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Motorcycle Industry Council: Two-wheelers are green

We often hear debates about the merits of riding motorcycles and scooters for environmental reasons. For sure, older bikes manufactured before emissions equipment were prevalent are significantly more polluting than most modern automobiles. On the other hand, motorcycles are nearly always more fuel efficient than their four-wheeled counterparts and new motorcycles are pretty clean when it comes to emissions. Ty van Hooydonk from the Motorcycle Industry Council has some input on the topic, and he highlights points such as the drastic ... Read more →

Long haul: Piaggio introduces 12-month scooter test drive Jeremy Korzeniewski

Considering a scooter but not sure if you're cut out for the two-wheeled lifestyle? Piaggio believes it may have the answer to this common problem with its latest promotion, which offers buyers ...

France will require scooter drivers to get special training Xavier Navarro

Back in the late '90s, many European countries decided to allow car drivers, those with a B license, to drive scooters up to 125 cc. This was an effort to ease congestion. However, France has decided ...

Honda scooters - outsmarting the smart? Jeremy Korzeniewski

Scooter sales shot skyward just about as fast as gas prices did early this summer as the little buzzers took the place of larger, gas guzzling machines, especially in urban areas. Honda's got some new ...

Vespa rolls out brand-new interactive website Jeremy Korzeniewski

Vespa makes some great scooters, but up until today, the Italian two-wheeled wasps were burdened by a rather unwieldy website. It's hard for customers to make informed purchasing decisions when the ...

Jeremy Clarkson on motorbikes: "You will be killed!" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson was recently photographed riding near his Oxfordshire home on a Vespa, it caused a minor uproar. That's because Clarkson has long had a rather derisive attitude toward two-wheeled conveyances. Seeing Clarkson on a scooter caused some observers to accuse him ...

Scooter sales up 66% so far this year 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As gas prices rise, so it seems do the sales of gas-misers like scooters and small-bore motorcycles. Larger, more powerful and therefore more expensive motorcycles are doing the opposite, dropping in sales like the pickups and SUVs of the automotive realm, though surely for different reasons. ...

This isn't the first scooter boom in the U.S. 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Scooters first became popular in war-torn Europe after the first few world-wide spats broke loose and conspired to ruin the economies of a great many countries, not the least of which was Italy. The boot-shaped nation responded by embracing small, economical scooters, especially the wasp-like ...

Dealership can't sell trucks, sells scooters instead 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The sky-high price of gas has hit some dealerships pretty hard. A perfect example of this is Moody Chevrolet in River Falls, Wisconsin which last sold a pick up truck sometime in February. While their truck inventory sits outside and waits patiently for new homes, the Moody brothers still need to ...

Fox Business wants you to keep your trucks 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for high-res gallery of the Piaggio MP3 400 and 500 Finding yourself stuck in a truck? Gas guzzling got you down? You are certainly not alone. Though the most obvious thing to do would be to ditch the fuel-inefficient vehicle for a cheaper to run model, Fox Business has other ideas. ...

Consumer Reports investigating motorcycle testing procedures 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image above for high-resolution shots of the Aprilia Scarabeo 200 There's no arguing with the fact that high gas prices have fueled an increase in motorcycle and scooter sales. As Consumer Reports shows, the overall scooter market in particular is up a whopping twenty-four percent. ...

Piaggio MP3 on the Lincoln Highway: A "No Age Limit" adventure 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for more images of the Piaggio MP3 400 and 500 Two seventy-something year old men will soon be embarking on a 3,400 mile trip across the U.S. on the famed Lincoln Highway. The trip for Bob Chase and Bernard "Buddy" Rosenbaum will start on June 13 at San Francisco's Lincoln Park and hit ...

Autoextremist doesn't love scooters 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image above for high-resolution shots of the Aprilia Scarabeo 200 There is a certain amount of truth to Peter M. De Lorenzo's latest rant regarding the recent trend of record scooter sales in the United States. For instance, while we often report on the fuel savings of the average ...

Photo evidence: Celebs ride on scooters 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image to see more celebrity scooter riders The list of celebrities driving hybrids - the Toyota Prius especially - is rather long and seems to be growing every day. There's another list, though, which shows that celebs often enjoy life on two wheels. The choice of transportation for ...

Yamaha adds scooter fuel mileage estimates to its website 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Yamaha is not the first manufacturer to tout the fuel efficiency of its line of scooters, but it is the first to go so far as to list the estimated fuel mileage on each of its website's product pages. Scooter riders will be happy to see that Yamaha is claiming 124 miles per gallon from its Zuma, ...

High gas prices causing scooter "grudge purchases" 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image above for high-resolution shots of the Aprilia Scarabeo 200 There's a new term to add to your vehicular lexicon: the grudge purchase. This phenomenon usually occurs shortly after pumping gasoline into your SUV and the inevitable large outlay of cash which follows. Scooter shops ...

Indian bike makers working on natural gas options in response to Tata Nano 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Motorcycle, scooter and moped manufacturers in India are worried. Since Tata announced their ultra-cheap Nano, the two-wheeled industry is abuzz with worry that the populace will quickly abandon their old single-track vehicles for the safety and convenience of a four-wheeler if the price points get ...

Italy plans to pay riders to replace their old scooters with new ones 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Italy is a bastion for cool old scooter finds, as classic manufacturers such as Piaggio, Vespa and Lambretta were born and bred there. These classic scooters include striking and beautiful design aesthetics as well as solid construction methods. Also in their favor are decades of sentimental ...

Rumormill: LML to produce Vespa PX clones with 4 stroke engines? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A few years ago, Bajaj stopped making their Chetak and Legend scooters, and since then there has been a dinstinct lack of any steel-bodied, manual transmission, 4-stroke scooters on the market. Genuine Scooters has begun selling their Stella scooter again after a short absence and Vespa themselves ...

Iraqis riding scooters for the same reasons as everybody else 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

This might be obvious, of course, but the circumstances and changes in Iraq have made its citizens more careful about using gasoline. The NYT has published a very nice article on how the perception of Iraqis towards oil has changed, when once it was even cheaper than bottled water. To start, Iraqis ...

Video: Scooters invade Chicago! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

NBC5scooter Uploaded by 2strokebuzz Here is a cool little video courtesy of 2 Stroke Buzz, a great site for scooter-related news and stories. The video comes from NBC 5 in Chicago, and according to them, "High gas prices and a commitment to the environment have spiked scooter sales." Sure enough, ...

Is it time for you to take a fresh look at scooters? Check out the new Piaggio Carnaby. 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

With the growing (literally) problem of traffic in large cities and metropolitan areas, many are taking a fresh look at scooters as a viable form of transportation. Why? Simple, really. No, really... that's it: they are a simple way to get around. Not only do they pollute less than our cars and ...

Scooters could help reduce CO2 emissions in New York City 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Piaggio Group of Italy has commissioned a new study conducted by the Sam Schwartz Engineering consultancy on the effects of increased motor scooter use in New York City. The engineering company created computer simulation models of a section of midtown Manhattan and examined different traffic ...

Photo Gallery: When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Drive small cars. 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I met a guy at the Motor Trend Community Forum who recently took a trip to Rome. While he was there, he took many pictures, and many of them were in an attempt to find the smallest cars in Rome that people actually drive. Look at the Gallery, you will see some classics like the Fiat 500, and some ...

Scooter and bike sales going gangbusters 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

One of the options for saving fuel does not involve spending lots of money on hybrid vehicles, or brewing your own biodiesel in your garage. Using a bike is clearly going to save a ton of fuel, but even a scooter will put a good dent in your gas bill. The Utah News reports motorcycle, scooter and ...


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