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	Vespa Piaggio Scooter History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Piaggio, with his background in transportation, saw the need of the people and a way to get his factories humming again with a product that would be relatively easy to produce and allowed under terms of the peace agreement.
		Piaggio wanted to build a new kind of scooter that would be inexpensive, economical, light-weigh and maneuverable, and able to be ridden comfortably by women as well as men.
		As Piaggio looked at the scooter's narrow waist and wide, rounded rear aspect, and heard the buzzing of the little 98-cc engine, he remarked, “Semba una vespa,” which in Italian meant, “It seems like a wasp.” Of course, “Vespa” is the name that stuck, and remains still, all around the globe.
	www.indoscooter.com /vespascooterhistory.html (1464 words)

	rediff.com: Piaggio to set up 2-wheeler plant in India: BS
		Piaggio India is understood to be finalising plans for the greenfield unit and is also in the process of appointing vendors and dealers for the venture.
		Piaggio India is the company's second serious attempt to make a re-entry, and follows the recent abortive attempt to acquire the government's stake in Scooters India.
		Piaggio exited India in November 1999 after selling its 23.6 per cent equity in LML for Rs 135 million, after a bitter protracted battle in the courts with the Singhanias.
	www.rediff.com /money/2001/sep/03piagio.htm (414 words)

	Piaggio not to make 2-wheelers in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Piaggio and C. S.p.A, the Italian two- and three-wheeler major, has dropped plans to manufacture two-wheelers in India, and will focus on manufacturing only three- and four-wheelers here, Piaggio chief executive officer Rocco Sabelli said on Friday.
		Piaggio's market research in recent times has shown that it may not be feasible at this point in time to invest in a manufacturing facility since it will be extremely difficult to take on these players.
		Piaggio is gearing up for the launch of a four-wheeled light transport vehicle, based on the three-wheeler platform, in 2004-05.
	www.rediff.com /money/2003/nov/29piaggio.htm (591 words)

	Piaggio v2r - home
		Piaggio, the UK’s scooter market leader, is proud to announce the launch of the officially licensed England scooter, inspired by the design of the new England team strip as the national side bids for glory in the 2006 World Cup Qualifiers.
		Modern, functional and elegantly designed, Piaggio’s new Fly is the latest offering for total city freedom and the perfect solution for skirting queues of traffic to ensure you get from A to B on time.
		Piaggio, the UK’s scooter market leader, is set to take the 50cc sports scooter sector by storm with the all-new Piaggio NRG Power.
	www.uk.piaggio.com (237 words)

	Piaggio
		Piaggio was established in September 1882 in Sestri Ponete, Genoa (Italy) by Enrico Piaggio as a timber stockyard with his son Rinaldo.
		Piaggio in which he intended to develop an activity in ship outfitting, this however changed in the early 1900's when Rinaldo went into railway coach construction.
		Around 1916, Piaggio found an interest in aeronautics and built aircraft engines, this however was abandoned after the war and interest turned to personal transport to satisfy a demand for private vehicles.
	www.3wheelers.com /piaggio.html (420 words)

	Piaggio Aero Industries - Piaggio Aero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		A wide range of Piaggio aircraft, from single seat trainers to four engine bombers were developed and built at Piaggio's Finale Ligure plant until the Sestri Plant was moved from its original site to the actual one in 1974.
		The Piaggio aircraft types currently in production are the Piaggio P166 reconnaissance Aircraft currently in production for the Italian government which ws first developed in the late 1940's and the Piaggio P180 Executive Aircraft which first flew in 1986.
		In November Piaggio purchased the assets of the old business from the Administrative Receivership and re- launched the company in it's present form, Piaggio Aero Industries spa Piero Ferrari, son of Enzo, became the new Chairman of Piaggio Aero Industries.
	www.artdisk.it /proposta_piaggio/htm/piaggioaero.htm (1087 words)

	Piaggio USA
		Piaggio USA, Inc. is a subsidiary of Piaggio and C. S.p.A., based in Tuscany, Italy.
		Piaggio's stylish and fuel-efficient line of motor scooters is the epitome of practical indulgence.
		Piaggio USA is an active member of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF) and encourages riders to always wear a helmet, appropriate eyewear and proper apparel.
	www.piaggiousa.com /company/news.cfm?NID=156 (693 words)

	PIAGGIO Engines - About Us
		With over 110 years of industrial activity, Piaggio has worked in the fields of naval engineering, public transportation and aeronautical engineering, before it turned its business focus to individual transportation, specifically to 2-, 3- and 4-wheel vehicles.
		In fact, the worldwide success of Vespa as well as all the other Piaggio products has been built on a profound culture of engine designing, testing and manufacturing, which has developed at Piaggio through generations of technicians and engineers.
		Today, the Engine Division of Piaggio utilizes the most advanced development equipment and production technology for developing and manufacturing engines for scooters, motorbikes, mopeds, and agile vehicles for the delivery of goods.
	www.engines.piaggio.com /_vti_g2_AbUs1.asp (333 words)

