Kinetic rolls out gearless scooter

Kinetic today launched a gearless scooter, Kinetic 4S, its first four-stroke offering. With 115cc engine, the company claimed that new 4S will give highest mileage among its category at 60 km per litre.

"We are aiming at selling around 50,000 4S within a year. We have tailormade the new product to ensure a perfect fit for everyone. 4S is the first gearless scooter in the country having variomatic transmission, push button and electric start facility," said Sulajja Firodia Motwani, joint managing director, Kinetic Engineering Ltd.

"The scenario of mega bike sales in the country is going to end soon. As per our estimates, the two-wheerler market in urban areas soon will be captured by gearless scooters and motorcycles will have to go mainly to rural areas.

She said that the two-wheeler market in urban areas will be soon captured by gearless scooters and motorcycles will have to go mainly to rural areas.

''We have done an extensive market research and found that the lifestyle in urban area is changing rapidly. People have started looking at a vehicle providing comfort, convenience, fuel efficiency, load carriage capacity and which is cost effective too. No bike can perform all these functions, but a scooter fits the bill. So we can say that gearless scooters will be the new face of the two-wheeler industry in coming years," said Motwani.

About Italjet scooters to be introduced by Kinetic soon, she said, "We are going to bring seven Italjet models from Italy. We are expecting to launch the first 160cc scooter 'Millennium' in January 2006 and the second model in June. We are going to start the taste launch of 'Millennium' in select five cities with a target to sell 35,000 units during first year. We are also planning to export Italjet scooters to Europe and later to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. We have opened 40 stores named as 'Kinetic Automatics' in top 30 cities and we are going to distribute Italjet scooters through these exclusive showrooms."