Honda CHF50
Overview
 
The CHF50 is a scooter
Scooter (motorcycle)
A scooter is a motorcycle with step-through frame and a platform for the operator's feet. Elements of scooter design have been present in some of the earliest motorcycles, and motorcycles identifiable as scooters have been made from 1914 or earlier...

 manufactured by Honda
Honda
is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than...

. It is called the Metropolitan in the United States, the Jazz in Canada, the Scoopy in Australia and the Crea Scoopy in Japan. The 2002 to 2005 models can reach a speed of 38 mile per hour at 8,000 rpm whereas 2006 and later models can reach 43 mph (19.2 m/s) at 8,850rpm. Power is rated at 4 hp. The Metropolitan has typical fuel economy of 80 –.
While the CHF50 is one of several 49 cc scooters offered by Honda since the early 1960s, it is notable for its "classic
Retro
Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, that has since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. The use of "retro" style iconography and imagery interjected into post-modern art, advertising, mass media, etc...

" Vespa
Vespa
Vespa is an Italian brand of scooter manufactured by Piaggio. The name means wasp in Italian.The Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co. S.p.A...

-inspired styling and modern mechanical parts.
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