Hyosung Aquila GV250 vs TVS Zest 110

Touring is becoming a fashion among Indian motoring enthusiasts. And why should it not? We have vast expanse of open lands, biodiversity worth experiencing and some really good roads that are connected by many miserable ones with the difficulty level equivalent of playing Ping Pong with a Chinese national, giving riders a sense of achievement like no other.  Royal Enfield and Harley-Davidson have been capitalising on this pretty well for a while now and it is time that few others get to ride the wave, even if that won’t dent the sales of the big two. Hyosung is the front runner among the alternative premium motorcycle brands for cruisers and this time we test their new entry-level model, the Aquila 250.

With this matte series, the manufacturer is looking to add some freshness to the trendy little scooter. We find out how successful they have been in doing that.

Petite. Pretty. Light. And likable. That’s the TVS Scooty Zest for you. A scooter targeted at the fairer sex, but one that I have been enjoying immensely. However, now it’s time to say good-bye, but not without recapping our few months with this peppy little thing.   

In the last report we brought you up to speed with what the TVS Scooty Zest 110 was all about: a light, small scooter marketed for the fairer sex. We appreciated that it was easy to ride, could carry stuff around, and even in dense traffic and with a careless right wrist, it still managed to return over 40kmpl. The claimed, of course, is over 60kmpl. So does it then work for college going girls as Ms Anushka Sharma so smilingly claims in the TV ad?