Modenas Karisma 125

And majority of its shares were held by Kawasaki, Sojitz, Khazanah Nasional and DRB-HICOM. The Gurun factory was launched by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on 3 October 1996.

. The model is actually named after a Malaysian traditional weapon, Keris, though some motorcycle shops in the United Kingdom had mistakenly advertised the model to be named from the acronym of a famous American motorcycle racer, Kenny Roberts because Modenas had once built some racing motorcycles f… . The original model only uses drum brakes, but

The front disc brake model was launched, known as Kriss 2 (or Kriss 115 Sports in some countries). Powered by 111 cc Kawasaki-developed engines, Modenas Kriss becomes the best-selling motorcycle model in Malaysia. Modenas launched a small cruiser model based on the popular Kawasaki Eliminator series. This model is aimed for bikers who wish to own larger motorcycles that are based upon the style of American cruiser motorcycles but cannot afford to own them, due to very high duties on imported motorcycles place…

. However, unlike other Kriss variants, this model did not sell very well due to its outdated design.

Especially at the lights for newer, better looks.

. In August 2003, Modenas introduced three scooters, based on models produced by PGO Scooters of Taiwan.

All Kriss 110 variants have been phased out to make way for production of Kristar, leaving only Kriss 100 as the sole variant of Kriss. However, Modenas decided to bring back the Kriss 110 into production in August 2006 due to extremely high demand from the customers, which is known as Kriss 110SE.