4/4: New Honda scooter

[adamzion]

Originally posted by Tony Shepps
I guess it's new transportation product week here. Honda announced that they would be coming out with the scooter because scooter demand worldwide is up. This is a 600cc scooter.

However it will only be available in Europe and Japan. They are coming out with their most powerful American scooter at the same time but it'll only be 250cc.

It's blasphemy here in the USA, where motorcycles are king, to say you would like a scooter, but I really would like to have a scooter. It's a lot of fun and the fuel savings on little trips would be amazing. A friend of mine bought the smallest Honda scooter way back in '82. It would only go 40, and was really unsuited to daily transportation, but it was tons of fun to putt around on.
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I'll give 100% credit where it's due: this looks cool as hell. I'd also think that this kind of scooter, simply because it probably <b>isn't</b> something that you'd ride at terribly high speeds or on the freeways (as you could with a full-fledged motorcycle) would probably be somewhat safer than one of its more muscular bretheren.

Of course, Ilana and my parents will still wince if I talk about buying one,

Any idea how much it'll run?
Z