Light & likeable

It’s easy for Aussies to overlook Kymco as just another cheap Taiwanese scooter brand, but it’s been around the block once or twice. Launched in the early 1960s, it initially produced parts for Honda before first becoming a manufacturing facility for the Japanese brand and then a manufacturer in its own right.

In the 1980s, Honda became what the brand calls “a significant shareholder” with Kymco, three decades before the likes of KTM was making strategic ties