TheScooterScoop

Our good friend, Aki Hasegawa, in Japan has brought us the scoop on EICMA 2007. First here’s what he had to say about the show:

Hello Steve,
I just returned to Japan from Milan. This year I don’t have any interesting news from Milan other than Italjet showing the Dragster 250 and some other models (see photos).

I don’t have many photos from Italjet. Perhaps many visitors could not find Italjet in the show because they had a space on the second floor of the pavilion where the East Asia manufacturer’s space was. People would not expect to see Italjet there. There was only one Dragster and it was kept in a small side space (see photo).

The biggest shock to me is the Italian fuel price, 1.3 Euro per Liter, which is equivalent to US$7.229 per Gallon!

Even in Japan it is 140yen per liter which is about US$7.23 per gallon.
In Japan fuel price about 140yen/L =about 4.82US$ per gallon.
Diesel fuel price about 105yen/L =about 3.62US$ per gallon.

Thank you,
Aki

No, thank YOU!
He also sent us some shots of a couple of Dragster sprinters on the floor:

Aprilia showed off its Cargo Bike:

(it’s the ultimate grocery getter, eh?)

Arigato for the updates Aki! Great scoops!

Oh, one more thing, he found this interesting little scoot. Looks like a DiBlasi. I really dig the matching trailer! I’m sure it’s a historical piece.