About Kinetic : Our History

Kinetic has become synonymous with pioneering activities, in the Indian automobile industry. Kinetic pioneered the concept of personalized transportation in India, with the launch of Kinetic Luna, in 1972. Since then, the brand Kinetic Luna has become generic with mopeds.

Kinetic also takes the credit of revolutionizing the scooter industry in India. It was the first to introduce a gearless scooter with advanced features like TLAD suspension, auto choke, auto fuel cork, etc thus offering convenience and comfort to the earlier hassled scooter customer.

Kinetic now has the distinction of being India’s only two-wheeler company to offer a full range of vehicles which range right from mopeds, step-thrus, scooterettes, scooters to motorcycles.

1964	Foundry and Plant of Jayhind Industries set up.
1970	Kinetic Engineering Ltd, incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing 2 wheelers.
1974	Jayahind Sciaky, set up in collaboration with Sciaky Intertechnique S.A. of Switzerland.
1980	Kinetic group joins hands with Twentieth Century Finance Corp. And Integrated Finance Ltd., to float Joint Venture Finance companies to finance Kinetic 2 wheelers.
1981	ZF Steering Gear India Ltd. Launched. (Kinetic enters into collaboration with Zahnradfabrik Friedchshafen A.G. of West Germany).
1984	Kinetic Group enters into collaboration with Honda Motor Company of Japan and a new company Kinetic Honda Motor Ltd. is born.
1996	Kinetic group takes over Integrated Kinetic Fincap Finance Ltd and the company is renamed as Kinetic Lease and Finance ltd.
1996	Kinetic collaborates with Hyundai Corporation of South Korea to form a new company - Kinetic Transportation Products Ltd - to manufacture elevators, escalators and Auto parking systems with the latest state of the art VVVF technology.
1997	Kinetic group take over Twentieth Century Kinetic Finance and the company is now renamed as Kinetic Fincap Ltd.
1998	History is created as Kinetic acquires major stakes in Kinetic Honda Motors Ltd.
1998	Kinetic Communications Limited set up in technology & license agreement with Daewoo Electronics Limited of South Korea, for manufacturing trading and marketing of Colour Monitors for PC's.
1999	Kinetic Motor Company Ltd. is formally incorporated.
2000	Kinetic begins building product portfolio and over the next few years, makes a strong entry into every segment of the motorcycles industry
2001	Kinetic strikes alliance with Korean two wheeler maker Hyosung Motors which over the next few years brings to India revolutionary motorcycles such as the four valve engined GF, the super sportsbike Comet and the cruiser Aquila
2002	Kinetic launches 4-stroke scooter Nova which goes on to win scooter of the year awards from ICICI bank - Overdrive, from Business Standard Motoring and also the Design excellence award in automobile design from National Institute of Design - Businessworld
2004	Kinetic strikes alliance with Italjet Moto Spa from Italy, acquires production lines and complete distribution rights to seven bestselling scooter designs, chalks out a plan to revamp the two wheeler segment in India
2005	Kinetic enters auto component industry for manufacture of engineering components and tool engineering for domestic as well as international companies