I suppose you can sort of call it a scooter, but with a 75hp V-twin and a 120mph top end, the Gilera GP 800 might define it’s own class- SuperScooter.
Suzuki started the big scooter wars with it’s Burgman, and since then the manufacturers have taken off the gloves for a scooter street brawl. I can understand a speed war for Superbike status, but this is pretty silly. Still, if you have the need to have the best and fastest everything- including scooters, this is your machine. The technology is all there- automatic transmission, digital everything, etc, but it is soo unscooter-like- big, heavy and not so good on fuel economy.
From Business Week of all places… The scooter will bear the Gilera name, with its 75bhp 90 degree V-twin motor giving it a top speed of more than 120mph. Perhaps even more significantly, the Aprilia engine comes straight from the new Aprilia Mana and features an advanced electronic transmission. A simple touch of the button on the handlebar and you enter into a completely different world. Three separate mappings for the totally automatic transmission and a sequential shift with 7 gears make it easy to find the best-adapted configuration for the riding conditions.
Here’s the YouTube video from the show-
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