So, 2025 has arrived, and we have two “brand-new” bikes. One is the Yamaha YBR 125G with its long-awaited Mango Yellow color. The other is a Honda CG125 in a fresh Blue color. Let’s see how “innovative” these changes really are.
Mango Yellow Color of YBR125G
Starting with Yamaha, the YBR 125G Mango Yellow, introduced in September 2024, was touted as a bold step forward. After seven years of waiting, fans of the YBR finally got… a new color. No engine upgrades, no advanced features, and not even a tiny tweak to the design. Just a bright Mango Yellow paint job slapped onto the same bike. Yamaha’s marketing team deserves credit for hyping a paint job as if they’d reinvented the wheel. If “innovation” means changing the color after nearly a decade, then sure, Yamaha, you nailed it.
Let’s not forget the cherry on top: the Yamaha YBR 125G Mango Yellow comes with a price tag of 485k PKR. Yes, nearly half a million rupees for a bike that hasn’t had a single mechanical or design upgrade since 2016. At this point, it feels like you’re paying for the privilege of riding a mango-colored time capsule.
Blue Year of CG125
On the other hand, Honda has taken a more straightforward route for the CG125. Atlas Honda saw that Yamaha was making new color changes by just sliding the hue slider on Photoshop; it became a matter of ego on Atlas, so they also changed the red color of CG into blue in Photoshop and introduced the all-new blue color on 1st January 2025. They’re calling it a “New Year Gift,” but let’s be honest—it’s the same old CG125 with the same engine, same design, and same legendary vibrations that could probably shake loose a few bolts. The only thing new is the paint, and yet it’s being marketed as if Honda has gifted Pakistan a technological marvel.
Gifting Pakistani’s CG 125 Blue in the new year is priced at 234k PKR. Yes, over two lakh rupees for what is essentially a 90s machine proudly stuck in a time loop.
Design Science of Yamaha
Starting with Yamaha’s Mango Yellow YBR 125G. After seven years of brainstorming, they finally decided to go with a shade of yellow that looked like a mango cart on a hot summer day. Bold choice? Maybe. But the real icing on the cake is the sticker design. The combination of black and orange stripes screams, “We tried, but not too hard.” It’s almost as if Yamaha hired someone to quickly doodle on the side panels five minutes before the deadline. Truly cutting-edge design—if you’re stuck in 2010.
Design Science of Honda
Now, let’s move to Honda’s Blue CG125. Ah, the CG125, the “legend” of the roads, now dressed in blue. Not just any blue, mind you—it’s a shade so generic it could easily be mistaken for a school notebook cover. And those stickers? They look like someone opened Microsoft Paint, picked the first zigzag pattern they could find, and said, “This will do.” The bright yellow Honda wing logo adds just the right touch of clashing chaos, making sure no one misses the fact that this is indeed a CG125 in a different color.
Conclusion
Both bikes take the concept of innovation to an entirely new low. Yamaha stretched their creativity to mango-inspired levels, while Honda decided that blue was the way to make their decades-old design “fresh.” The stickers on both bikes feel like an afterthought, designed not to inspire but to remind you that these are still the same machines underneath, just wearing a new coat of paint. In the end, these aren’t color schemes—they’re color schemes pretending to be upgraded.
