Many of us had motorcycles or scooters in our youth and we look fondly back on these days with rose tinted glasses. We maybe toy with the idea of replacing our car with a scooter or even buying one as an additional vehicle but we rarely act on it and use our cars for our daily journey to work, to pick up the kids or do the shopping.
What we fail to realise is that scooters are statistically cheaper than cars. So if we acted on this leap of faith, we would actually save ourselves quite a lot of money!
Forget nostalgia; forget the wind through our hair, what we should actually be looking at is the fact that we can save a considerable amount by switching to a different type of vehicle.
Scooters cost less than a car – of course, which makes them financially viable – and they also use far less petrol than a car. We also save on parking costs, not to mention the fact that it is far easier to park a scooter and to drive it through the streets of any town.
OK, it is not so appealing in the wet or cold winters and these are a few of the drawbacks. But if you do the sums, you may well decide that a scooter, not a car, is your vehicle of choice.
