Without a doubt, the Honda Activa is one of the most popular scooters in India and the world, and now the Japanese car maker has set a new record. Honda’s iconic Activa has achieved a milestone of 1.5 crore unit cumulative sales, and is India’s first scooter to reach this landmark. Celebrating this feat, Mr. Minoru Kato, President and CEO, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India, rolled out the landmark 1,50,00,000th Activa from the assembly line of Honda’s scooter only plant in Gujarat. Launched in 2001, Activa sold 55,000 units in its debut year. In just 3 years, Activa became the leader in automatic scooter segment. By 2012-13, Activa sales had crossed the 10 lakh mark annually but was still behind India’s largest selling two-wheeler (a motorcycle at that time) by a sizable gap of 8.73 lakh units. The situation reversed in the next 4 years as Activa sales more than doubled from 12.05 lakh units in 2012-13 to 27.59 lakh units in 2016-17. For the first time in 17 years, the Activa – an automatic scooter – has overtaken all motorcycles to become India’s Number One selling two-wheeler in 2016-17 and leads by a comfortable margin of 2.09 lakh units over its nearest competition.
