Thinking About a Scooter
As unexciting as it sounds, I’m thinking about purchasing a scooter. Mainly for my girlfriend to use, as currently she just steals my car all the time. I figure it’d be a decent investment considering a basic scooter gets 3x the MPG of my car, and the yearly operating costs would be significantly less than that of a second car.
The main drawback would be that you can’t drive it year round, but seeing as my business is usually slower in the fall/winter months it shouldn’t be too difficult to pull off sharing a car at that point.
I’m currently looking at the Schwinn Newport 150 (150cc engine), it gets 85MPG and has a top speed of 53MPH, which is looking pretty good considering the price of $1999.99 (msrp).
I had been looking at the Honda Metropolitan (retails for $1899.99), but I’m not sure about it since it’s only a 49cc engine, which is rather slow.
Anyone out there have any recommendations for a good scooter in the $2500 range?