Honda motorcycle launches first scooter in Indonesia

Japanese motorcycle-maker Honda has launched its first scooter in Indonesia to grab the country's scooter market now dominated by Yamaha, local press reported Friday.

The Honda Vario automatic-transmission scooter was unveiled Thursday with initial sales target of 20,000 units per month, reported Bisnis Indonesia.

The local unit PT Astra Honda Motor puts a price tag of 12.5 million rupiah (around 1,350 U.S. dollars) for the standard model.

Scooter grabs only a tiny share of 3 percent of last year's motorcycle sales.

But in the first half of the year, the share rose to 6 percent of the total motorcycle sales of 1.81 million units.

Honda, relying on moped models, controls above 50 percent of total motorcycle sales in Indonesia.

Source: Xinhua