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The Lambretta GP200 and the Saturn V rocket have several things in common, believe it or not. They were both built at the same time and both did the same thing – move humans from one destination to another. Okay, so the Saturn V needed to burn 15 tons of fuel and required 50,000 technicians just to get it moving, this compared to a thimble full of petrol and one person prodding the kick-starter to get the GP200 in motion, but its horses for courses, as they say. There is one more thing that they both had in

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