Zanella (motorcycle manufacturer)
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| legal form | Private company |
| Seat | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| management | Walter Steiner |
| Branch | motorcycles |
| Website | http://www.zanella.com.ar/ |
Zanella is an Argentine manufacturer of mopeds , motorcycles , scooters and quads from 100, 125 up to 200 cm³ displacement.
history
The company was founded in 1948 by Juan Zanella and is based in Buenos Aires . The original two-stroke engines were developed by Fabio Taglioni and built under license from the Italian motorcycle manufacturer Ceccato .
Zanella employed around 1,000 workers and had a production capacity of 12,000 vehicles per month. Important export markets for Zanella included a. Brazil , Chile , Cuba , Uruguay , and some African countries .
From 1990 to 1999 Zanella worked closely with Yamaha in a joint venture . Zanella has been selling and manufacturing products from the Italian company Minarelli since 2000 .
In 2017, Zanella had a market share of 20 percent in Argentina.
literature
- Erwin Tragatsch : All motorcycles from 1894 to today . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-87943-410-7
Web links
- Zanella website , spanish
- Zanella at Sheldon's European Motorcycle Universe , English
- Zanella 125 on Flickr
Individual evidence
- ^ Erwin Tragatsch: The world's motorcycles, 1894-1963: a record of 70 years of motorcycle production . Temple Press, Santa Barbara 1964, pp. 191 . , English
- ↑ a b c Nuestra historia. In: zanella.com.ar. Retrieved July 18, 2018 (Spanish).
- ↑ Elvio Orellana: Objetivo Zanella: 200 mil motos. In: lavoz.com.ar. January 18, 2018, accessed July 18, 2018 .