	Dealernews: Together … at last: new Piaggio/Aprilia entity could generate 600,000 vehicles per year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Piaggio also is offering to defer payment for engines it previously supplied to Aprilia.
		Piaggio may have the size and the resources to pull Aprilia out of debt and make it profitable.
		Piaggio also has "insurance" to face a cash crunch from Aprilia's debt, as it can unload Aprilia's Moto Guzzi line to Ducati or Bombardier for quick profit.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3323/is_9_40/ai_n8695465 (574 words)

	NBAA 2004: Piaggio joins upgrade parade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		According to Piaggio America president and CEO Tom Appleton, the first Avanti II is scheduled for delivery late next year at a price of $5.97 million.
		Piaggio Aero has also reached an agreement with Messier-Dowty that allows the European landing gear specialist to assume total support for the Avanti landing gear.
		Piaggio America recently moved its headquarters facility from Greenville, S.C., to West Palm Beach, Fla., where it leases space adjacent to Jet Aviation at the international airport.
	www.ainonline.com /Publications/nbaa/NBAA_04/d1piaggiop1.html (1373 words)

	Dealernews: Piaggio's power play props up Aprilia, Moto Guzzi: new ownership revs up confidence in Italian OEMs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		One benefit of the Piaggio buyout is the introduction of new models that were delayed during the financial crisis.
		He was made optimistic by the fact that Piaggio representatives met with Aprilia and Guzzi dealers at Dealer Expo to reaffirm their commitment to the U.S. market.
		Piaggio's new strong commitment to the U.S. market, he suggests, reflects the understanding that it is in the United States that the company has the best opportunity for long-term growth.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3323/is_5_41/ai_n15729486 (1060 words)

	Piaggio Aero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The company is one of the world's oldest airplane manufacturers, and its planes have been well known from early days of aviation history.
		There is also two subsidaries: Piaggio Aero France (Cannes France and Piaggio America (West Palm Beach, Florida).
		This article about an aeronautical corporation or company is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piaggio_Aero (140 words)

	Piaggio Vespa Scooters - for your modern personal transportation needs!
		Piaggio was founded in Genoa, Italy in 1884 by twenty-year-old Rinaldo Piaggio.
		In 1917 Piaggio bought a new plant in Pisa, and four years later it took over a small plant in Pontedera in the Tuscany region of Italy.
		Enrico Piaggio was at the helm, having taken over from his father Rinaldo.
	www.vespausa.com /company/history.cfm (613 words)

	AIN Online December 2003: Piaggio considers a business jet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		With chief pilot Arthur St. Clair and Piaggio America president and CEO Tom Appleton at the controls as pilot and copilot, respectively, the Avanti made the 854-nm flight from Chicago Midway Airport to Orlando Executive Airport in 2 hr 18 min 12 sec, averaging 327 knots.
		But that was also the year Piaggio was rescued by a consortium that included Piero Ferrari, son of Enzo Ferrari of race car fame.
		Piaggio Aero recently received a financial boost from a $22.4 million investment by the Italian state investment agency Sviluppo Italia.
	www.ainonline.com /issues/12_03/12_03_piaggiop26.html (801 words)

	Owen's Vespa Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		During the war, the Piaggio factory was forced to mass produce warplanes for the Axis war effort.
		Piaggio envisioned a scooter that was sleak, stylish, fast, and easily operated by anyone.
		Piaggio even described it as "horrible looking." It was ridiculed by press and public alike.
	www.uwm.edu /People/oms (805 words)

	Piaggio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Piaggio and Company, S.A. is still a major manufacturer based in Genoa, Italy.
		Giovanni Pegna was an aircraft designer for Piaggio for many years and is especially noted for the development of a Schneider Cup racer in 1929 - the remarkable hydroski-equipped P.c.7 (see JT).
		Piaggio built Lycoming O-435, GO-435, VO-435, GO-480, and GSO-480 engines under license in the 1950s and 1960s, see Lycoming and W56 to W59-60.
	users.adelphia.net /~aeroengine/Piaggio.html (137 words)

	PIAGGIO Group - News: articolo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Piaggio and C., S.p.A. announces that today there took place the signing of the final contract with Aprilia S.p.A. and its shareholders (Ivano Beggio and his family, Holdipar s.r.l., European Moto Holding s.a.r.l., and Scarabeo s.s.), on the basis of which Piaggio and C. S.p.A. acquires 100% of the Aprilia Group.
		· the underwriting by Piaggio and C. of the whole Aprilia share capital increase for € 50 million, as previously voted on by the Company's Shareholders' meeting by means of a total make good of the losses, standing at approximately € 108 million at 31 October 2004 and the writing off of the share capital;
		It is a business transaction undertaken in full cooperation with the Italian banking system and which strengthens the Piaggio Group and projects its potential on a global scale".
	www.piaggiogroup.com /_vti_g2_nwArt.asp?rfrsh=189674&idnews=55 (554 words)

