The Sales Comparison of Royal Enfield 650 with Ninja 300, KTM 390, Jawa

Royal Enfield has become one of the brands that continue to note remarkable success with their twin-cylinder motorbikes. Introduced in November 2018, the Royal Enfield twins has been continuously posting exciting sales figures since launch. Sales that stood at 325 units in the month of November 2018 reached 1,445 in the month of February and 1,700 unit in the last March.

Sales of the RE Continental GT and Interceptor 650 stood at 2,014 units is 2019 April. This is their highest monthly sales ever. This is much ahead of competitors like the KTM 390 Duke since they managed to sell only 507 units while TVS Apache RR 310 sold 183 units in the month of April 2019. It was even amongst rivals in the twin cylinder section where sales of the Royal Enfield 650 Twins saw outstanding outcomes. Sales of Yamaha YZF-R3 stood at only 40units in April while Kawasaki Ninja 300 of which only 90 units were sold.

The aspects, which contributed to the remarkable success of the Royal Enfield Continental GT and Interceptor 650 are legacy, power, usability, and of course, price. Besides the best Royal Enfield bikes till date, these two motorcycles are the value for money scheme in their category that has helped it in gaining the numbers. Below is a detailed sales chart that compares the sales of RE 650 with Bajaj Dominar, Jawa sales, TVS Apache 310, Kawasaki Ninja 300, Yamaha R3, Harley Davidson 750, KTM Duke 390.

	RE 650	RR310	N300	D400	D390	R3	Str 750	Jawa
Nov – 18	325	132	118	170	239	25	209	8
Dec – 18	629	185	220	24	106	10	4	19
Jan – 19	1,069	281	186	64	279	38	0	44
Feb – 19	1,445	246	135	329	289	20	0	130
Mar – 19	1,700	279	165	350	470	42	72	54
Apr – 19	2,014	183	95	1,346	507	40	212	NA
Total	7,182	1,306	919	2,283	1,890	175	497	255

 

Jawa has not released the numbers of sales for April 2019.

RE 350 is the bestselling Royal Enfield bike that registers about 35,000 units sales each month. In terms of pricing, the RE Interceptor 650 is estimated at 2.48 lakhs whereas the Continental GT 650 is valued at Rs 2.57 lakhs. And these rates make them more affordable in comparison to the Kawasaki Ninja 300 priced at Rs.2.98 lakhs, the Yamaha YZF-R3 at Rs 3.5 lakhs, and KTM 390 Duke priced at Rs 2.45 lakhs.