If Kymco is the world's 5th largest scooter manufacture...

[Stig / Major Tom]

who are the other 4?
Honda, Yamaha, Piaggio, Suzuki??

Yes?
Or...?

Stig

[pa-outdoorsman]

who are the other 4?
Honda, Yamaha, Piaggio, Suzuki??

Yes?
Or...?

Stig

I thought they were the largest. Not sure where I heard that, but I just assumed they were huge in Asia because of their lower-cost, high-reliability machines.

[Iahawk]

it wouldn't surprise me if a no-name Chinese manufacturer was in the top 5..or even Indian? Did a quick search for top scooter manufacturers and couldn't pull up any data..

[Neil955i]

You’re right,seems this data not readily available. Best I can offer for UK is top selling 2 wheelers for last year with two scooters listed, a
Lexmoto and Honda’s venerable PCX

https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/news-and-views/features/bikes/top-10-ten-best-selling-uk-bikes-2019


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[monkeybongos]

I'd guess SYM is in the top 4.

[randyo]

I was under the understanding, that Kymco, is # 5 in powersports, but scooters separately, #1, not sure where I read it though

[TBR125]

I believe Lifan is somewhere high up on the scooter sales. I know they sell a lot of motorcycles.

[Viper254]

I believe Lifan is somewhere high up on the scooter sales. I know they sell a lot of motorcycles.

Lifan are highly involved with motorcycles, particularly in Africa, but no longer make a huge amount of scooters and have likely been surpassed by Znen (Zhongneng).

Lexmoto don't "make" any scooters

If it's not Honda, Piaggio, Suzuki and Yamaha I'd be very surprised!

[Neil955i]

Are Lexmoto just a marketing name then? If so, I take it the engines & running gear are Chinese?


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[QldMark]

Kymco are #1 in Taiwan and #5 in the world.

Appparently they sell 600,000 scooters a year worldwide.

[Viper254]

Are Lexmoto just a marketing name then? If so, I take it the engines & running gear are Chinese?


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Yes. They are mostly selling stuff from Senke, Tianda (closely related to Yamaha's Jianshe), Longjia and Znen nowadays.

They have the models made semi-bespoke for them, but it's badge engineering to a large extent.

[Neil955i]

Thanks Viper, glad you're keeping up with it for us lesser mortals!

[Tromper]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Hero yet.
https://www.bikebd.com/hero-motocorp-limited-the-largest-two-wheeler-manufacturer/

Largest in India anyway; albeit not sure how that breaks down on just scooters. 
Other than that Zhongshen is huge, & then it depends on how you count the Honda Cub, & it's clones as well.

[wymple]

who are the other 4?
Honda, Yamaha, Piaggio, Suzuki??

Yes?
Or...?

Stig

That's the way I heard it, except Kymco was #6. I can't remember who the other top seller is.

[Stig / Major Tom]

In the same spirit of this query. ....
Recently: "Grandpop, what is algebra?"
Me, "Well, it answers mysterious questions like, 'If a bus is going 37mph headed for Cleveland,  and it starts snowing in Omaha  ---  what color is the chicken?"
Stuff like that...
Stig