New Stylish Shine by Honda

Here's a bit of an odd official note on the new Honda Shine. It certainly is more forthright than most to-be-made-public company documents (like press releases), and yet, the English is beautiful. I'm still reeling more than a fair bit from the arbitrary hypens, capitalization and the staunch refusal to expand the ampersands into proper 'ands'

In the pics, like the new Unicorn, the Shine does look better. I have no way of knowing so far whether Honda changed the gearing or sprocketing on the Shine to remove the rather heavy initial-mid bias and give the bike some much needed top end. That aside, say hello to the latest cosmetic upgrade...

Oh and lest I forget, when you do click on the photos of the official brochure note the following:

• Now with added style
• The cheerleaders and the frisky brass band
• Pink flowers?

Official note:

New Stylish Shine by Honda

HMSI launched its second motorcycle Shine with Kick start in April-May 2006 and with Self start in October 2006. Its performance is very well appreciated by customers and is evident from the fact that, Shine received "Customers Voice Award" & "Best Bike in 125cc class".

Today, the Indian Motorcycle market is changing very fast. Existing Shine could not meet Customers' expectations on Style and hence HMSI decided to come-up with new variant of its Motorcycle-Shine.

There are 4 variants viz. 1) Self Disc Alloy 2) Self Drum Alloy 3) Kick Drum Alloy & 4) Kick Drum Spoke. Along-with the advanced Honda engine with Optimax technology, Primary Kick, puncture resistant Tuff-up Tube & Ergotec design, the New Stylish Shine has following features.

• Alloy Wheels
• Single Tone colours
• New Graphics

It is targeted towards younger customers who want more style; but do not compromise on performance. It fulfills need of the customers to do more in life & gives them recognition in their groups/families instead of just show-off.

The New Stylish Shine, undoubtedly delivers the best performance in terms of Pick-up & Mileage besides offering a very smooth & comfortable ride.

Currently, Shine sells at 13000 Nos. average per month. With the New Stylish Shine, HMSI plans to increase this volume to 15500 Nos.

Ex-Showroom prices of the New Stylish Shine are as below.

Town	Ex-showroom	Price (Rs)
	Self Disc Alloy	Self Drum Alloy	Kick Drum Alloy	Kick Drum Spoke
Mumbai	50523.59	48531.00	46025.71	43638.72
Pune	48253.27	46337.38	43927.10	41631.78
Bangalore	48538.53	46641.60	43633.24	40988.19
Chennai	48295.00	46385.00	43412.00	40598.40
Hyderabad	48017.43	46120.18	43116.51	40500.42
Culcutta	48949.00	47052.00	44047.00	41226.73
Delhi	48313.73	46417.65	43408.82	40268.63

More Shine images from the Honda India Shine Home page