26 May 2009

Leaders are the same... (2)

Similarities b/w Hero Honda and Airtel...

Just like the last time, i told u some striking similarities between HH and Maruti Suzuki, this time I m gonna tell u some similarities between HH and Airtel.

(1)Market Position- They both are the market leaders.

(2)Share Holders- Another company Honda have some share in Hero honda, Just like the vodafone have some share in Bharti Airtel.

(3)Foreign Competitors- Above companies(Honda and Vodafone) which hold few shares are,foreign based and they are direct competitors for HH and Bharti Airtel respectively.

(4)MS Dhoni- MS Dhoni is the brand ambassador of their competition i.e. TVS and Aircel.

(5)Customer Base- Both HH and Airtel have the customer base of above one crore.

(6)Rivals- The name of both of their "real" rivals starts from "B" which are now in pathetic position and they used to dominate the market in past. They are BSNL and Bajaj.

Bike = Bull !!! (Hero Honda Hunk)

I am the leader, I am the boss, I can do anything and you have to accept... sorry, tolerate it. Thats what Hero Honda thinks. If you don't believe me, than just take a look at their ads. Whenever I watch any of their crap ads, I am like...#%@*!!! As you've read my review on Glamour ad (if not, than u better read it first) ;-)

Before starting, I wanna share one more thing with you. I somewhere read that TV ads of Hero Honda are getting rave reviews. (Here I go again) Say what? Rave Reviews? Dude, whoever posted that he/she was ill...I mean mentally. Tell me, where the hell are you guys are getting rave reviews of your ads? Am I living in third world? This or That ad of Hero Honda is awesome,I never saw that kind of ad, have any one of you heard that??? But I've heard about the Pulsarmania ad, which was...SUPERB(no, not skoda superb). HH guys,once just once read any of my review on your ads. You will sure quit the job of Hero Honda. Atleast Hero Honda always gets rave reviews about the products. But c'mon, not the ads.

So after few and quite interesting trailors or spoilers or teasers or...whatever they call them, there comes the ad. The ad of the product which will help them to survive above 125cc segment (thats what they think). In your dreams Hero Honda. The customer of this product is mainly youth, and what we think, is different from the customers of 100c bikes. We just don't look at the logo of the company, and blindly buy the bike no matter how high the price is!!! Half lakh, yes just look at this way, most of the people spend half a lakh, nearly 50,000 Rs. for a mere 100cc bike???

Now back to the topic... In this ad, a guy is riding the bike through some mountain area or whatever. Just look at the helmet.Is this the kind of helmet u wear while riding a 150cc bike???
Anyway,no big deal till now. Suddenly the guy saw a group of bulls in his way. Normal people like us would have changed the route or just waited for the bulls to move away from there. But this guy, this maniac, this guy from other world,with his bike "Transforms" into another big bull that scares away all the other bulls. Are you a son of magician or Hero Honda Hunk have a button somewhere that transforms the bike into a bull??? This shit is not finished here. They have launched a so called Special Edition which have a logo of standing bull on its rear two legs(can't stop laughing). And with both red alloys... That reminded me of CBZ-Xtreme with rear red wheel and front black wheel which is a huge hit among various circus in our country. Yes, that bike just favours the character of clown with one red and another black alloy wheel(no offence to the buyers of that bike). This ad of Special Edition Hunk is still on air with minor changes done to the original ad. They should have transformed the Special edition hunk into the bull... with red legs, a red racing stripe along his back and red horns. LMAO.

Anyway, I think HH guys have somehow heard about my reviews because their latest ad of Hero Honda Passion Pro is nice. I really like this ad. No crap, no super powers, no non-sense, just the right projection of the product with its features. There, you got it. See HH, its not that hard. So stop torturing us with your horrible ads and make some good ads.Believe it or not, I own a CBZ(the old one) and few other members of my family own other Hero Honda bikes. So this proves I am not a paid guy from Bajaj or any other company which loves to criticize ads, price and products of Hero honda. But here's another thing that I am soon going to sell off my CBZ and buy a Yamaha :D

01 May 2009

Leaders are the same... (1)

Maruti Suzuki and Hero Honda, both companies are totally different but according to me they are very similar to each other. Let me explain this...

1) Leaders- Both industries are lead by these JV's i.e. Joint Ventures of Hero Honda and Maruti Suzuki.

2)Rivals- Both leaders have desi rivals against them and they both are far behind because of quality issues.Hero Honda's rival is Bajaj, Maruti Suzuki's rival is Tata.

3)Rivals 2- They both have another desi rival which is ahead of them in another segment. (I think) Hero Honda's desi rival is TVS which leads scooty segment and Maruti Suzuki's desi rival is Mahindra & Mahindra which leads SUV segment by scorpio.

4)Honda- This company is the common competitor for both.

5)Cross Competitions- Mahindra and Mahindra has entered in two wheeler segment by acquiring Kinetic motors and Bajaj is soon going to launch cheap four wheeler with the help of Renault-Nissan.

6)Survival- Their first desi rivals are surviving in the industry by many forms(models) of only one product. Bajaj is surviving by pulsar 150,180,200 and 220 and recently launched xcd 135 which bajaj says is inspired by pulsar. Tata is surviving by Indica, Xeta, Indigo, Marina, CS, and the recently launched Indica Vista.

7)Foreign Competitions- Both are badly hit by foreign competitions. Hero Honda by Yamaha and Honda,Maruti Suzuki by Hyundai and Honda.

8)Support- Both are known for their widely spread customer support and service centers.

8) Last Name- Maruti Suzuki has the name Suzuki which is a competitor of Hero Honda, and Hero Honda has the name Honda which is a competitor of Maruti Suzuki. ;-)

Apart from this, they both have major differences-
New Launches- Hero Honda is somewhat or very lazy in launching new models, this company believes in upgrading its existing models but Maruti Suzuki constantly launches super cool new models.

Value for money- Maruti Suzuki provides value for money for its cars, whereas Hero Honda makes a fool out of people by selling small 100cc bikes for a whooping 45-47,000 Rs. More to come...