The Indian auto industry’s most definitive awards, recognising the country’s best car and motorcycle of the year are back. The movers and shakers who took away the coveted awards this year are Hyundai Creta and Yamaha YZF-R3. In this article we will talk about the Indian Motorcycle of the Year 2016. The Indian Motorcycle of the Year (IMOTY) is the recognition of the finest and best performing motorcycle launched in the last one year.
Dr. Raghupati Singhania, Chairman & Managing Director, JK Tyre & Industries Limited, Bob Rupani, Chairman ICOTY 2016 and Aspi Bhathena, Chairman, IMOTY 2016, presented the Indian Motorcycle of the Year trophy to the Yamaha Motor Company on behalf of the jury of IMOTY 2016.
This year, the final short list of contenders saw a dozen cars and motorcycles battling it out for two of the automobile industry’s highest honours. The chosen ones were then put through a further round of assessment by the jury members at Lonavla on 4th December 2015. After a strenuous session of evaluation followed by voting, the top three contenders for the Indian Motorcycle of the Year awardwere the Yamaha R3, Benelli TNT 300 and Honda CBR650F. The nominated motorcycles were judged on various parameters such as price, fuel economy, styling, comfort, safety, performance, practicality, and technical innovation, value for money and suitability for Indian riding conditions.
Aspi Bhatena, Chairman, IMOTY 2016 commented on the winning motorcycle, “IMOTY 2016 has been one of the toughest awards for the Jury in the last eight years as we had lot of very good motorcycles launched during 2015 but most of them were priced on the high side unlike 2014 where the Harley Davidson street 750 was priced at Rs 4.5 lakhs.”
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