Mopeds India Limited was a two wheeler manufacturer based in India, which manufactured and sold the Suvega range of

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under technical collaboration with

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. Its first model was the Motobécane

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sold under the name Suvega Super 50. It was the first company in India to launch Mopeds in India which was the largest selling two-wheeler segment till 80's and was India's largest selling moped till early 80's.

History

The company was incorporated in

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as Mopeds India Limited by the textile group KLV under K.L.Varadarajan. The manufacturing plant was set up in the early 1960s in

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. The first model, the

, was designed in 1949 in

and was manufactured in several countries for the next 48 years, selling close to over 14 million mopeds. The company had a racing team as well and between the 1960s and 1980s it won most of the competition under the 50cc class in

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races. The company was closed in 1988. At one time it was the largest manufacturer of mopeds in the country. The company was a public company. Motobecane Mobylette vr grey TCE

Models

The models manufactured by Mopeds India were *Suvega Super 50 – The original Motobécane Mobylette and the largest selling model. *Suvega 717 – *Suvega Samrat – Indianised Moped with a Fuel tank placed like a motorcycle *Suvega Super Delux –

References

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