Voxon roadster

[XS1100 0]

whats this all about then?

[Chadatious 0]

Wow I like that a lot

[firehawk 0]

sexy as fook

[dick65 0]

well nice

[Davehutch-hutchs 0]

not my cup of tea , its not very often i turn my nose up at a bike

[Stue11 0]

@Davehutch wrote:

not my cup of tea , its not very often i turn my nose up at a bike

[XS1100 0]

Weirdos

[Chadatious 0]

Brown nose stue

And Dave, its cos the kings made you a snob.

[Davehutch-hutchs 0]

@XS1100 wrote:

Weirdos

bloody hell Stue !!!!!!!! we are in Gaz's gang

[XS1100 0]

Took yer time though!!!!!

[Stue11 0]

@Davehutch wrote:

@XS1100 wrote:

Weirdos

bloody hell Stue !!!!!!!! we are in Gaz's gang

[smilinjack 0]

i walked past the Voxan factory once. Unfortunately it was closed. I think it's gone tits up now hasn't it?

[XS1100 0]

Haloperidol, five milligrams
Which one's that?
Little white ones, w, w, w for white
W for white, okay, check you are welcome

[karlo 0]

Voxan was created in 1995 as France’s only modern-day motorcycle manufacturer. Ultimately an unsuccessful venture, the company was purchased by automaker Venturi in 2010.

Several different French engineers were involved in bring the first Voxan bike to life at the company’s inception. Three bikes models were presented in 1997 at Paris’ World Motor show, generating a flurry of excitement in the French press. The country was so enthusiastic about having its own motorbike manufacturer that the Dassault aeronautics company invested money in the product line, and the French president asked for a private viewing of the cycles in 1999.

So fervent was the demand for Voxan bikes that the models themselves were rushed into production before they had been fully tested for design flaws. As a result the company’s first bike, the ’99 Roadster, was a victim of a delayed release date and an improperly-executed marketing campaign.

Even under the best circumstances, Voxan would have faced stiff competition from popular Italian and Japanese bikes already on the market. As it stood, the Roadster suffered from poor sales that doomed the company from the start. By the time the Café Racer was released in 2000 and the Scrambler in 2001, Voxan was already having trouble paying its workers and was considering bankruptcy.

The company was saved by entrepreneur Didier Cazeaux and the Société de Développement et de Participation, who bought Voxan and ensured the company could continue producing motorbikes. The new influx of capital gave the company the ability to rehire Sacha Lakic, the designer of the ’99 Roadster. Lakic produced two more models for Voxan – 2004’s Black Magic and 2005’s Charade. These were minimalist naked bikes designed around an engine and chassis unique to Voxan.

The new models could not save Voxan from its financial troubles, and the company was one again on the brink by the end of the decade. This time, philanthropist Gildo Pallanca Pastor purchased the company and merged it with his Venturi automobile division, which he had saved from a similar fate in 2001. Pastor had worked with Sacha Lakic to transform Venturi into a specialty car company focused on electric and solar powered cars, and proposed a similar future for Voxon in 2010.

The remaining gas-powered Voxon bikes are already considered collector’s pieces, as the company abandons their previous models in favor of a new product line powered entirely by electricity. Voxan predicts a three-year wait for the first of this new generation of motorcycles.


http://www.motor-scooters.com/motorscootermanufacturers/voxan.html



I quite like it, wonder where the styling came from