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Vespa — an Italian brand of motor scooters owned by the Piaggio Group. Pages in category "Piaggio Vespa" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Doodle Bug (1946–1948), built by the Beam Manufacturing Company, and sold by retailer Gambles store chain under the Hiawatha name — USA; Douglas (Vespa) (1951–1965), licence built Vespas — United Kingdom [53] Ducati — Italy; Durkopp (1954–1960) — West Germany [54] [23] FAKA (1952–1957), Took over production of Walba scooters ...
The Vespa 946 was also launched this year, along with the new Vespa Primavera, the latest evolution of the "small body" family. In 2013 Vespa's worldwide sales numbered almost 190,000 units; in 2004 the figure stood at 58,000. In ten years of continuous progression over 1.3 million new Vespas have been produced.
Vespa Sprint is a 150cc, 2 stroke scooter made by Piaggio from 1965 to 1976. [1] The scooter came in two different versions. Early models, called the Vespa Sprint, were made until 1974. Later models, called the Vespa Sprint Veloce, were made from 1969 to 1979. [1] The big update with the Sprint Veloce was in the engine.
The Vespa 946 is a scooter announced by Piaggio, sold under their Vespa brand, that sold starting in July 2013. Piaggio presented the retro-futurist Vespa Quarantasei concept , based on the 1945 Vespa MP6 prototype, at the 2011 EICMA motorcycle show.
In response to rising fuel prices in the first decade of the 2000s, U.S. scooter and moped ridership saw a resurgence. [14] Sales of motorcycles and scooters declined 43.2% in 2009, and continued to decrease in the first quarter of 2010, with scooter sales doing worst, down 13.3% compared to a 4.6% drop for all two-wheelers.
The Vespa 150 TAP was an anti-tank scooter made in the 1950s from a Vespa scooter for use with French paratroops (troupes aéroportées, TAP). Introduced in 1956 and updated in 1959, the scooter was produced by Ateliers de Construction de Motocycles et Automobiles (ACMA), the licensed assembler of Vespas in France at the time. [ 1 ]
The Vespa LX is a scooter that was made by Piaggio from 2006 until 2014. The LX 150 uses the same frame as the LX 50 but features a 150 cc engine capable of a listed maximum speed of 59 mph (95 km/h). The LX 150, like all modern Vespa scooters features a 4-stroke single overhead camshaft and steel frame construction.