This is one of the ads that changed the perception of scooters in India. Made by FCB and Kunal Kapoor for LML Vespa....
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
LML NV Television Commercial video (August 2010).VOB
Latest LML NV tvc, august 2010, Dir- Mr. MAHESH AANEY ,Concept & Creative- BRAND CURRY Creative team
Friday, September 24, 2010
LML Star 4 --- Launch & Test Drive @ Vivo Scooters Edinburgh 13th Dec ...
http://www.vivoscooters.co.uk/
"Discover the new Star 4 stroke, a totally new and innovative scooter with an unrivalled style. Star 4 stroke is the happy association of youth and dynamic reality, which combines emergent countries advancement and the stylistic definition of the best international design.
The scooter is one of the most ecological friendly product in the world, and it unites the best in engineering innovations with an unmistakable style. LML Star creates a new benchmark and design in the frame (chassis), in the engine and other elements creating new standards for safety, reliability and comfort.
Here are some of the innovations that characterize the new Star 4 stroke - a symbol of excellence of its international design. The 4 stroke Star is totally unique in its frame configuration; innovative structure of welded steel pipes that go to integrate to the sheet metal body configuration, bringing the following innovations:
• Torsion rigidity which is far superior than ever before
• Engine well positioned on the frame for stability
• Adoption of an engine support system with silent-block (Pro Link Mechanism) to connect frame with engine
• Great power brakes
• New suspension system.
This revolutionary structure improves considerably the characteristics of drive, thanks to enhanced stability, absence of vibrations and oscillations, and gives excellent comfort, stability, safety and driving pleasure.
The Star has a revolutionary 4 stroke engine which is, horizonatlly inclined mono cylindrical with single over head cam having two valves, forced air cooling system and a manual 4 gear change with electric starting and also pedal (kick start); these characteristics make the drive very fluid also for the most inexperienced customers thanks to the engine which is bestowed with a good torque also at low speeds .
If you are looking for a futuristic classic and if you want to stand out from the normal scooter, you need to get an LML Star Deluxe and enjoy the Star Lifestyle.
SCOOTERSALES.COM
http://www.scootersales.com.au/News-3...
"Discover the new Star 4 stroke, a totally new and innovative scooter with an unrivalled style. Star 4 stroke is the happy association of youth and dynamic reality, which combines emergent countries advancement and the stylistic definition of the best international design.
The scooter is one of the most ecological friendly product in the world, and it unites the best in engineering innovations with an unmistakable style. LML Star creates a new benchmark and design in the frame (chassis), in the engine and other elements creating new standards for safety, reliability and comfort.
Here are some of the innovations that characterize the new Star 4 stroke - a symbol of excellence of its international design. The 4 stroke Star is totally unique in its frame configuration; innovative structure of welded steel pipes that go to integrate to the sheet metal body configuration, bringing the following innovations:
• Torsion rigidity which is far superior than ever before
• Engine well positioned on the frame for stability
• Adoption of an engine support system with silent-block (Pro Link Mechanism) to connect frame with engine
• Great power brakes
• New suspension system.
This revolutionary structure improves considerably the characteristics of drive, thanks to enhanced stability, absence of vibrations and oscillations, and gives excellent comfort, stability, safety and driving pleasure.
The Star has a revolutionary 4 stroke engine which is, horizonatlly inclined mono cylindrical with single over head cam having two valves, forced air cooling system and a manual 4 gear change with electric starting and also pedal (kick start); these characteristics make the drive very fluid also for the most inexperienced customers thanks to the engine which is bestowed with a good torque also at low speeds .
If you are looking for a futuristic classic and if you want to stand out from the normal scooter, you need to get an LML Star Deluxe and enjoy the Star Lifestyle.
SCOOTERSALES.COM
http://www.scootersales.com.au/News-3...
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Citizen Matters, Bangalore: Young lovers of vintage scooters
Citizen Matters, Bangalore: Young lovers of vintage scooters
You’d expect the members of a group that calls itself the Bangalore Classic Scooter Club to be older, gray-haired, bordering on their 50s perhaps. It therefore comes as a surprise that the founder-members of this group, four in all, are in their 20s and 30s. In fact, as Arun P, one of the founder-members and all of 23 tells me, most of their members are below the age of 35.
