US EditionVespa Turns 80: The Italian Icon of Global Freedom
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A journey through the 80 years of the Vespa, between war, reconstruction and Italian industrial myth. On April 23, 1946 Piaggio filed the patent of the model. The idea was born in 1944, during the displacement of the plants in Biella, when engineer Renzo Spolti realized the prototype "Paperino" inspired by the scooters of American Parà. Then Corradino D'Ascanio will be reworked the project, until defining its definitive form of the most famous s…
The Vespa embodied the sense of life of the 1950s and 1960s and stood for freedom and the economic miracle of the post-war era. Soon the scooter also gained cult status outside Italy.
Vespa celebrates 80 years looking to the future with a new celebratory series that reinterprets the style of origins. (ANSA)
On April 23, 1946, a very popular scooter patent was filed, and present in the collective imagination like no other.
Today it is a global icon. But Vespa's success story began far less glamorous.
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