Piaggio Motorcycle Specifications

BV 125 (Beverly)	2002
BV 250 (Beverly)	2006-10
BV 350 (Beverly)	2014
BV 350 (Beverly)	2015
BV 500	2005-12
Fly 50	2007
Fly 50	2008
Fly 50	2014
Fly 150	2005-13
Fly 150	2014

Liberty 125	2014
LT 50	2003-04
LT 150	2003-04
MP3 125	2006-07
MP3 125	2008-09
MP3 125LT Hybrid	2009
MP3 125	2010-11
MP3 125ie	2012
MP3 250	2006-07
MP3 250	2010-11
MP3 250	2012-13
MP3 250	2014
MP3 300LT Hybrid	2010-
MP3 300LT	2012
MP3 300 LT Yourban	2013-
MP3 300 Sport / Business ABS ASR	2016-17
MP3 350 Sport	2018-
MP3 400	2007-08
MP3 400 / ABS	2009-10
MP3 400	2011
MP3 400ie	2012
MP3 400ie Touring	2012
MP3 400	2014
MP3 500	2006-07
MP3 500	2008-09
MP3 500	2010-11
MP3 500 Sport Touring	2012
MP3 500	2013
MP3 500	2014
MP3 500	2015
MP3 500 Sport ABS	2016-17
MP3 500 Sport LT	2018-
MP3 500 HPE Business	2018
Typhoon 50	2005-08
Typhoon 50	2012-14
Typhoon 125	2014
X-EVO 125 Sport	2014
X8 125	2006-07
X8 200	2006
X8 250	2006-07
X8 400	2007
X9 500	2001
X9 Evolution 125	2005
X9 Evolution 250	2005
X9 Evolution 500	2005
X9 Evolution 500 ABS	2006
X10 125	2012
X10 350	2012
X10 500	2012
Zip 50 2T	2014

Piaggio based in Pontedera, Italy encompasses seven brands producing scooters and motorcycles. As the fourth largest producer of scooters and motorcycles in the world, Piaggio produces more than 600,000 vehicles annually, with five Research and development centers, more than 6,700 employees and operations in over 50 countries. Piaggio was founded by Rinaldo Piaggio, in Genoa, Italy, in 1884.

Founded in Genoa in 1884 by twenty-year-old Rinaldo Piaggio, Piaggio initially undertook luxury ship fitting before going on to produce rail carriages, goods vans, luxury coaches and engines, trams and special truck bodies.

World War I brought a new diversification that was to distinguish Piaggio activities for many decades. The company started producing aeroplanes and seaplanes. At the same time, new plants were springing up.

In 1917 Piaggio bought a new plant in Pisa, and four years later it took over a small plant in Pontedera which first became the centre of aeronautical production (propellers, engines and complete aircraft, including the state-of-the-art Piaggio P108 in passenger and bomber versions).

Before and during World War II, Piaggio was one of Italy's top aircraft manufacturers. For this reason, its plants were important military targets and the Piaggio factories in Genoa, Finale Ligure and Pontedera were irrevocably damaged by the war.

The 1946 Invention
Rinaldo Piaggio's sons Enrico and Armando began the process of re-starting industrial production immediately after the war. The hardest task went to Enrico, who was responsible for the destroyed Pontedera plant. He arranged for part of the machinery transferred to Biella in Piedmont to be brought back.

Enrico Piaggio opted for an industrial reconversion, focusing on personal mobility in a country emerging from war. He gave shape to his intuition, building a vehicle destined to become extremely famous, thanks to the extraordinary design work of the aeronautical engineer and inventor Corradino D'Ascanio (1891-1981).

The Birth of a Legend
The Vespa (which means "wasp" in Italian) was the result of Enrico Piaggio's determination to create a low cost product for the masses. As the war drew to a close, Enrico studied every possible solution to get production in his plants going again - starting from Biella, where a motor scooter was produced, based on a small motorcycle made for parachutists.