	Aprilia motorcycle company to be acquired by Piaggio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Piaggio, Italy's largest maker of powered two-wheelers, has agreed to acquire ailing Aprilia, the country's second-largest motorcycle builder.
		The proposal of intervention of the Piaggio Group is oriented towards the increase of the value of the Aprilia Group from an industrial and strategic point of view.
		Furthermore, it guarantees the suppliers' integral payment, the satisfaction of the bearers of obligations still less the integral repayment of the new finance supplied last May, together with a supply contract with an important and positive financial effect on the management of the Group.
	www.motorcyclistonline.com /newsandupdates/piaggiobuysaprilia (714 words)

	PIAGGIO Group - Piaggio Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		The Piaggio Museum is located in one of the company's oldest buildings in Pontedera, a harmonic example of revamping industrial space.
		Opened in 2000, the Museum is part of a large project to reconstruct Piaggio's history, something strongly desired in the early 1990s by the then young president Giovanni Alberto Agnelli with the objective of preserving and emphasising the value of an extraordinary historical memory.
		Inside the Museum, you can find Piaggio Historical Archive, which brings together company documents from its origins to today, a rich collection of photographs, advertising campaigns and films that make it one of the richest company archives in the world.
	www.piaggiogroup.com /_vti_g2_68.asp?lng=2&ipag=68 (229 words)

	Scooter Weekly - Articles - Piaggio
		Piaggio's X9 model is soon to be avialable with 125 and 460cc engine sizes.
		Piaggio is the biggest manufacturer of two wheel transport in the world, as well as Piaggio brand names, Piaggio also sell scooters under the well known makes of Vespa and Gilera.
		The Liberty scooter is Piaggio's big wheeled scooter that so many manufacturers are producing, starting life in 50cc engine sizes, also available (in Italy, Switzerland and Austria) is a Catalysed version which meets Euro 1 standards.
	www.scooterweekly.f9.co.uk /piaggio.html (493 words)

	Piaggio Gives China Another Spin - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Troubled Piaggio aims to crank out 300,000 scooters per year within three years--some two-thirds as much as its global shipments last year.
		Piaggio in turn will license advanced technology to a Zongshen Group-owned motorcycle engine company that will sell engines to the joint venture.
		In a ceremony in Chongqing, the hub of China's motorcycle industry, Piaggio executives said they are exploring the possibility of working with Piaggio to enter the China market for four-wheel vehicles--inexpensive cars in particular.
	www.forbes.com /business/manufacturing/2004/04/16/cz_rf_0416piaggio.html (1035 words)

	Piaggio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Piaggio is the world's original manufacturer of scooters (Vespa) and 3-wheelers based in Italy and continues to be the technology leader in this segment with presence in countries across the globe.
		The range being introduced by us is manufactured at the state of the art manufacturing plant of Piaggio Vehicles Private Ltd. in India.
		The Piaggio Apé 3-wheelers come with a Lombardini designed enviroment friendly 4 stroke 395cc diesel engine giving 36 km per litre of diesel.
	www.piaggio.co.za (256 words)

	2003 Piaggio BV200 Scoot
		Piaggio has only imported about 2000 of these in '03, so you dont see them everyday on the road.
		The engine in the BV200 is Piaggio's Leader 200cc that also powers the Vespa GT200, and Aprilia Scarabeo 200.
		The Leader family of engines is a modern line of 4-strokes made in Pontedera Italy and ranges in size from 125cc to 250cc.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /bv200 (687 words)

	Cycle News Online
		Piaggio S.p.A., the maker of Vespa scooters, has agreed to complete the purchase of Aprilia, according to a posting on Piaggio’s website.
		Piaggio currently owns Derbi, Vespa, and Gilera, and markets scooters and motorcycles in those brand names and their own.
		At a Piaggio board meeting on December 17, the company said they expected to complete the purchase by the end of the year.
	www.cyclenews.com /ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID=6982 (276 words)

	PM.Zone Test: Piaggio X9 Evolution 500 Maxi Scooter
		We risk life and limb to test the limits and convenience of Piaggio's new X9 Evolution 500 maxi scooter.
		When Enrico Piaggio let the world's first Vespa scooters loose on the winding roads of postwar Italy, convenience (which, by the way, does not translate directly to Italian) meant a 2-wheel machine that wouldn't get the rider's clothes dirty, could carry a passenger and was simple and unintimidating to ride.
		Piaggio's new X9 Evolution 500 is a true maxi scooter.
	www.popularmechanics.com /outdoors/outdoors/1278191.html (397 words)

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