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Micros make a small splash at the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show

Monday, September 17, 2007

A cool little Gawker Media company called Jalopnik (which translates roughly into “car nerds”), dropped their coverage of the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show. If you are a fan of scooters and microcars, you would have had very little to get excited about from a numbers standpoint. The closest thing to a scooter they had was […]

AGN: Yamaha Majesty custom leaves me speechless

Thursday, January 18, 2007

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Our Japanese contact AKI sends this scoop from AutoGalleryNet. This customized Yamaha Grand Majesty, called the “Hagane”, was found lounging at the 2007 Japan Auto Salon. We’re talking the most foot forwardy, leaning three-wheeled, pimped out, jaw dropping custom to ever make you say “OMG!” or “WTF?!”, your choice. In their article there is a […]

Honda brings the BLING with their Forza Concept

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

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(Looks like Honda asked themselves “what if Ludacris was scooter shopping?”) From the looks of THIS concept found at the 2007 Tokyo Auto Salon, it appears Honda doesn’t want to pigeon-holed as that stodgy old scooter manufacturer known just for their reliability. No, it looks like they are actually taking some tips from Yamaha lately […]

2007 Non-European Scooter Shows – China

Monday, January 15, 2007

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If you follow the big scooter shows then I’m sure you’re familiar with EICMA in Milan, Intermot in Cologne, M.D.D.R.(MONDIAL DU DEUX ROUES) in Paris, so forth and so on. Then, outside of Europe you have The Tokyo Motorshow and… annnnd… Give up? The Shanghai International Leisure & Sports Vehicle Exhibition or SIVE, that’s who. […]

Vespa S Video

Saturday, December 9, 2006

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Found this while combing the YouTube and had to share, because the Vespa S is SSSSSo, SSSSexy! Although, now that I’ve seen the video, I think I’d customize that big honkin’ brake light lens. It’s OUT there.Thanks gguiotto! Oh… and as long as you’re wathing gguiotto’s videos, check out his shots of the Gilera GP800, […]

Italian Scooter News Agency talks L-Series

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

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(Thanks to cyberscooter.it for undressing her for us all to see. Those Italians are always so suave.) I’m going to try and attempt a translation of a Google translation of an Italian report of the American version of an Italian classic formerly known as the Lambretta. (Wait… it seems I lost a couple of you […]