Yamaha Mio Sporty

One look at the 2021 Yamaha Mio Sporty is enough to confirm that its overall styling is inclined towards the urban younger audience more than any other age group. The scooter, with its slim and lean profile, looks chic and simple. While the ‘Casual Essentials’ variant of the Mio Sporty comes with girly body decals on its rear side panels, the ‘Matte Bold Edition’ variant looks quite sober with its all-matte paint scheme.

The front styling of the 2021 Yamaha Mio Sporty has some distinctive thanks to the U-shaped light cluster placed on the lower part of the front apron. This complete light cluster has clear lens turn indicators on either side and an auxiliary lamp in the middle. Above the middle of this light cluster, there are two small air vents positioned, thus adding furthermore character to the front profile of the scooter. The main headlamp is placed above the handlebar cowl.

The 2021 Yamaha Mio Sporty has a very simple and minimalist design when you see it from sideways. The slim-looking rear side body panels blend in nicely with the black finished floorboard, which looks quite small but is accommodating enough for even taller riders. There is a very small storage compartment recessed in the back portion of the apron, which is good enough for storing small knick-knacks.

At the back, the 2021 Yamaha Mio Sporty has got a very nice-looking crown-shaped tail lamp cluster, which is quite large going by the overall size of the scooter. The clear lens turn indicators are accommodated within this tail lamp cluster, with a very big single-piece pillion grab handle placed above it. Even the five-spoke alloy wheels, as well as exhaust pipe, are finished in an all-black theme, with the latter getting a premium-looking chrome shield on it.

The instrument console of the 2021 Yamaha Mio Sporty too is a very simple affair, and it packs in only analog dials for the speedometer, odometer, and fuel gauge. The cost-cutting is quite evident from the limited features on board this scooter.

Powering the 2021 Yamaha Mio Sporty is Yamaha’s smallest four-stroke engine for the Philippine two-wheeler market – a four-stroke, single-cylinder, air-cooled, carbureted, 114cc engine. This engine, here on the Mio Sporty, makes up 7.7 PS of maximum power output and 7.2 Nm of peak torque output.

The 2021 Yamaha Mio Sporty does lack a number of features that are nowadays quite mainstream for the scooter segment, given its entry-level image. However, the scooter gets the compulsory add-ons like a key shutter mechanism for the ignition keyhole as well as a disc brake at the front.

For its price, the 2021 Yamaha Mio Sporty is a stupendous value for money, given its mechanical prowess, it has in terms of powertrain and chassis. While the scooter could have been equipped with few more useful features, it still is one very potent option for an everyday ride.