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Old Vespa TV Advertisements

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

I found some funny vintage Vespa ads on the Vespa Club Roma website. My favorite is the 1962 ad for the GS 160 with the Italian guy going “vespa, vespa, vespa, vespa.” Unfortunately these ads are in windows media format, blech.

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Alarm for Vespa GT and GTS

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Vespa has just released an alarm system to protect your precious, new, expensive GT or GTS. It can plug right into the wiring loom so there is no mess with cutting wires to get the thing working. It comes with a key fob to control the alarm, and a elec…

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High Rollers Rally Photos

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Here are some photos from the High Rollers Rally in Vegas. The Hoover Dam ride was awesome, despite the wind and cold. A few of my favorites are posted below…and the little kids on the vespa, it really drove! It was electric.

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Puzzling evidence of an Art Vespa

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Competition was strong but there had to be one: Vespa SA congratulates Brad Schmidt of Gendel Advertising, who will be driving away on his new Vespa LX, which he won for his cutting-edge design in the Art Vespa 2005 competition….

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In Other News

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Following on Paolo Timoni’s letter in the New York Times yesterday, today’s New York Daily News reported a pothole being filled four days, 1 hour and 35 minutes after someone from the News anonymously reported it to New York City’s…

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An Open Letter

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

My Gmail decided to put the Vespa eNews letter in the spam box, so I am a bit late to jump on this story…but the Piaggio America CEO Paolo Timoni has written an open letter to U.S. mayors concerning energy consumption and americas oil addiction….

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Vespa Places Full Page Open Letter to U.S. Mayors Ad in NY Times

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Owning a scooter is a political statement. It is not politics in the way that Republicans or Democrats define them. You are neither hippie nor elitist because you drive a scooter. No, the new breed of scooterist is a true…

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An open letter from Paolo Timoni, President and CEO of Piaggio Group Americas

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Piaggio has a full-page ad in today’s New York Times. It’s a letter from Paolo Timoni, President and CEO of Piaggio Group Americas - send it on to your mayor! February 21, 2006 Open letter to all U.S. mayors concerned…

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An open letter from Paolo Timoni, President and CEO of Piaggio Group Americas

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Piaggio has a full-page ad in today’s New York Times. It’s a letter from Paolo Timoni, President and CEO of Piaggio Group Americas - send it on to your mayor! February 21, 2006 Open letter to all U.S. mayors concerned…

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Baton Rouge is becoming a scooter town

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

A feature in The Advocate this morning in Baton Rouge:Students at LSU might spot a flash of purple (or, plum, really) on their way to morning classes. That would be Patricia O’Neill, zipping along on the new Vespa the opera…

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