Originally Posted by xc68anc
;-) Vespa, Ape, Moto Guzzi and Piaggio.

A lot of years back Piaggio produces Vespas, Apes and so on. In the paperwork they named Vespa, Ape. I‘ve got a 1977 Vespa Sprint VELOCE. In this time the main company was Piaggio, as from the beginning on. But it was named.

In the 1980ies it changed, you‘ve got a Piaggio.

In the early 2000 Piaggio bought Moto Guzzi. This year I bought a new MotoGuzzi V7. A GUZZI? No, in all paperwork, COC and so on it‘s a Piaggio. Only the stickers tells me „MotoGuzzi“ and the dealership signed as MotoGuzzi dealership. No Vespas around.

Greets René
Sadly Moto Guzzi no longer exists as a company. It was absorbed into the Piaggio Group and became a "brand". Whilst final assembly is still in Mandello most of the older parts of the factory have been demolished. In theory there are plans for new construction but we have heard that many times in the past. We have been told that the new "off-road" version of the V100 Mandello may not even be assembled in Mandello.

It is a rather sad turning point for the oldest motorcycle factory in the world that is still in the same place that it was founded frown

Peter

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