Vespa 946 and Aprilia RSV4 on display in Moscow

Presented today at Palazzo Chigi, the Exhibititaly program is particularly broad and prestigious and will create, from 12 September to 6 January 2013, a true "Italian space" in one of the most evocative and fashionable places in the center of the Russian capital.

“The Piaggio Group is watching the Russian market with extreme attention” says Roberto Colanino, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Group. “Our range of two-wheeled vehicles is very broad in terms of both brands, models and technological contents, and can be of great interest to customers who are more attentive to large international brands, such as Vespa, Aprilia and Moto. Guzzi, and an Italian style famous throughout the world and immediately recognisable. In the field of light commercial vehicles, a sector in which the Piaggio Group is an international protagonist with production plants in Europe and Asia, our range can appeal to large segments of Russian professional users, both within fleets and individual customers. In this sector, with vehicles such as the Porter van in the zero pollution electric version, or in the bi-fuel version with very low environmental impact, the Piaggio Group has an offer of fundamental products for the light transport of goods in urban and metropolitan areas ”.

Vespa 946 it is the prototype which, unveiled for the first time at the end of 2011, anticipates the lines and technical solutions of Vespa for the coming years. Inspired by the first version of the Vespa, which saw the light in 1946, the style of the Vespa 946 draws heavily from the tradition of elegance of the most famous scooter in the world and offers highly classic lines in a very modern way, without giving anything up to the temptation of vintage, and indeed daring new aesthetic solutions and using noble materials such as aluminium. The engine represents the state of the art in technology: the single-cylinder 4-stroke, 3-valve 125 and 150cc engine that equips the Vespa 946 boasts an increase in performance with an extraordinary reduction in consumption which leads it to travel up to 55 km/litre , with a 30% reduction in polluting emissions.