Just returned from a week in New Orleans and was surprised by the number of scooters there. Just about every block of the French Quarter had at least one scooter parked on it and I saw scooters all over the city. Even stopped at a dealership for Vespa / Piaggio. He said they have doubled their sales each of the last 3 years. He was also a fan of Kymco. It did seem as if half of the scooters in NOLA were Vespas, but I saw a few Kymcos....very few Chinese scoots though. Now if we could get more scooter riders in New England.