Husqvarna 250 Posts Highest Domestic Sales Yet

The India-made Husqvarna merchandise are poised for a gentle gross sales progress in each home in addition to export markets

With the extent of success the made-in-India KTM vary of bikes have been having fun with globally, it’s a no brainer for the corporate to increase this enterprise mannequin to its new Husqvarna medium displacement household as nicely. In spite of everything, they share their parts with their respective KTM counterparts. For Bajaj Auto, addition of one other premium model to its manufacturing portfolio comes as an enormous increase.

India-made Husqvarna bikes gross sales report

As of now, Bajaj Auto’s Chakan facility producers three Husqvarna fashions – 200, 250 and 401 – all of which is obtainable in each Vitpilen and Svartpilen avatars. Solely the 250 variants are on sale in India at present; however the Vitpilen 401 and Svartpilen 401 are slated to be launched later this year.

Launched in February 2020, the Husqvarna Vitpilen 250 and Svartpilen 250 are witnessing regular month-on-month gross sales progress within the home market publish lockdown. In August, the Swedish quarter-liter duo managed to clock 972 models in India as towards 725 models in July and 428 models in June. That is the best month-to-month gross sales posted by the Husqvarna bikes in India.

With bottle necks in manufacturing, provide chain and logistics clearing up, we anticipate the upward development to be maintained within the coming months as nicely. Although the Husqvarna’s are mechanically very carefully associated to the KTM Duke household, they create to desk a recent enchantment and distinctive styling.

Export efficiency

Similar to the compact Dukes and RCs, the corresponding Vitpilens and Svartpilens are being made in India for world consumption. So, exports are certain to finally overtake home gross sales however because of the worldwide pandemic, issues are nonetheless lukewarm on this regard.

The Husqvarna 401 which is predicated on the Duke 390 platform leads the export operations however in August, it witnessed a pointy decline. This may very well be attributed both to manufacturing constraint or logistical problem or each. Husqvarna exported a complete of 1,775 models final month in comparison with 1,778 and 1,996 models in July and June 2020 respectively.

Extra made-in-India Husqvarnas coming

Husqvarna is at present engaged on two large ticket electrical two wheelers for the worldwide market. The electric motorcycle will share its body, suspension, wheels and braking system with its medium displacement siblings whereas the E-01 electric scooter is more likely to be based mostly on Bajaj Chetak‘s structure.

So, it’s logical for Husqvarna to let Bajaj Auto deal with the manufacturing of those two merchandise in India. The Bajaj-KTM-Husqvarna combo positive appears to be like like a win-win-win components.