Brijmohan Lall Munjal, who died recently, changed the dynamics of the motorcycle industry by introducing fuel-efficient, low-maintenance Japanese bikes in the early 1980s. Those were the days my......
Italian automaker Piaggio on Thursday said it will invest 30 million euro in India to set up a scooter facility in Baramati, Maharashtra, to re-introduce the iconic Vespa scooter by early 2012. "We......
Scooters, which almost disappeared into the dark alleys of nostalgia, are making a grand comeback. The golden days of the early 80s, when scooters had a 64 per cent market share, are still far......
Italy's Piaggio is to reintroduce the Vespa into India's two-wheeler market as part of a wider push into Asia after what will have been an absence of more than a decade. The company said on Tuesday......
A small-town boy from Jodhpur, armed with a recent degree in mechanical engineering from Jaipur, joined LML Vespa in Kanpur in 1987 at a paltry salary of Rs 1,400 a month.Today, Mahesh Singhi is......
It was survival of both man and machine in the Gulf Monsoon Scooter Rally as riders negotiated slushy, gravel-laden, winding terrain along the backwoods of Navi Mumbai. Nashik's Shamim Khan......
Rustom Patel was the toast of the day in the Gulf Autocross for two-wheelers, sponsored by Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd. and organised by Sportscraft, at the Godrej grounds in Vikhroli, Mumbai, on......
It is eight in the evening and time for room service. Assistant Editor Faisal Shariff isin Virender Sehwag's hotel room. India's latest herois switching channels, replying to SMS messages,......
Unfancied Shamim Khan, astride a Kinetic Marvel, shocked a host of seasoned campaigners to win theGulf Monsoon Scooter rally, which was staged along the backwoods of Thane and Kalyan, on the......