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New Fiat 500 might arrive here courtesy of Ford?

Monday, July 7, 2008

(The Italian Automobile Factory of Turin might team up with Ford to bring us the 500!? flickr/van.brussel) Fiat S.p.A., founded in 1899, had formed a partner ship with Ford after their agreement with GM dissolved back in 2005. With their new found friendship rumors have been spreading that Fiat is considering the usage of Ford’s […]

Rumblings of the American arrival of "the most powerful scooter in the universe"!

Monday, October 22, 2007

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Dudel is picking up something on this Scoot-ar (Radar for scoo… nevermind). What he’s hearing is that Piaggio may be blessing us with yet ANOTHER Gilera rebranded scooter, the GP 800! What does that mean to you and I? That we might be test riding a twin cylinder, 850cc, 75 hp, big-wheeled super-scooter as soon […]

Honda "puttin’ the coals" to their production facilities. Expect LOTS of Hondas in 2008 / 2009

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

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(More hints that THIS could appear in more than just your dreams? Perhaps.) This just in from Dudel. In a 2007 Mid-Year Honda CEO speech, we are being made aware of a HUGE production capacity increase for 2008, driving from 860,000 units to 1.5 million! Here’s what Dudel sent: 2007 Mid-Year CEO Speech Motorcycle Business […]

Can we expect the resurrection of the 2-stroke shifter?

Sunday, June 3, 2007

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(LML back and running! Will that mean the return of the Stella?) While visiting the site of the birthday boy himself (Illnoise over at 2Stroke Buzz), I ran into this little story discussing the return of LML. It seems that Brian has discovered some clues on the Japanese LML site showing the factory back in […]

The Honda Griffon is a "GO"!

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

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(above you can see the 2003 Concept and the 2007 Patent file drawing) At the 2003 Tokyo Motor Show Honda introduced a concept… A DREAM of the future and it was called the Honda Griffon GRF-1. Well, it appears as of yesterday the Griffon became official! That’s right! Resident Seattle Scooper Dudel has been doing […]

This just in… Vespa LXS arrival dates!

Friday, February 9, 2007

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Well! This could be a pretty exciting scoop for many of you. The recently announced and exceedingly hot Vespa LXS that was originally scheduled for an “everyone but American’s” release, may ACTUALLY be landing here after all! Trusted sources at Vespa Seattle say to expect to see her in showrooms Q4 of THIS YEAR! That’s […]