If that’s the first of the clichés shattered (vintage scooters would appeal to those who belong to somewhat vintage years) then the next is yet another widely believed one. You’d expect young men to be zooming around on their bikes, not on the Lambrettas and Vespas once used by their dads and passionately restoring these to their former glory. Mention this to them and you would be surprised. They may use bikes from time to time but like the obsession with vintage cars, the passion for classic scooters is an unexplained one, says Arun, a mechanical engineer turned MBA aspirant, who says tinkering with automobiles was his childhood dream.
“For most of us the passion originates from a time when we were 16 or 17 years and it was time to move from a bicycle to a motorised vehicle,” says Siddharth Naidu, IT professional and another founder-member. Naidu used his dad’s Lambretta for six years before it was sold off. He finally bought one of his own in 2008 from an old gentleman and met fellow enthusiast and collector Arun, who knew the right mechanics for the required repair job. They met up with two other classic scooter enthusiasts Gokul Yumm and Yatish G V in Cubbon Park for a ride in April 2009 and decided to start the Bangalore classic scooter club.
So what could be categorised as a classic scooter? Lambretta, Vespa and Vijay Super are the names that fall about in conversation. “To us any scooter that has hand operated gears and follows the classic design would be one,” says Naidu. “Preferably something manufactured before ’85-’90,” adds Arun, who owns several classic scooters apart from a vintage Morris Minor.
The Bangalore Classic Scooter Club can be found onFacebook. You could also email them at: bcsc2010[at]gmail[dot]com.
The members conduct a rally on the last Sunday of almost every month and as Naidu adds, the number of participants has been increasing steadily with each one. The rally in February this year saw almost 30 classic scooters. And while you ideally need to have a vintage scooter to be a participant, Arun adds that they have never really stopped anyone from joining in or from simply gawking at the line-up of scooters, in steel gray, blue, white and some in cheerful candy colours.
The rallies and word of mouth efforts have increased the club’s members who help each other out, whether it is in finding out about the right mechanics or helping someone to procure a classic scooter. Naidu laments that the popularity of old scooters has led to some people quoting exorbitant rates and trying to make a quick buck. Which is the reason the club is helpful as members can exchange news on repair jobs, availability of spare parts and finding a scooter of the right vintage. And with a motto that says Save Our Scooters (SOS), could you expect any less? ⊕
07 Jun 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Vespa PX to return? : 2strokebuzz
With rumors swirling that the 4-stroke LML Star/Genuine Stella sales are sparking a P-series competitor from Vespa, our pals at French site Scooter-Station asked Jean-Philippe Dauviau, Marketing Director of Piaggio France “Will the PX be produced again?”
Dauviau answers that several markets have requested it, and it’s likely, though it wouldn’t be a 4-stroke.
Dauviau answers that several markets have requested it, and it’s likely, though it wouldn’t be a 4-stroke.
Rumors of a 4-stroke P have circulated since the 1980s, so one wonders why Piaggio has been unable to engineer such a bike. If demand was insufficient over the last 30 years, it’s no surprise they wouldn’t bother now. LML managed to build a bike that Piaggio seems to think is impossible, for far less than Piaggio would charge for it. LML sales are good in a few markets, but it’s still a niche product, especially in France and Italy. We’ve been arguing on forums for months now that it’s even LESS likely than ever that Piaggio would put out a 4-stroke P, and this looks like proof that we’re right. If anything, we can look forward to yet another limited edition of mildly more eco-friendly (ironically, probably reed-valved like the original Stellas) 2-stroke PX150s (in white, red, or black!) targeted at the Brits and Germans and ridiculously overpriced here in America (and–hello 1985!– not available in California).
Oddly, we’re starting to agree with Piaggio. They’ve moved on, let LML have that market. As Dauviau points out*, the modern Vespa is superior in every way, aside from simplicity and tradition, and a 4-stroke engine and partial tube frame blows the simplicity/tradition argument anyway. As far as styling, the P-series is no VBB or GS, and the modern Vespa S and GTS are both proof that the design of the modern Vespa can evoke the past AND break new ground in reasonable balance. Sure, we vintage Vespa fans don’t want to see things that way, but the compromises required to manufacture and import scooters these days will never allow our dreams to come true anyway. That’s what vintage Vespas are for in the first place, remember?
Thursday, July 29, 2010
New age Vespa to be a lifestyle product meant for the elite | mydigitalfc.com
New age Vespa to be a lifestyle product meant for the elite | mydigitalfc.com
The iconic new age Vespa in its third coming would be positioned as a premiumly priced scooter, after fifteen years of non-existence on the Indian roads.
