List of scooter manufacturers
Note there is no single fixed definition of a scooter, but generally a smaller motorcycle with a step-through frame is considered a scooter, especially if it has a floor for the rider's feet. Other common traits of scooters can include: bodywork, motors combined with the suspension or wheel, leg shields, smaller wheels than a conventional motorcycle, and an alternative to a chain drive.
Scooters share traits with mopeds, and some models could even be considered both a moped and a scooter. Adding to the confusion in many areas most scooters are road registered in the same category originally designed for mopeds, leading to scooters being referred to as "mopeds" in such areas. Underbones also share traits with scooters, but they are generally not strictly considered scooters in the purest sense as they do not have a floor, but they are often casually referred to as scooters.
Scooter brands in production
Scooter brands and manufacturers no longer in scooter production
- Accumolli, Piaggio powered — Italy
- Achilles — West Germany
- ACMA , Ateliers de Construction de Motocycles et Accessoires — France
- Adonis, Société du Scooters Adonis; 50 and 75cc VAP engines — France
- Aermoto, Sachs powered — Italy
- Agrati, Merged with Garelli in 1961, scooters branded as Garelli Capri from 1965 — Italy
- Allstate, Brand of retailer Sears; manufactured by Cushman or Piaggio and others — USA
- Vespa / Allwyn Pushpak — India
- Arctic Cat — USA
- Ardent, Manufacture Française des Scooters Ardents; initially motorcycle scooter hybrids; Le Poulain and VAP engines — France
- Auteco Lambretta / Auteco, licensed Lambrettas;, Bajaj importers — Colombia
- Autoglider — United Kingdom
- Lambretta / API — India
- Bernardet — France
- BSA — United Kingdom
- Bitri — Netherlands
- Bond, Makers of Bond Minicars; Villiers powered — United Kingdom
- Brumana Pugliese, Lambretta models plus its own models — Brazil
- Busi — Italy
- Cagiva — Italy
- Cazenave, Mistral and Ydral engines — France
- Čezeta, — Czechoslovakia
- Concord, See Manurhin below — France
- Cushman — USA
- Cycle-Scoot — USA
- Danmotor Vespa Indonesia, Licensed Vespa 90cc and 150cc models — Denmark / Indonesia
- DKR, DKR Company formed by Day & Robinson of Willenhall Radiators, and Cyril Kieft, Villiers engined. — United Kingdom
- DKW — Germany / West Germany
- DMW — United Kingdom
- Doodle Bug, Brand of retailer Gambles store chain — USA
- Vespa — United Kingdom
- Ducati — Italy
- Durkopp — West Germany
- FAKA, Took over production of Walba scooters — West Germany
- Lambretta — France
- FIAMC — Italy
- Fly, Distributors of Chinese built scooters — USA
- Garelli, post-merger re-branding of the Agrati Capri — Italy
- Generic, Former brand of Austrian KSR Group used for Asian imports — Austria
- Glas Gogo — West Germany
- Guizzo, built by Palmieri & Gulinelli of Bologna — Italy
- Harley-Davidson — USA
- Heinkel — West Germany
- Hercules, Absorbed into Sachs in the late 1950s — West Germany
- Indian — USA
- Iso — Italy
- Italjet — Italy
- IWL — East Germany
- James — United Kingdom
- Jawa — Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic
- Jonghi — France
- Kieft, Importer and distributor of the German Hercules Company mopeds and scooters; Succeeded by the DKR Company — United Kingdom
- Kinetic — India
- Kinetic Honda — India
- Kreidler — Germany
- KTM — Austria
- Lacombe, P.P. Roussey two-stroke engines; also known as the Comindus. — France
- Lambretta — Italy
- Lambretta do Brasil — Brazil
- Lamby, brand of API — India
