Kinetic Engineering Limited is an Indian automotive manufacturer. The company was founded in the year 1972 by H. K. Firodia. Today it is an automotive component manufacturer which formerly sold two-wheelers under the brand names Kinetic Honda and later Kinetic Motors. It introduced the Kinetic Luna moped which sold well domestically and was exported extensively to Argentina, Brazil, Sri Lanka, and the United States.
Later Kinetic Engineering formed a joint venture with Honda Motor Company to introduce Kinetic Honda scooters, which had electric start and gearless transmissions. Kinetic and Honda parted ways in 1998 when the Firodias bought the majority stake of the joint venture from Honda.
In December 2000 Kinetic launches the Challenger 100 motorcycle in India.
In October 2001, Kinetic, together with its South Korean partner Hyosung, began production of the GF125 motorcycle, assembled at the Pune plant using components imported from South Korea.[1] This model would also be exported to foreign markets by Hyosung.[2]