Pheww! Where and how do we start, we are feeling restless in bringing this news to our viewers. After liter class insanities from Japanese majors Yamaha and Honda, Suzuki joins the bandwagon with their liter class heavenly handsome GSX-R 1000 and the most practical super street bike in India, Bandit 1250S. Suzuki has launched these beauties for us, the Indians. It must be known that Suzuki already has the once world’s fastest production commercial motorcycle, the big daddy of them all, GSX-R 1300 popularly known as Hayabusa in the Indian market along with the mighty Intruder.
With the inclusion of these bikes, Suzuki now have 4 superbikes in India- Hayabusa, Intruder M1800R, Bandit 1250S and GSX-R 1000, the most on offer from a single manufacturer. The full faired liter class wonder from Suzuki is a race track oriented bike which directly competes with bikes of the likes of R1s, CBRs, ZXRs etc on the tracks. On the other hand semi faired Bandit is more of a street machine and highway tourer which weighs a hefty 250 kilograms on the tipping scale and is adored by stunt maniacs the most.
The GSXR produces a maddening power output of 191 hp @ 12000 rpm from its 999cc engine. On the other hand is the torque monster Bandit which produces around 100 hp of power output at 7900 rpm and torque of 108 Nm at an amazingly low rpm of 3750 with its 1255cc engine.
The hooligan Bandit will be available in two color tones- Metallic Gleam Gray and Pearl Nebular Black. GSX-R 1000 will be made available in two color combos as well, Glass Splash White/Metallic Mat Stellar Blue and Solid Black/ Metallic Mat Titanium Silver. Now comes the interestingly good part. Both the bikes are kept at competitive prices. GSX-R 1000 will retail for 12.75 lakhs and the Bandit would be yours at an unbelievable price tag of 8.5 lakhs ONLY! (Both prices ex showroom Pune). The Yamahas and Hondas sell their liter class racers R1 and Fireblade at above 14 lakh INR. With such a luring price tag, Bandit now becomes the cheapest and, hence, the most affordable superbike in India beating the 1000cc Honda CB1000R which sells at 10.21 lakhs (ex showroom Mumbai). As we hear, bookings have already started and do we see a few of you dropping and heading straight to a Suzki showroom right away?
- Saad Khan
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Wish suzuki can bring 180,200,250cc bikes with the above two super bikes kind of design anyways suzuki always sell bikes that have got best value for money
I have a Suzuki R600 and I love it, but i have to admit is far from the beauty in this article. Sweet, to bad I cannot afford it.
i own a second hand GSX-R 1000 2001,
i wish i could buy bandit..
hmmm not any soon i think
One Point to be added.
Though all Superbikes are electronically controlled not to exceed 190Mph. The Gixxer 1000 is the Fastest of all 1000CCs even the Ducati 1098 cannot match its Acceleration. But the only Drawback is Handling where the R1 wins hands down.
Suzuki Bring some thing more for the mass commuter segment
I would be happy if suzuki make some good bikes in india in the range of 150cc to 250cc. why can’t they offer products like fz or r15 or apache.
i wonder your market share is not upto viewable. i think your are missing good r & d team, marketing team and specically you have appointed dealers who cannot execute new bikes as all the dealers appointed are new to towns. They have to study the town, the people and then sell your product. Pl appoint atleast local peoples with service centre immediately apart from dealers. Other wise you could not catch the market in any town please. If anybody from higher official could call me and put it in conference calls and here in a single stroke my findings about suzuki after i spend many days and lot of money. my mobile no. 9842322533