lambretta!?!?!?!?

[pasquale_sa]

certo che sto sito lambrettausa è davvero incredibile, questi a quanto pare la rifanno x davvero!

Seattle, WA December 8, 2003

Lambretta scooters returning to USA.!

Lambretta International announced today in Seattle, Washington that the world famous Italian scooter brand "Lambretta" will be returning to the North American scooter market in 2004.

Lambretta was introduced to the USA market in the 1950s to compete with Vespa, another Italian scooter. The two Italian pioneers in the scooter industry soon dominated the USA scooter market, and have continued to maintain a high level of enthusiasm amongst the scootering community. Even during their absence, both had managed to remain as icons in the scooter industry.

Vespa scooters, built by Piaggio, returned to the US market three years ago and quickly re-established the product, and a nationwide dealer network, due to its famous past and brand recognition.

Lambretta USA, a division of Lambretta International, will be competing directly with Vespa again for the throne of the USA scooter market.

Lambretta International, owned by the Khurana family of Seattle, WA, has entered into an Operating Agreement with CMSI of Preston, WA to manage the North American Lambretta operations, including US final assembly, Marketing and Customer Services for Lambretta USA. (.....)

Seattle, WA February 12, 2004

"Lambretta USA Announces Opening of Italia Offices"

Upon returning from a trip to the birthplace of Lambretta, ( Milano ) and other cities and vendor plants in Northern Italy, CMSI announced the formation of the Lambretta Italia offices in Desenzano, Italy.

The Desenzano offices of Lambretta USA will coordinate the Italian sourcing and Italian vendor relations.

Christopher Sparacino of CRG S.p.A., the world leader in high performance karting and holder of three consecutive world karting championships, will head up the Lambretta Italia offices for Lambretta USA.

June 28, 2004 - CMSI Announces Design and Engineering Agreement for New Lambretta

CMSI is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Scooter Innovations of Preston, England. This important agreement is the result of months of research and consideration of various design and engineering experts. Scooter Innovations ltd, (Lambretta laboratory) owned and operated by Frank Sanderson, was chosen for this design phase because of its extensive experience and outstanding reputation among Lambretta enthusiasts in the cutting edge scooter market of UK.

ÔÇ£After a week of interviews and inspections in England with Frank Sanderson of Scooter Innovations and his development partners, there is no question that we have found the perfect matchÔÇØ, According to officials f CMSI.

Scooter Innovations and its sister company PM Tuning combined have over 60 years of road tested experience with scooter design and performance solutions. Their projects have been featured numerous times over the past several years in European scooter publications.

According to Tom Lynott, CMSI President heading up the Lambretta USA team, ÔÇ£this agreement is an important step in producing a new Lambretta that will be well received by the discerning scooter buyer. Gathering information provided by industry leaders as well as overwhelming numbers of enthusiasts who have been providing feedback on the www.lambrettausa.com, has helped us form a clear picture of what the market is looking for from the re-introduction of the Lambretta scooter.ÔÇØ The new production Lambretta will be a combination of the classic styling of the 60ÔÇÖs and the best engineering and performance components available today. The design will be a progression from the popular Series 3 Lambretta. Plenty of focus will also be placed on performance and handling characteristics with Italian engines, adjustable shocks and disc brakes both front and rear. According to Lynott, ÔÇ£the new production Lambretta will be a perfect marriage of both old and new, which is exactly what the market is asking for.ÔÇØ

ÔÇÿPhase ZeroÔÇÖ prototypes developed by Scooter Innovations will be patterned for production and the 2005 release of the new Lambretta scooters.

che dire... pazzesco e ci volevano gli americani....

[Ospite]

beh , se rifanno la lambretta come la vespa (in usa girano quasi solo ET4 ...) potevano risparmiarsi la fatica ... chissa' che storpiatura viene fuori ....

poi all'inizio quando dicono che la Lambretta era lo scooter piu' famoso al mondo (piu' della vespa !!???!!!) hanno gia' toppato alla grande ...no ?

e dire che io sono anche lambrettista ...

[________martin]

Beh se è vero è una bella notizia! Anche se dubito che si mantengano molto fedeli alla linea originale, come dicono, e tantomeno ai materiali originali (verrebbe a costare il doppio di qualsiasi altro scooter)...

...PLASTIC?! OH YEAH!

[50celeste]

credo che oggi chi voglia una lambretta, preferisca di gran lunga restaurarne una "vecchia" che comprarne una nuova (per di più americana)...probabilmente con un restauro fatto a regola d'arte spende qualcosina in più, ma il risultato è tutta un'altra cosa!

[Tomash]

So che nei paesi anglosassoni la Lambretta ha avuto ed ha tuttora molti estimatori, forse in inghilterra la preferiscono alla Vespa.

Non mi meraviglio che gli americani la definisano "lo scooter più popolare al mondo".

Ciao

Tomash

[Ospite]

no no , io frequento da tantissimi anni la scena inglese , Vespa e Lambretta non vanno di pari passo ma piuttosto ├â┬¿ la vespa ad essere molto piu' diffusa . ├â┬® esattamente come da noi , entrambe hanno estimatori ma il fatto che la piaggo sia anocra una realta' funzionante risulta piu' comodo ...

stesso dicasi per gli USA , in occasione del coast to coast del '91 ho partecipato a numerosi raduni , assoluta maggioranza di vespa (anzi quasi 100% ) e soprattutto PX .. dopotutto si tratta del Nuovo Continente ....