Honda offers a range of great scooters in the Indian two-wheeler market. Moving ahead with the Indian demand of high fuel efficiency along with great contemporary styling, Honda is endeavoring to produce great trendy and fuel efficient scooters for this market.
Honda has recently tweaked the mechanical specifications of its scooters with 109cc power in order to offer superb fuel efficiency and performance. Honda also claims to be offering the outstanding mileage of 60 km per liter for all its 3 popular scooters, namely the Activa, Dio and Aviator. Let us take a look at the new 2013 Honda Activa scooter to see how this two-wheeler achieves this amazing fuel efficiency.
The all new 2013 Honda Activa HET retains the same good looks of the Activa. The singular design addition that this scooter has received is its small logo on its body’s left side panel in order to distinguish it from its previous model. The HET logo is a representative of the Japanese manufacturer’s Eco Technology which is responsible in making this scooter most fuel efficient. Nevertheless, is same advanced technology is endowed on the other two Honda Scooter Dio and Aviator as well making these awesome threesome the most fuel economical automatic scooters in the country.
To achieve this outstanding mileage however, Honda has not incorporated any new component or any totally new technology. All the company did is enhancements of its existing components and technology. Some efficient tweaking has really helped the company to highly increase the efficiency of its scooters’ mechanical specifications and thus improve the fuel efficiency to a great deal. The technical specification enhancements have also greatly improved the combustion. This has been done with the help of a new spark plug and an enhanced inlet port. The inclusion of a new offset crank and improved lighter materials has resulted in the reduction of friction, while a low pressure piston ring along with enhanced bearing seal oil have also helped in the process.
The company has also optimized the ratio and mechanical specifications of the Vmatic drive system. With all these changes and tweaking Honda has really made the immense fuel efficiency possible for its Activa. These changes could not improve the power or the torque figures though and these remain unchanged.
The all new 2013 Honda Activa scooter also offers the same superior ride and handling as that of its preceding model. However, the new model does offer more, as its smoothness has enhanced a lot due to its revised transmission.
The real magic obviously lies in the mileage figure, which has considerably increased. The 2013 Honda Activa offers a city mileage of 55.55 km per liter and a highway mileage of 67.42 km per liter respectively.
The new Honda HET offers an outstanding combined fuel efficiency of 58.51 km per liter. The overall performance of the scooter has improved as well. It is tagged at Rs.47,188 (ex-showroom Delhi), thus making this scooter a great deal which offers the highest fuel efficiency in the two-wheeler segment in the Indian market.
