HISTORY OF PUCH        
(some pictures are from Das Grosse Puch Buch by H. Weishaupt Verlag-Graz, ISBN 3-900310-49-1)

But the most people will remember Puch for it's mopeds. In Holland the
Puch MV50 and VS50 were very popular in the sixties and seventies.
But although they were build 563.000 units in all the years,
the real 'champion' of production is the immense popular
Puch Maxi, which was build from 1969 until 1987 in Graz.
More than 3 million were build and the engine is still being used today!!

Here you see a design study for a new moped in the seventies.
Although rejected, the frame design was used by Honda to build their
MB50 and MT50 models. Puch is everywhere.....

Another design study was this scooter. Lateron, a partnership with Suzuki
led to the production of this model (see below). It drives in many  south American
countries under the name Lido Vario, but in Holland we know it as the
Suzuki CP 50.

Puch was the worlds first with a carbon frame bicycle,
the first with a cardan-driven moped design,
the first with an electrical moped,
the first with an universal 'click'-on engine for bicycles
(like the Dutch Spartamet),
the first with a catalysor exhaust for mopeds,
and much much more....
Puch was (and is) a world leader for innovation and quality!!