Scooters’ flood: Choose wisely

THE observation of rider Jun Roque, of Samal, Bataan (…4566) is correct.  Having been to Samal in the late ‘60s, the Roque clan is big, if not the biggest.

They compose the professional group and small and middle businessmen regularly buying goods in the Manila and Suburbs in their owner jeeps with trailers.

The clan of Jessica Sanchez is not as big, and large, as the clan of Roque, the Sanchez families being from Pampanga.
The Bandera Motor Section is elated that it is now reaching out in Luzon.

Thank you, Jun Roque, thank you riders in Luzon.  This is the start of our friendship. Roque is bothered that three Japanese manufacturers are dumping scooters with weird and alluring models in Central Luzon, whose plain flat vast lands extend to four main provinces.

The downpayment is not even hurting to shallow pockets. But the “shallow” group is what is driving the motorcycle industry, just as the Ho Chi Minh City example, where an over a million of motorcyles keep the city, and province, economically alive and kicking every day.

Yes, there’s been a recent dumping of scooters in the Philippines, from Japanese, mainland Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers.

We have nothing against scooters.  But we, like Roque, are bothered by the flood of scooters, sold even in not-so mountainous towns.

We agree with Roque that these horses can’t climb mountains, brave the floods in Metro Manila, Visayas and Mindanao. The scooters can’t take the regular load of the habal-habal and skylab.

The scooters are belt-driven and the motorcycles are drive-chain propelled.  But why flood the Philippines with scooters? This month of bonuses, the Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers dropped their downpayments to even lower than P1,000.
In buying scooters, low-downpayment tag is unwise.

We will not elaborate much, but the Japanese, Taiwanese and Chinese scooters are not suitable for the general terrain in the Philippines.  That’s why, about a year ago, scooter sales and turnovers are low.

Rains, distance and extreme hot weather are the Waterloo of the scooter riders.  The scooters could be suitable in subdivisions.  Outside, in the jungle of roads and elements, the motorcycles can endure the punishment.

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