Don’t Commute … Scoot!

Tank has published its 2008 catalog of Tank products. Most significant (to me) is what’s happened to their scooter lineup. It’s shrunk!

All that’s left are the Urban 50, both sized of the Classic, both sizes of the Viaggio, both sizes of the Sporty, the Touring 150 DE, and the Racer DS.

The thing I’m most surprised about is that the touring 250 (both versions) is gone. I’m bummed! What about you?

This is basically a test post. I recently upgraded WordPress, my blogging software, and am having some problems with it. This post is intended to help me diagnose and fix those problems. Please ignore!

[Update] I think I’ve resolved my blogging problems. Time to get back to real work!

I know it’s been quite a while since I posted anything here in the blog. I promise to not let things go so long without posting again!

I came across this video produced by MRP (one of our vendors) which I think does a good job of highlighting how differently scooters are regarded here in the U.S. vs. elsewhere in the world.

I was particularly struck by how a little country like Vietnam buys over a million scooters a year, while we are hoping to get our sales up to 200,000.

What does the rest of the world see that we don’t?