Quadro 4: scooter review | Martin Love
by Martin Love from Technology | The Guardian on (#FHMR)
The Quadro is a scooter with four tilting wheels. You can say goodbye to falling off on sharp corners
Price: 8,499
MPG: 70
Top speed: 85mph
Something strange is happening in scooter land. They can't decide how many wheels they need. For decades, it was two, i(C)videmment! But then some sprouted an extra wheel at the front. Now some of these three-wheelers have grown another wheel, this time at the back. Pedants will be thinking: "Four wheels. Engine. Seat. Brakes. Isn't that a car?" In fact, it's a Quadro: the world's first four-wheeled scooter. In a pub-quiz twist of nomenclature, it is also the world's first four-wheel tricycle - the two back wheels are so close together they are classed as a single unit.
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