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India Times – Now ride your mood, not style

21. March 2006

NEW DELHI: There was a time when brand names reminded customers about either their owners /inventors or the product itself. Not any more. In case of scooters and motorcycles for instance, brand names refer to moods rather than the product. Consider the following. Passion, Pulsar, Heat, Pleasure, Discover, and Glamour. Don’t blame your conscience if […]

MSNBC – DaimlerChrysler to persist with Smart car

21. March 2006

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Looks like Piaggio won’t be getting the Smart any time soon. DaimlerChrysler has decided to keep Smart even though it received offers for the troubled small car division from at least two private equity groups, according to people close to the carmaker. Daimler has ended the mandate of Goldman Sachs, the investment bank it hired […]

Popular Mechanics says – Vespa GT better than a Boss Hoss

20. March 2006

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PM’s associate automotive editor, Mike Allen, mentioned this morning how diametrically opposed our Boss Hoss V8 test bike is from another tester we’ve had around recently: the Vespa Granturismo retro scooter. Allen said it’s funny how one is so perfectly suited for getting around easily here in the big city, while the other is exactly […]

If a Daddy Roth bike came to life…

20. March 2006

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It would look like this. All you need is a Rat Fink costume to finish it off.(photo from the Scooter-Attack.com forum)

Science News Article | Reuters.com – FINALLY regulations on the most common engines out there.

18. March 2006

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This sorta ticks me off… They (the man) has worked so hard to stop pollution by starting with what? Killing off two stroke scooters and mopeds, when they should have really been worrying about the engines that almost everyone has and uses every weekend. They are planning to have a plan by 2007. (I know […]

Vietnam scooter swarm

17. March 2006

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This is scooter madness. I can’t figure out what the heck is going on! It just swarms of people riding however the hell they feel like. I like scooters and all, but if it ever looked like this on my street… I’d never come out of the house.