Guess I will just hold out thru the winter/spring like I planned on in the first place.
Don't wait too long -- or you'll be doing what local customers were doing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina: Putting down a deposit and waiting six weeks to take delivery of a Taiwanese scooter, and paying full MSRP + prep and freight.
We all know gas prices are gonna go
way the hell up -- they're already making the climb. The Taiwanese manufacturers and their U.S. distributors are not showing that they learned anything post-Katrina, and are not planning radical increases in stock availability. Hopefully, Honda and Yamaha will have more sense (and dang, I'd love one of those PCX125s).
So, I'd grab that GV if you have your heart set on a 250cc, and getting a good deal while the gettin' is good.
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