The Indian arm of the famous Japanese automaker, Suzuki, has started the assembling of India bound Hayabusa at its Manesar situated production facility. Suzuki Hayabusa, which is also known as GSX1300R, is the first superbike that assembled in India and being sold as a Completely Knocked Down Unit. The CKD built Hayabusa is INR 2 lakh cheaper than current CBU Hayabusa in the Indian market and priced INR 14 lakh (Ex-showroom, Delhi). Now this Superbike is holding the price tag nearer 5 lakh lesser than its primary rival Kawasaki Ninja ZX14R and it will definitely be a big mess for the Ninja ZX14R in the Indian motoring market in this genre.
Also the news around the corner is, India made Hayabusa is fabricated with two additional components- front license plate holder and a saree guard. The Indian government has made these both items compulsory for increasing safety for the female pillion, wearing saree and for the registration numbers displayed at a glance on both ends of the motorcycle. However, the Japan made Hayabusa model did not carry these additional ones.
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Optically, the saree guard is a grille which is bolted in two parts on to the chassis and below the exhaust. The second piece of the guard looks plain silly, but really good for the unpredicted event on to that powerful and performance beast which can reaches to 0-100 kmph in just 2.74seconds. The license plate holder is concatenated with the front forks and made a loop on the front fender on which the registration number plate mounted. The mounted number plate completely ruins the appearance and also slightly resists the front movement of the motorcycle, but it’s necessary to follow as per our traffic rules.
On powering aspects, India made Hayabusa gets power from the similar 1340cc, inline-4-cylinder, liquid-cooled, four stroke engine which clocked 197bhp at 10,100 rpm and torque of 138.7Nm at 7600 rpm. The claimed top speed of the motorcycle is 200 Kmph.