Piaggio India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Italy’s Piaggio SpA, will start building the Vespa LX 125 scooter starting early 2012 at a new greenfield factory in Baramati. In the first year, the new plant will be able to build over 100,000 Vespa scooters.
“A Vespa is a Vespa, its not a scooter..the Vespa (to be produced in India) will be designed for the Indian consumers’ tastes, something that offers them iconic value. It is a lifestyle product meant for the elite, for people who like to be distinctly known to possess something unique in nature,” chairman and managing director Piaggio India Ravi Chopra told Financial Chronicle.
Piaggio is working on ensuring that the gearless scooter suits the average short height of the Indian rider, so that their feet can reach the ground easily. It is also meant to suit women wearing floor-length Saris sitting at the rear seat of the scooter. Chopra said it would be too early to talk about the price of the LX 125.
The Vespa is made of a steel frame and sold in major continents Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia. “Vespa was first built in 1947 with a steel frame and the Indian one will be no different,” Chopra said when asked how would the company compete with other domestic scooters whose bodies are moulded from plastics and are hence less costly.
Chopra said the scooter market would witness a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13 per cent in the next three years, and about 2.5 million scooters would be required in the market by 2013. India’s scooter sales surged 22 per cent to 1.46 million units in 2009-10, according to SIAM.
Piaggio India already has a facility in Baramati in Maharashtra to manufacture 150,000 petrol and diesel engines for commercial vehicles as well as its Ape range of three and four-wheeled vehicles. Chopra declined to give investment required in the new factory.
The board of Piaggio Spa had in June said it would invest 30 million Euros at establishing a new factory for its Indian unit over the next two years.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group said it has granted a loan worth 45 million Euros to allow Piaggio SpA to bring out a variety of new products with improved fuel efficiencies to the Indian market as well as expand its existing factory in Vietnam.
Vespa first entered India in the 1960s through a license manufacturing agreement with the Firodias. Firodias were a part of the Bajaj group at that time. The joint venture agreement expired in 1971 and Bajaj came out with its own Chetak scooter range.
The Vespa made a comeback in India again through a joint venture with LML in 1983 till 1999, when LML bought back Piaggio’s stake in the joint venture company.
Though Bajaj Auto has walked away from the scooter market, Hero Honda, Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India, TVS Motor Co. and Suzuki Motorcycle India all sell scooters.
Piaggio India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Italy’s Piaggio SpA, will start building the Vespa LX 125 scooter starting early 2012 at a new greenfield factory in Baramati. In the first year, the new plant will be able to build over 100,000 Vespa scooters.
“A Vespa is a Vespa, its not a scooter..the Vespa (to be produced in India) will be designed for the Indian consumers’ tastes, something that offers them iconic value. It is a lifestyle product meant for the elite, for people who like to be distinctly known to possess something unique in nature,” chairman and managing director Piaggio India Ravi Chopra told Financial Chronicle.
Piaggio is working on ensuring that the gearless scooter suits the average short height of the Indian rider, so that their feet can reach the ground easily. It is also meant to suit women wearing floor-length Saris sitting at the rear seat of the scooter. Chopra said it would be too early to talk about the price of the LX 125.
The Vespa is made of a steel frame and sold in major continents Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia. “Vespa was first built in 1947 with a steel frame and the Indian one will be no different,” Chopra said when asked how would the company compete with other domestic scooters whose bodies are moulded from plastics and are hence less costly.
Chopra said the scooter market would witness a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13 per cent in the next three years, and about 2.5 million scooters would be required in the market by 2013. India’s scooter sales surged 22 per cent to 1.46 million units in 2009-10, according to SIAM.
Piaggio India already has a facility in Baramati in Maharashtra to manufacture 150,000 petrol and diesel engines for commercial vehicles as well as its Ape range of three and four-wheeled vehicles. Chopra declined to give investment required in the new factory.
The board of Piaggio Spa had in June said it would invest 30 million Euros at establishing a new factory for its Indian unit over the next two years.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group said it has granted a loan worth 45 million Euros to allow Piaggio SpA to bring out a variety of new products with improved fuel efficiencies to the Indian market as well as expand its existing factory in Vietnam.
Vespa first entered India in the 1960s through a license manufacturing agreement with the Firodias. Firodias were a part of the Bajaj group at that time. The joint venture agreement expired in 1971 and Bajaj came out with its own Chetak scooter range.
The Vespa made a comeback in India again through a joint venture with LML in 1983 till 1999, when LML bought back Piaggio’s stake in the joint venture company.
