Thursday, January 22, 2009

Honda Wave 110i is launched

Honda Wave 110i is lauched and is launched as a scooter in Thailand. The launch of Wave 100i yet again proves the leadership of Honda in the motorcycle market. Wave 110i should not be looked as a youth scooter as it appeals, but indeed it is designed as a family scooter and has several features to appeal families, the company says.

The looks of the Wave 110i scooter are first of all very trendy and when spotted on roads could be eye turner for sure. To me, Wave 110i is more fit to be called as motoscooter than a scooter. The new commuter scooter, Wave 110i is designed by incorporating cutting-edge technology of Honda; the PFM-FI technology (Programmed Fuel Injection) which is an electronic supported fuel injection system, delivering appropriate amounts of fuel for each cylinder. The new suits smaller motorcycles and smaller displacement scooters. This PGM-FI technology is a registered trademark of Honda Motor Co., Ltd and this ensures better control of fuel combustion through accurate amounts of fuel. It also means you can start the engine super fast and the scooter delivers more power (25% more than its forerunner Wave 100). The emission loads is also reduced, thereby giving greater fuel economy (18% greater fuel economy as compared to its predecessor Wave 100). The scooter runs on a 4-stroke engine and comes with either drum brakes or the disc brakes depending on the variant you choose (about 3 variants to choose from). Wave 110i is available in 8 colors and priced at 34,000 Thai Bhats. Honda aims to sell about 4 lakh units of Wave 110i every year and seeing success of Wave 125cc it doesn’t look impossible. Thanks to also the PGM-Fi technology which should boost the sales of new Wave 110i.

Probably, if Wave 110i scooter is a success there in Thailand, we can hope to see it foray into the Indian scooter market as well. For now, its all waiting.

2 comments:

Aditi said...

Nice look... Hope it comes to India as well

Aruna Sreeram said...

I didn't quite like the looks. But the technolgy enticed me. It resembles more or less the Bajaj M80 and certainly I will give it off. But Honda is all capable of kick butting any rival and didnt we see how it almost replaced Kinetic from the market?