PRETTY, PETITE & PLUCKY!

TVS are at it again. Continuing in the brilliant vein as the Victor and the Fiero F2 has not been easy but establishing themselves as two-wheeler makers par excellence is now becoming a reality. The Scooty Pep is the next step in their endeavour.

Riding the new Scooty Pep in and around Pune city the last couple of weeks has been a revelation. Of the pleasantest, and of the most distinctly attention grabbing kind. And almost all of the attention has been from the female of the species; the college going teen, the business-attired sophisticate, and even the housewife next door has not been immune to casting covert or not so covert looks at the diminutive Pep.

Launched sometime in the mid-nineties the Scooty had all the trappings of a best-seller. A refined powerplant, excellent dynamics, contemporary styling (for its time) and a host of other traits had the TVS-Suzuki cash registers ringing. Quite a complete package among the step-thru lot. Come the new millennium and the eco corps and the crusade for a cleaner environs sounded the death knell for two-stroke biking the world over. Which was the first nail in the coffin for the two-stroke Scooty. And then the market saw a rash of new scoots which were as contemporary if not better than the Scooty. All the same the four-strokers boom saw a complete transformation in the biking scenario. Which has served to bring about a complete revamp of the Scooty by TVS.

Year 2003 is an important one for TVS, with the launch of almost six models spanning almost every motorcycling segment. The wave that began with the Fiero F2 is now continued by the Scooty Pep.