Hero Honda Passion accounted remarkable success
Published On Nov 12, 2010 12:00 AM By Neeta Guptafor Hero MotoCorp Passion
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Hero Honda Passion becomes the second best seller of the world with its style and affordability accounting a perpetual success over 10 years i.e. from 2001 to 2010. The company promises to keep updating its products time to time and keeping the same attitude has made available to its customers four different variants of the ever favourite, the Hero Honda Passion.
Hero Honda has been facing tremendous success with its products ranging from the cheapest to the most expensive assuring the customers with latest and the most belligerent products maintaining a standard quality. The bike was basically designed keeping in mind the needs of the working class but no compromises were made with the looks and quality of the bike which has been the reason behind tremendous success of the bike.
A brief desrciption is been given below about the variants:
Hero Honda Passion [2001]
The first ever Passion of the company was introduced with an engine capacity of 97 cc which was to produce a maximum power of 7.5 PS @ 8000 RPM. The bike came with a tag line “When Style matters”. The bike was created to provide the users with a change from company's earlier model, the Hero Honda Splendor. A chrome finishing to the body panels, headlights, tail lights and a new profiled seat given to the bike attracted a huge crowd.
Hero Honda Passion Plus [2003]
The first modified version of the model came after a gap of three years with a 'Plus' added to its name. The Plus variant showed changes to the body graphics being an alloy rear grab rail attached to it with clear indicators and a new silencer heat shield. Also the Hero Honda Passion Plus came with a new tag line i.e. “When Style matters More”.
Hero Honda Passion Plus [2007]
Being the engine and tag line same for the second modification of the bike, it had been accomplished with new color schemes that explores the bike with black paint over the alloy wheels and engine covers. Also a small change with the placement of logo was done to bike i.e. the logo “Passion Plus” was now placed on the tank of the bike which was previously placed on the side panels of the bike.
Hero Honda Passion Pro [2008]
The third variant which has been discontinued now came with a slight modification to the power generation that increased from 7.5 to 7.8 PS @ 7500 RPM. The bike with a changed name was given a new tag line being “Ab sirf Style bolega”. The bike now was to possess an exhaust pipe furnished with black matt unlike stainless steel as before. Also the version was equipped with a power start which was the first time by the company.