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New Sportsbike Hayabusa from Suzuki in India

uzuki planning to launch its sports motorbike Hayabusa for the sport bike fanatic in the India. The latest model is also named as GSX 1300R which was distinctively driven by Mr. John Abraham in ‘Dhoom’ movie.

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The bike could hit the top speed of 397 km/h in the year 2004 but its present making has limited speed up to 299 km/h.
The bike is powered by 1340cc engine in line four-engine which would price up to enormous Rs 11 lakh. This makes the industry drop their expectation on number in country. This motorbike will be launched in the 1st week of September but its retail cost would be high due to its big 105% import duty.
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The demand for such sporty and big motorbikes is in fact more of hype. Cumulatively such bikes sell just about 400 units/annum.
India is not the place for these bikes. We don’t have the roads like they have in developed countries for them and it is not fun to ride them at say 70 km per hour. We are nevertheless launching the Hayabusa because it will showcase our strength as a bike manufacturer. Moreover these are already available in the grey market so we might as well legalise them.

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