HONDA GRAZIA new Rival SUZUKI URGMAN Street premium maxi-scooter launch soon

Suzuki has developed a premium scooter for India, and it’s called the Burgman Street. The Burgman is a nameplate associated with Suzuki’s flagship scooter family and, currently, Suzuki produces one in 125, 200, 250, 400 and 600cc guises for international markets. This is the first time the Burgman brand will come to India and it will also develop the Burgman Street scooter indigenously to cater to the premium scooter segment. 

The Burgman Street will be the first maxi-scooter to go on sale in India since the Kinetic Blaze. It will be a feature-rich scooter and is expected to offer, among other things, a fully digital instrument cluster, a telescopic fork, a disc brake at the front-end, a multi-function key slot, generous underseat storage, a 12V charging socket, tubeless tyres and an LED tail-lamp. The Burgman range, internationally, has focused on comfort more than a sporty intent and the  Street is expected to do the same in our market. The images suggest that the Burgman Street won’t be running excessively fat tyres but the rim size at the rear does appear to be quite large and could be a 14-inch unit, so far only seen on the Aprilia SR 150.

Typical of the Burgman family, the Street, too, will be elaborately styled and we expect to see a unique front-end thanks to a large apron and an unusual windscreen. The seat, going by Burgman family traits, should be wide and comfortable with a pronounced step between the rider and pillion pads.The Street also appears to share its mirrors with the Suzuki Gixxer and the exhaust, too, appears to have a stylish shroud. 

We expect the Suzuki Burgman Street to be priced around the Rs 70,000 mark where it will compete with the Aprilia SR150. 

If Suzuki goes with a 150cc motor on the Burgman Street, it’ll have to eventually add ABS as new government regulations mandate ABS for all two wheelers with engine capacities of over 125cc. A 125cc engine means that Suzuki can get away by adding CBS or a combi-braking system, which is already seen on a range of Honda automatic scooters sold here. We’ll know more such details after the actual at the Expo.