- Laverda, models included Mini 60 and Mini-Scooter., re-branded Asian sourced scooters — Italy
- Lohner, Rotax-Sachs and ILO engines; Merged with the Rotax engine company to form Lohner-Rotax in 1959 — Austria
- MAC, brand of API — India
- Maico-letta — West Germany
- Manurhin, Initially a licensed DKW Hobby scooter; sold in the UK as Concord brand — France
- Mercury — United Kingdom
- Messerschmitt — Germany
- Meteora, NSU powered — Italy
- Mitsubishi — Japan
- Molot, See Vyatka below — Russia
- Monark — Sweden
- Motobi, 50 and 100cc scooters; Relaunched by Austrian partnership in 2010 including a scooter line — Italy
- Motoflash — Italy
- Motobloc / Riva Sport Industries , Initially sold the Swiss AMI scooter as the Ami Motobloc. The Sulky was developed with RSI — France
- Moto Guzzi — Italy
- Motovespa, licensed Vespas, taken over by Piaggio — Spain
- MV Agusta — Italy
- Nibbio, Initially manufactured by Gianca, transferring to San Christopher in 1949 — Italy
- NSU, licensed Lambretta 125cc LC;, their own Prima range — Germany
- N-Zeta — New Zealand
- Paloma, Etablissements Michel Humblot; Acquired by Cazenave in 1964 — France
- Parilla — Italy
- Lambretta — Brazil
- Peirspeed, Re-badged TGB — USA
- Piatti — Belgium / United Kingdom
- Powell Manufacturing Company — USA
- Prina — Italy
- Puch — Austria
- Rabbit, Brand of Fuji Heavy Industries — Japan
- Ravat — France
- Reynolds Runabout, Jackson Car Manufacturing Co and later by A. W. Wall — United Kingdom
- Riverside, Brand of retailer Montgomery Ward manufactured by various imported makes — USA
- Rumi — Italy
- Schwinn — USA
- Scootavia — France
- Scoto, Moped/scooter hybrid built by MGT — France
- Scotta, 125cc Motorcycle/scooter hybrid — France
- Lambretta / Lambretta SAL — Spain
- Siam-bretta, Licence built Lambrettas — Argentina
- Siamoto — Italy
- SICRAF , Societe Industrielle de Construction et de Recherches Automobiles de France; Aubier-Dunne and Ydral engines — France
- SIL, Lambretta GP/DL made with plant acquired from the defunct Lambretta — India
- SIM / SIM-Moretti — Italy
- Simard, Ydral and AMC engines — France
- Simonetta / San Cristoforo, Later version of the Nibbio built by San Cristoforo under licence from Ravat of France — Italy
- Simson — East Germany / Germany
- Stewart, acquired by BSA — New Zealand
- Sun / Raleigh, Sun Cycle & Fittings Co Ltd was absorbed by Raleigh Industries in 1958 — United Kingdom
- Swallow — United Kingdom
- Tamoto Motorcycle/scooter hybrids — France
- Tempo, Sachs powered; produced at Progress-Werke-Oberkirch AG in Germany — Norway
- Terrot — France
- Tomos / Tomos Puch, Moped manufacturer with scooter-like models and a license built Puch scooter. Bankrupt 2019 — Yugoslavia
- TN'G — USA
- Toscane — Italy
- Triumph — United Kingdom
- TWN — Germany
- "Tula" / TMZ Initially based on the German Goggo TA200, Tula also made three-wheeled scooters — USSR
- Vectrix — USA
- Velocette — United Kingdom
- Vento — USA
- Venus — Germany
- Vivani — Italy
- Vyatka Initially an unlicensed copy of the Vespa 150; In 1999 Vyatskiye Polyany Machine-Building Plant was renamed Molot and started production of the Strizh scooter, but by 2017 was struggling financially — USSR / Russia
- Walba, One of the first post-war German scooters, production taken over by FAKA — West Germany
- WFM Manufacturers of the Osa scooter, the Polish People's Republic's only native scooter — Poland
- Zeta — Italyki
- ZID Degtyaryov Plant motorcycle manufacturer sold Lifan based scooters until at least 2018 — Russia
- Zündapp — West Germany