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Quadro4 4-wheel scooter test: the Quadroture du cercle

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Long awaited, the world’s first 4-wheel scooter is finally on the market. MNC gives you its first impressions of this atypical vehicle, which upsets the codes of the scooter genre and turns heads in its path… First try.

Quadro4: a long gestation…

Quadro Technologie is originally an Italian company created by Luciano Marabese, president of Marabese Design (ex Studio Marabese), whose activity is to develop innovative concepts and designs for many players in the motorcycle industry (Aprilia , Moto Guzzi, Triumph, Moto Morini, Yamaha, Gilera …) and in particular Piaggio, for which Marabese Design imagined the concept of two-wheel and parallelogram front axle.

A concept first retaken by Piaggio in 1999, but which finally gave birth to the marketed at the end of 2006.

Building on the success and growing interest of users for this new type of 3-wheel scooters, Luciano Marabese continued to work around this concept by developing an even more efficient hydropneumatic pendulum suspension system, called HTS (Hydraulic Tilting System)..

In the process, he created the company Quadro Technologie in 2010 and presented his prototypes and at the Eicma fair in the same year..

The Italian brand first decides to market the three-wheeler model, the, which will then become 350S and then quite simply Quadro S.

In 2011, the company went under the Swiss flag: based in Vacalo, in Ticino, it is chaired by Luciano’s son, Riccardo Marabese (his brother, Roberto is also present). The Quadro4 is still waiting, but the brand is working hard on its development and development in order to arrive with an irreproachable product..

While waiting for the arrival of the prodigal son, sales of Quadro 3-wheels are progressing nicely, with nearly 5,000 scooters sold around the world (the brand is now present in 17 countries with nearly 500 points of sale), including 2,700 units in France.

Finally, at the show, Quadro presents the final version of the after four years of development.

Compared to the model initially presented, 78% of the parts have been redesigned and improved, in particular the engine manufactured by Aeon (Taiwan) but designed in Switzerland, which now has a balance wheel, a differential and a double final belt transmission.

The machine also offers a combined braking system on all four wheels (made in Spain), an HTS system machined in aluminum (Italy) and a frame produced in Europe. The assembly and manufacture of the other elements are carried out in Taiwan, at Aeon Motors.

4-wheel scooter: the Quadroture of the circle ?

By going from 2 to 3 wheels, the scooter has been able to democratize and expand its use to a clientele of motorists hitherto reluctant to leave the protective cabin of their car. Especially since it has freed itself from the constraints of power limitation and specific motorcycle license by taking advantage of an approval in category L5e (motor tricycles and quadricycles), much less restrictive.

Suddenly, with a simple car license, through the equivalence allowing a motorist to drive a 125 cm3 two-wheeler or a motor tricycle, a new market has rapidly developed (since 2011 it takes one and two years of license B to benefit from the equivalence).

This market is currently dominated by the Italian manufacturer Piaggio thanks to its 3-wheel MP3 125, then (Large Tread) approved L5e, both equipped with a front axle technology imagined by a certain … Luciano Marabese, the founder of Quadro Technology !

Since then, other players have appeared on this market with vehicles such as the, the or the (at MBK). Car manufacturers are also trying to provide a response to these mobility needs with vehicles such as the Smart, the Renault Twizy, Toyota iQ … but these remain in the end cars, unable to move serenely between the lines. of cars !

The arrival of the Quadro4, the world’s first approved 4-wheel scooter, will it change the game and attract a new fringe of users convinced by the superiority of this new 4-wheel scooter in terms of safety? This is the whole question and the bet of Quadro Vehicles, a daring small start-up which is betting everything for all against the giants of the urban mobility sector….

The future will tell, but for the moment let’s not shy away from our pleasure to finally have the privilege of trying one of the first Quadro4 to arrive in France and distributed by the company RMF (Royal Moto France)! This year, despite a somewhat late arrival, the brand plans to sell a few thousand in France and is already announcing 400 pre-orders, which is a rather promising signal. Ready? On the way !

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