Bajaj Auto's Austrian partner KTM is eyeing increasing production out of India by over three-fold to 100,000 units as it seeks to position India as an important export market. In an exclusive interview with CNBC-TV18's Ronojoy Banerjee, KTM's CEO Stefan Pierer said that the company is also eying setting up new assembly lines in Columbia and Thailand as it seeks to hit total sales of 200,000 units globally in the coming three-four years.
Pierer says there are two platforms. One is the smaller engine platform, 125cc upto 200cc and then it is the platform 250cc upto 390cc. “We have four different displacements. Based on those four different displacements naked bike already is there, it is the Duke, the second one is the RC family, it is the full faired and the third one is also in the pipeline it is the Enduro dual purpose,” he adds.
Pierer also mentions that the KTM activities are all around the world. “We have one in Malaysia, Thailand is in the pipeline, Columbia. So, it is more than an exporting hub,” he adds.
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