The Piaggio Vespa is our heritage, a universal language of Italy in the world and cannot be left standing in a garage. For this reason, the League is asking that it be included among the vehicles of national interest”.
The League wrote this in a note explaining that «after the Salva-Casa, we want to save this revolutionary icon of the 50s and 60s that represented a cross-section of Italy and Italians and which, even today, with over 20 million models sold and in circulation in the worldover 140 evolutions of the various versions and 615 Vespa clubs in the country alone with 90 thousand members, is one of our most recognized symbols”.
“We have in fact presented an Odg – the League emphasizes – to include this object among the vehicles of national interest, also providing for its exclusion from any limitations on circulation for emissions of atmospheric pollutants on urban roads where provided for by local, national and European legislation. Since the years of the Dolce Vita, what was born as a means of transport, has surpassed its original function and has become a true icon of style, freedom and beauty marketed in 83 countries on all continents.
Unforgettable – the note also recalls – is the scene with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday in 1953 riding a white Vespa that gave rise to an all-Italian story that Fellini definitively consecrated in La Dolce Vita. From then on, the Bel Paese in the eyes of the world moved on a Vespa and from Hollywood to Bollywood, passing through our films, the Vespa has “starred” in more than 1000 films. A historical, cultural, artistic expression of our country that cannot stop but that must be protected in all respects also by the European policies of the green deal”.
