{"id":4404,"date":"2026-09-18T10:16:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montesa.com\/?page_id=4404"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:18:03","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montesa.com\/en\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"80 years of Montesa history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From its foundation in 1945 until today. Montesa, a very alive brand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The history of Spanish motorcycle industry is very passionate. With hundreds of short scale brands, only a few of them survived until the end of the 60&#8217;s of XX century. Only the ones with bigger volumes managed to survive to the improvement of Spain economic conditions and the beginnings of the affordable automobiles. The stronger brands found new business opportunities in the off road motorbikes until oil crisis and the end of dictatorship industry protection in mid 70\u2019s. These two factors made disappear an important part of the Spanish motorcycle industrial history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this section we propose you a quick journey through the history of the Montesa brand, one of the most known Spanish brands, still active today and still winning world titles with the motorcycles it produces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Viva Montesa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From its foundation in 1945 until today. Montesa, a very alive brand. &nbsp; The history of Spanish motorcycle industry is very passionate. With hundreds of short scale brands, only a few of them survived until the end of the 60&#8217;s of XX century. 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