India, Nov. 21 -- The Maestro is a familiar name in the Indian scooter space, and this year Hero MotoCorp decided to capitalise on that and introduced its 125cc iteration. To make it stand out from the 125cc crowd, the company even added fuel injection to it, making it a segment-first.

The 124.6cc scooter develops 9.1bhp in this FI guise. At 10.2Nm, the torque rating remains the same as the carburetted trim. The Maestro Edge 125 surely feels quicker than its 110cc sibling, but it isn't quite as quick as some of the other 125cc offerings right off the line.

The Maestro clocked a lap time of 1:39.4 around the short loop of the BIC, a colossal six seconds more than the TVS Ntorq 125 that ranked in the top three last year. That said, the Maes...