Though Bajaj Auto has walked away from the scooter market, Hero Honda, Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India, TVS Motor Co. and Suzuki Motorcycle India all sell scooters.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
PCAS! - Vespa 150 Restoration
PCAS!
By:Bijoy Kumar Y
Prevention of cruelty against scooters? Well, call it whatever you want to call it, I do have a soft corner for old Vespas and Vespas made in India under license from Piaggio. Whoa, that includes scores of Bajaj 150’s/Supers/Chetaks/Cubs; Priya 150’s and even LML Vespas and the odd Vespa PL 170’s. But primarily I am concentrating on rescuing Bajaj 150’s and Priya 150’s that has the look and feel of the original from the 1950-60’s complete with the curvaceous Wasp-ish rear-end that gave it the Vespa tag. What makes me love them – the simplicity of design, the classic origins, the numerous movies and lore and all of the above. Actually, more than anything else a Vespa 150 or a clone is a piece of art in itself. And me, I think of unloved, abandoned examples as blank pieces of canvass that can be used to express my mind. I know, psychedelic scooters are done to death already but what the heck, I have just started!
The process is simple as it happened with Roxanne and Alice – a Bajaj 150 and a Priya 150 that came my way. Identify the scooter, pay a maximum of Rs 4000 for it, then do the essential repair and body work and paint it for another Rs 6000 and you get a piece of art that can do the milk-run.
Roxanne was supposed to be a Lamborghini edition but I couldn’t get the right stickers and hence decided to settle for a checkered-tape that lend the scooter a degree of sportiness. But when Alice was given the matt black and red paint job that was inspired by the black and red that makes up Ferraris I was also determined to get the livery right. So one flank of the scooter pays homage to the Formula One car (F2009) while the other apes the road-going supercar. Painstakingly cut and paste Italian tricolore and a prancing horse (ok, that was a bit blatant but what the heck!) later we had a scooter that, in my eyes, looked just perfect. Cost? Rs 10,000 only including the donor scooter.
Sadly, the scooter is not going to be mine and I felt the tug in my pump when it was time to let her go. Alice will ferry my friend Vishal to the starting points of various half-marathons and training sessions as I embark on the next project that revolves around a theme of WWII aircraft, nose-art (semi-naked women, of course) and overall a riveted look. After that I will start considering an installation art exhibition on Indian Vesp-art!
I am loving it.
Prevention of cruelty against scooters? Well, call it whatever you want to call it, I do have a soft corner for old Vespas and Vespas made in India under license from Piaggio. Whoa, that includes scores of Bajaj 150’s/Supers/Chetaks/Cubs; Priya 150’s and even LML Vespas and the odd Vespa PL 170’s. But primarily I am concentrating on rescuing Bajaj 150’s and Priya 150’s that has the look and feel of the original from the 1950-60’s complete with the curvaceous Wasp-ish rear-end that gave it the Vespa tag. What makes me love them – the simplicity of design, the classic origins, the numerous movies and lore and all of the above. Actually, more than anything else a Vespa 150 or a clone is a piece of art in itself. And me, I think of unloved, abandoned examples as blank pieces of canvass that can be used to express my mind. I know, psychedelic scooters are done to death already but what the heck, I have just started!
The process is simple as it happened with Roxanne and Alice – a Bajaj 150 and a Priya 150 that came my way. Identify the scooter, pay a maximum of Rs 4000 for it, then do the essential repair and body work and paint it for another Rs 6000 and you get a piece of art that can do the milk-run.
Roxanne was supposed to be a Lamborghini edition but I couldn’t get the right stickers and hence decided to settle for a checkered-tape that lend the scooter a degree of sportiness. But when Alice was given the matt black and red paint job that was inspired by the black and red that makes up Ferraris I was also determined to get the livery right. So one flank of the scooter pays homage to the Formula One car (F2009) while the other apes the road-going supercar. Painstakingly cut and paste Italian tricolore and a prancing horse (ok, that was a bit blatant but what the heck!) later we had a scooter that, in my eyes, looked just perfect. Cost? Rs 10,000 only including the donor scooter.
Sadly, the scooter is not going to be mine and I felt the tug in my pump when it was time to let her go. Alice will ferry my friend Vishal to the starting points of various half-marathons and training sessions as I embark on the next project that revolves around a theme of WWII aircraft, nose-art (semi-naked women, of course) and overall a riveted look. After that I will start considering an installation art exhibition on Indian Vesp-art!
I am loving it.
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