> > Has anybody ever seen a Vespa car? I have some pictures of one. Two cylinders, 18 horsepower, 62 mph, made in 1960.
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> I know it did exist, but I've never seen one except in pictures on car magazines or in the site pointed by Faux Pas in his reply.
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> The manufacturer is 'Piaggio', as for the Vespa scooters.
> The design is common to many small cars produced in Italy in the Sixties: rear drive, rear, air cooled, 500cc engine, usually derived from motorbikes.
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> AP.

There was a time when cars like that made sense. I'm sure they still do in some places. Such cars would not be able to keep up with freeway traffic in this country, nor would they be safe around 40-ton trailer trucks, but I'd want one if I lived on Molokai, or St. Martin, or maybe even Key West. They probably get more miles per litre than some cars get per gallon. (For more Vespa info, see my post under My Vespa. I'm going to start and new thread, but probably not a long one.)