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EICMA Coverage from Akisan – Italjet Dragster 250 photos

Saturday, November 10, 2007

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 […]

Gizmag – Piaggio ready to release 170 mpg hybrid two and three wheel scooters

Friday, August 3, 2007

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August 2, 2007Italian manufacturer Piaggio, the maker of Vespa, is set to become the first company to release a hybrid drive scooter following an announcement that it is developing hybrid versions of its Vespa LX, Piaggio X8 and Vespa MP3 (the carving three-wheeler) models. The new hybrid system, which has a working title of HyS […]

What you DON’T wanna be driving today

Thursday, June 21, 2007

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Why is Ford still making these dinosaurs? I’ll let you answer that.

Plum Aspen | Gass Guzzling: Plum’s Alternatives to Four Wheels

Monday, May 28, 2007

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Check out what this article is talking about… No, ignore the standard issue, “Save the planet, buy a scooter” part and, well… pay attention to the “we get free scooter parking in Aspen” part we wanna talk about that some more in the near future. More importantly you should pay REAL attention to what the […]

CNNMoney – Gasoline hits record $3.10 a gallon

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

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Checking on GasBuddy.com and I ran into this Reuters piece on CNN Money. It goes like this: WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. consumers are digging deeper in their pockets to fill up at the pump, with the average price for gasoline now a record $3.10 a gallon, the government said on Monday. The national price for […]

Gas prices bust through the $3.50 mark!

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

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According to GasBuddy.com the current average price per gallon nationally is $2.87, even higher than it was a year ago. In some places (California) it’s even broken the $3.60/gal mark! I’m sure that right about now people are starting to feel it. I feel bad for the people who have to drive a big truck […]