The faithful Vespa would without doubt win a contest for the most quintessentially Italian motor vehicle.
The modified Piaggio Vespa has a built-in coffee machine like those in any coffee shop.
Our 14-year-old daughter wants a Vespa (or, worse, a cute boy who rides one).
Back on the Vespa, we crossed a highway and entered the Bois de Vincennes, a sprawling park.
And our 8-year-old son, to judge by his behavior, aspires to be run over by a Vespa.
But Italy's Piaggio has relaunched its relatively expensive Vespa in Jakarta, after being squeezed out in the 1980s.
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One afternoon in early March, the shoe designer Christian Louboutin decided to go for a ride on his Vespa.
Unlike mopeds and scooters (like a Vespa, for example), electric bikes don't require a license or insurance in most states.
Riding to work on her clunky Vespa, she heard the roar of a motorcycle that pulled alongside her at a stoplight.
That may explain why diehard Vespa fans meet every Sunday in Manhattan for brunch and a ride on their funky Italian scooters.
Take the Top Gear theme further and team up with some friends to ride a Minsk, a Vespa and a Honda Cub.
The Italian pavilion, for example, will allow visitors to take simulated tours of Italy's wine country while sitting on a Vespa motorcycle.
Here in the 21st century, Moto Guzzi wants very much to be a part of the Italian fine-goods nexus along with the mass-class brands Aprilia and Vespa.
Talk about offhand chic: On my last trip there, I saw a distinguished guy with a quilted jacket over his suit tooling around town on a Vespa scooter.
Along the way, the Vespa-like scooter tour will stop at iconic Egyptian destinations like the pyramids at Giza, the Karnak temples and the Valley of the Kings near Luxor.
Once we arrived at the world of Universal, I discovered that the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel looked strikingly like Portofino, Italy, with its Necco-wafer-colored Italian-ish buildings jammed together in front of a piazza with hollowed out Vespa scooters bolted to the ground.
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