Vespa - a cult vehicle from Italy

Vespa - a cult vehicle from ItalyNew life
Italy in the '50s: Some think of Capri Fischer, Sophia Loren and other than a few of the Vespa. The cult scooter has succeeded in spite of faster cars at least until the present time.
 In the beginning was the end of war. In 1946 the series began production of the Vespa, was commissioned by Enrico Piaggio. The Italians had created up to that war planes, with the construction of a scooter he put on a new source of income. Previously he had with the predecessor of the Vespa, the MP5 Paperino experimenting. But Piaggio was not satisfied with the model Paperino, whose name is the Italian name for Donald Duck, and was built only about 100 vehicles of this type. Read this information, there are at Austro vespa, where almost every available model - from Paperino up to the special Ferrari models in 2001 and Trafeli 2003 - is shown provided virtually complete with pictures and historical facts.A huge benefit of the original Vespa was that many items were already available from the aircraft. And so were the first models made of materials that could be found in the former Piaggio aircraft factory halls: tires, engine parts and metals were recycled. And as an engineer Corradino D'Ascanio was not a big fan of motorcycles, he designed a two-wheeler, which had none of the properties he hated how oily chains and exposed engines. The Discovery Channel has gathered this information for a documentary, there is in the Vespa blog can be seen on YouTube.Not only the motor scooter itself regularly managed to attract attention, even accompanying advertising and merchandising products brought the scooter again and again on everyone's lips. Advertising Vespas had been brave from the beginning. First, we pointed out the main advantages of the motor scooter to the car, but soon enough use was made of attractive young ladies as "advertising".Advertising of courage to abstruseSometimes it was dashing to hitchhikers who were not impressed by fancy cars, but only travel along on the pillion seat of a Vespa wanted. Another time, the "Double Fun" between work and play using depicts lovely twins. For the Spanish market, there was a bizarre clip in which a scantily clad dance troupe recruited singing for the Vespa.While women had on Vespa advertising posters and calendar pages, first served exclusively as a pretty accessory, saw they were later presented as a buyer and female riders. Nicely shows the Flickr set "Pin-Up Girls" this development.In this country, the Vespa quickly became a bestseller. How has the history of the cult scooter from a German perspective is, you can the article - see "Vespa cult on two wheels" in the King Pictures blog. The blog project was unfortunately true for only three months in 2009, the Vespa-entry is a real highlight. He is one among other things, how many D-Mark of willing buyers had to shell out originally to come into the possession of a Vespa, and what tips and tricks, the accessories manufacturers scooter riders persuaded to spice up their vehicle. Good text and appropriate imaging make the article worth reading completely.Even today, the Vespa is considered a cult object. Der Spiegel last year devoted an article on two wheels to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Vespa Club Hamburg. In this report, some hard-core scooter riders have their say, were present at the anniversary meeting of the club. Among other things, will debate whether a real scooter rider with the Vespa on his way to Italy, or at least make the car as a preferred means of locomotion. An interesting question to which problems can arise; read in the mirror archive.Not only print media regularly report on the Vespa, the radio can also talks repeatedly about the cult scooter. Last occasion of the birthday on the 23rd Vespa April - the WDR-radio show dedicated to the scooter ZeitZeichen a program that is available as a podcast available.Those who see an overview of all Vespa models wonder certainly why the collections often end in the mid-1980s or early 90s. The answer is that for many fans of the vehicles produced today do not have much in common with the original Vespa. The production takes place not long been in Europe, many parts are now plastic instead of metal, and the cult status has grown up more like the older fellow, whose owners they cherish with love and restoration.In the wide worldIn many models, it is not even more true for Piaggio, because the success of the Vespa brand has launched a variety of more or less similar so-called replicas or clones Vespa on the plan. The internationally known supplier of modern replicas of Vespa LML is the Indian company. It belongs to the Piaggio Group manufactures and classic Vespa scooter in designs that are available in Germany through various specialized roller shutters. With the Belladonna RV 150 LML sells a model more or less exclusively for the New Zealand market. The model is a sister product of the scooter Stella, the LML in the U.S. offers.As an import from France Italia Neco is available that looks similar to the classic Vespa design. The two models offered are Chinese-made automatic scooters. On Mod Vespa find information on another Indian manufacturer Bajaj named. Indeed, in the early 1970s, a license for the construction of Vespa scooters in the design, the current models but are still visually very similar to the shapes of the classic Vespa scooter. Russia also had his Vespa clones that were sold under the brand Vyatka.Not every Vespa rider uses his vehicle for leisurely rides through the city traffic, some of his baby also rides on a longer tour. For example, Christian and Jan 2003 are traveling on their bicycles from Hamburg to Cape Town.At the end of the reference to an interesting documentary. Who can invest a half hour period, should in any case: look at "Vespa a way of life." Giuseppe Stefanelli, Vespa enthusiast and former employees at the Piaggio factory buildings, one finds interesting, first from the beginnings of the cult scooter. Later you get an insight into the current production in Europe and Asia. Finally tells Christa Solbach, for over 20 years President of the International Vespa Clubs, from their embossed by Vespa life. The report, which took place on 2005 Original Air Date 3sat, can be found at Google video.