Bajaj Pulsar Range Gets Costlier

Bajaj is known to price its bikes competitively at launch and increase the prices slowly over the months. We’ve seen this with the Bajaj Dominar 400. Fortunately for the Pulsar range, the price hike isn’t all that much to affect the customers’ buying decision. Interestingly, Bajaj hasn’t hiked the price of the Pulsar 125 Neon front drum brake-equipped variant. It continues to be priced at Rs 70,995 (ex-showroom, Delhi). This variant is the most affordable motorcycle under the Pulsar lineup and it is likely that Bajaj might’ve wanted to keep it accessible. That is probably why Bajaj has left it untouched in terms of pricing.

Bajaj’s Pulsar lineup was well-known to have extremely competitive pricing, but with all these recent price hikes, they seem to be losing their value. Moreover, none of these BS6-compliant models get anything new in terms of features. Thus the premium of around Rs 3,000 to Rs 11,000 (depending on the model) over their respective BS4-compliant counterparts isn’t really justified. What do you guys think?