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Ease of use is on the high side with the Vespa as it has most modern conveniences. There’s room for a full face helmet under the seat, up front there’s two open glove boxes, it has good clear gauges and the S includes both a side and centre stand. The only really glaring obvious miss is some kind of remote release for the seat. For a bike that costs eighteen thousand mega dollars more than its competitors you’d think they’d at least give it the same features. Credit also goes to Vespa for giving the S a nice strong front disc brake, sadly they wimped out and only went for a drum brake on the back wheel; well half way is better than no way. Fuel consumption on the Vespa is about average for a 50cc two stroke machine at around 3.1L/100kms (75MPG).
Summing up the Vespa S 50. This is the difficult bit, I’m going to have to run through this with some sort of mathematical breakdown because I feel it’s the only way I’ll get my point across. Here we go. The Vespa is a fantastic all round bike. I believe it’s categorically one of the best 50cc bikes on the market. I don’t however like its price at all. In fact to me a premium 50cc bike makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. I’ll now explain it as best I can. If you’re buying a Vespa S 50 because it saves you having to get your motorcycle license, fine. If it’s because that’s a hassle, fine too. If it’s because of cost…then, not fine. Hell it’s miles from fine…it’s a practically a thunderstorm.
Here are two mathematically sound reasons why the Vespa 50 and ‘any’ premium 50cc scooters make little or no financial sense. For the exact same amount of money it costs to buy a Vespa S you buy a Honda Today 50 instead and with the $3590 dollars you save on the purchase price over the Vespa you could pay for all your fuel costs for approx seven years…yes you read that correctly SEVEN YEARS. At current fuel prices you’d ride the Honda Today 70,000kms (43,495miles) before you’d spent the same amount… Or, you could buy a 125cc Suzuki Address, (that does 100kph (62mph) and can be used on the freeway) pay for your motorcycle test, pay for 3 years registration and ride for 33,000kms (20,000miles) for the same price. As you can see the Vespa’s high purchase price takes it completely out of the equation. Anyway if you’re made of money and just like having the best, buy the Vespa. Logic doesn’t always prevail.
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 written by Tomas , March 16, 2010
Isn’t the USD price a bit low or did I miss something?
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 written by vincel , October 06, 2008
Nope... 75mpg is about average, there are actually very few 50cc machines that will do 100mpg or better.. I believe we have tested only 2 so far... plenty claim those figures... very few achieve them in real world tests. The ones that do tend to be phenomenally slow.
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 written by matt , October 06, 2008
how is 75mpg average for a 50cc scooter? seems downright awful to me, considering all the 50cc scooters out there that get 100mpg or more.
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written by vincel , July 19, 2008
Trk... did you actually read the review? I just re-read it to make sure... It talks plenty about the machine, who it would suit, how it rides etc, etc... As always seems the case with our reviews (Vespa in particular for some reason) the majority seem to be very pleased with what we are doing and the moaning minority moan... such is life
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 written by Trk , July 12, 2008
This is not a review. Reviews don't waste the first half of their article bitching about how the world doesn't live up to their personal preferences and hardly mentioning the vehicle they are supposed to be reviewing.
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Some amount of professionalism is appreciated in reviews. report abuse
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 written by ketzals , June 26, 2008
'Mega dollars' are an older intergalactic currency of the pre Jedi, Buluvian trade sector. Actually they were most popular on planet Twinduckmehip. They aren't worth very much and are very hard to translate into any known currency.
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The NZ dollar is currently doing pretty damn well... report abuse
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 written by Deklan , June 25, 2008
" For a bike that costs eighteen thousand mega dollars more than its competitors you’d think they’d at least give it the same features."
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WOW $18,000 more expensive !!! I know NZ dollars are not worth the same as US or Australian Dollars but I was not aware the NZ economy had slipped so badly :( report abuse
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