Scootering to Efficiency. By Dexter Ford, NYTimes, October 22, 2009. "A funny thing happened on the way to $4-a-gallon gas, financial collapse and gridlocked city traffic. Americans... discovered scooters -- the zippy, fashion-forward transpo-pods that have long filled the streets and sidewalks of Beijing, Paris, Rome, Shanghai and other cities throughout the world. American city dwellers, from Miami to Seattle, are being lured into Vespa and other scooter dealerships by the prospect of 70-plus miles per gallon efficiency, traffic-dodging agility and leave-it-anywhere parkability... Scooters come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny 50 cc machines with top speeds of 30 to 40 miles per hour all the way to 500 cc, 600 cc and bigger maxi scooters, from Piaggio, Suzuki and Honda, which can carry two people and luggage on freeways, at speeds nearing 100 m.p.h."
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