APRIL 2000

Rivoli April 200 A. Stola and Nobuyuki Ishihara shake hands after signing the contract.STOLA s.p.a. was already a model supplier for the Honda Style Centers in both Germany and Japan.In April 2000, an unusual job for the two-wheeler sector was started for the Honda Development Research Center in Rome.
It was complex work, a clay model was provided by the Centro Stile of Rome and from that a working prototype was require which would include particularly advanced prototype equipment.

Rivoli April 2000 Just signed the contracts in a souvenir photo. From left Tiziano Novo Tomoyuki Okura, Nobuyuki Ishihara, Alfredo Stola, Bruno Arienti, Carlo Mantovani and Gioachino Grande.

Along with the style model, the Lazio research centre supplied an example of the then current production Honda SH scooter, the Stola technicians used this as a basis to make all the necessary modifications.
Honda wanted a complete and dedicated team for this turnkey project and so it was that Tiziano Novo, Carlo Mantovani, Felice Chiara, Bruno Arienti, and Giochino Grande would manage the project, which was due to be completed at the end of December 2000.

The Honda team with whom the Stola's would work were Nobuyuki Ishihara, Director of the European R&D Center and his assistants Tomoyuki Okura, Ken Yamaguci, Yutaka Kawasaki, Gian Varlo Giliberti Calderon, and Angelo Coletta.
The work included Scanning, engineering, construction of models, molds and detailed assembly studies, all with the final objective of the prototype in mind.
Simultaneously the technicians of the Atessa Italian production plant would verify and check the work.