Where are Piaggio scooters from?
Nearly all new Piaggio, Gilera and Vespa models are made in Pontedera, Italy, around 30 miles from the Leaning tower of Pisa. The Piaggio family made Aircraft and Locomotives until the Second World War when a lot of Italy had been destroyed by bombing, leaving a whole nation without any effective transport. Enrico Piaggio enlisted the design skills of Corradino D’Asconia, a gifted young aeronautical engineer, to create a simple yet effective way of mobilising the Italian population and the resulting ‘Vespa’ (Wasp) took to the streets in 1946 to much public acclaim. Only a few hundred units were sold in that first year, but many thousands followed afterwards, and now over five million Vespas have been produced! The rest is history…. Nowadays, Piaggio (Including Vespa and Gilera) are Europes largest manufacturer of two and three wheeled vehicles, with a large portfolio of exciting. and in many cases unique machines. Nearly every innovative feature fitted to modern Scooters has been as
