Over 50 million of the things

Blimey is all I can say..

http://tinyurl.com/r5fcl

 

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Vass wrote

Force9 do your DN serving as well do they? Sympathies.

 

Amazing little runabout innit.

Wouldn't mind 10p for every one sold.

 

"Not found".

 

Wik emerged from their own little world to say

http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/5288/ is the actual URL and works fine here in
NTLWorld

**** knows why the TC needed to tinyurl it.

 

Hmm, must have temporarily gone "off-air" as it's back now.

50 million is quite staggering, yes.

 

Heh, I'm using NTHell, too. Go figure.

Harsh, brother, harsh...

 

Honda sets a world production record that will stand for eternity

February 28, 2006 One of the most significant milestones in history
went by without fanfare when total worldwide production of Honda’s
Super Cub scooter reached 50 million units late in December, 2005.
Launched in 1958, the Super Cub’s effort in becoming the first motor
vehicle to achieve total sales of 50 million units is quite incredible.
The best selling automotive design in history is the Volkswagen Beetle
which sold an incredible 21,529,464 over 68 years before it ceased
production in Mexico in 2003, surpassing the previous titleholder, the
Model T Ford (16.5 million) in 1972. Though the 21.5 million figure for
cars might come under threat when China's automotive industry hits full
swing, the Beetle’s 68 year production period and the Honda Cub’s 50
million plus production run are likely to remain world records for
eternity. With new technologies and ever-stricter emissions and
marketplace imperatives requiring constant renewal, no model will ever
be as futuristic enough in its design to produce 50 million units
again. In the main image, one of these bikes is the first supercub and
the other is the 50 millionth - which is which?

 

That's a mathematically false claim.

 

Wasn't there a story of Honda having one that had done some insane
amount of miles bought back off someone, because it had survived for so
long.

It would suit me down to the ground at the mo, seems a shame to take the
Bandit 9 miles round trip to university every week day. Even the CG125
is a little bit of an overkill for that.

True.

 

Muck said...

Some Japanese bods from Honda were told that there was a CB250RS with
180,000 miles on it in Slough. They didn't believe it until they were
taken to Hein Gericke and saw the sorry shit state of my old one, then
they believed it.

 

That was with or without the ducktape paint job?

I wonder how many miles I'll get out of my CG before it needs an engine
rebuild?

 

Muck said...

Without the duct tape, it was in very scruffy blue attire.

 

I am not so sure it is. For example, it depends on the assumption that
mankind or the world or even the universe will eventually end. IMHO
unreasonable.

 

I meant to say *not* an unreasonable assumption.