The Winner R and Exciter 155 VVA are the only two manual-clutch sport underbones left in Vietnamese showrooms, and the buying decision usually starts with performance and styling. This guide compares the part buyers skip: what each bike costs to own, using only figures published on the official Honda Vietnam and Yamaha Vietnam pages (both recorded in our model database, retrieved 2026-09-23).
Purchase price
Honda lists the Winner R at 46,360,000 VND. Yamaha’s page showed the Exciter 155 VVA limited ABS Monster version at 55,200,000 VND. List prices vary with version and over time — confirm current showroom pricing with a dealer — but at the recorded figures the Exciter commands a meaningful premium.
Fuel
This is where the gap widens. Honda’s page lists the Winner R at 2.59 L/100 km under the UDC method (with the page noting a method change from the previously listed 1.98 L/100 km), and the Exciter 155 VVA at 2.07 L/100 km. Over a year of heavy riding — say 15,000 km — that difference is roughly 130 litres of petrol. Real-world consumption varies with riding style, but the Exciter’s smaller-capacity-but-modern VVA engine is genuinely the cheaper one to feed, litre for litre. Tanks are close: 4.5 litres on the Winner, 5.4 on the Exciter, so range also favours the Yamaha.
Oil and consumables
Honda publishes engine oil capacities for the Winner R of 1.1 L at drain and 1.3 L at overhaul — slightly more oil per change than commuter underbones (0.7 to 0.8 L at drain). Yamaha does not publish the equivalent figure on the page we retrieved, so we record it as unknown rather than estimate; in practice both engines take small, affordable volumes of oil and both have the parts density of Vietnamese bestsellers behind them.
Tyres
Both wear 17-inch sport rubber: the Winner 90/80-17 front and 120/70-17 rear, the Exciter 90/80-17 front tubeless and 120/70-17 rear tubeless. Sport-profile tyres wear faster than the long-life commuter rubber on a Wave — expect more frequent replacement, and budget for it if you ride the way these bikes ask to be ridden.
Insurance and paperwork
Both are 150 cc-class xe con tay, so licence class, registration and compulsory insurance obligations are identical between them — the cost differences are purely mechanical and fuel-related. The choosing guide for 150 cc manuals covers the licence side.
Verdict on the wallet
On the recorded figures: the Winner R is cheaper to buy, the Exciter is cheaper to run, and the fuel difference compounds fastest for high-mileage riders. A rider doing modest city kilometres will feel the purchase price difference more than the fuel one; a rider covering big distances will close the gap within a couple of years. Whichever you choose, the riding-technique side of six-speed sport underbones is covered in our gearing guide — and to try one for a period in Hanoi, contact us to confirm current availability.