High Gas Prices Drive Even Higher Scooter Sales

With Gas prices reaching $3.00 per gallon for regularchoose to go around town via scooters.
unleaded (and rising), it is no wonder that people areA lot has changed in the style and comfort of
turning to alternative methods of transportation.scooters (moped) since Vespa introduced their first line
We have seen a recent surge of 50cc / 125cc /in 1946. With new designs and continued hike in gas
150cc Moped Scooter sales at ExtremeMotorSalesprices, you should expect to see a lot more scooters
Customers main reason? Can't afford increase in gason the road.
prices! A single tank of gas can last up to a month andSome new scooter features : Disc brakes, wider
with an average of a gallon tank size, this meansseats, lit gauges, optional rear trunk, storage under the
significant savings for scooter owners. Compare thatseat, alarms and some even have stereos! Scooters
to an average fill up of gas being reported nearly $50have definitely come a long way since the original
per week, that is a huge savings of over $190 in thepedal start style.
first month of owning one of our scooters. With anUS sales of small-bore cycles aren't yet at their peak -
average scooter ranging less than $1000, it will pay for300,000 units in 1978. But sales are up 500 percent
itself in 4 months. After that? Well, start enjoying yoursince 1999, and rose from 83,000 units sold in 2004 to
$190+ is gas savings!130,000 in 2005, according to the Motorcycle Industry
With our line of scooters and motorcycles customersCouncil. A new moped starts at $1,000, and fancy
see the value in saving money at the pump andscooters go for more than $5,000.