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Happenings In Motorcycling
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Ital and France Unite
At the recent Qatar MX Challenge in the Middle East, event head Sheikh Khalid bin Ali AIThani (right) chatted with former motocross champion Georges Jobe, who was largely
responsible for bringing many of the top European riders to Qatar. The venue will likely
host a Grand Prix and the Motocross des Nations in 2003.
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ALAN CATHCART
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Piaggio Continues to Invest
Though cash-strapped at home in Italy thanks to huge number of unsold 50cc
scooters cluttering its warehouses. P1aggio has continued to invest in its growing
Asian operation. with a $40 million buyout of the minority stake in Pillggio Greaves
Vehicles. its indian-market joint venture manufacturing the Ape three-wheeler light
tnack, in which it previously held a 51-percent majority shareholding. in partnership
with the IocaI Oruves company. Piaggio intends to double production this year to
50,000 units, as well as to restart small motorcycle and scooter production in the
sUb-c:ontineat, with 30.000 examples of Its l5Occ- and l8Occ-modellineup scheduled to be manufadured there in 2002.
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