A new law requiring the wearing of helmets on electric scooters is causing controversy in Italy as fines were issued for the first time over the weekend. Anyone caught riding an e-scooter without a ...

When most people hear the name "Piaggio," they think of iconic Italian scooters zipping through the streets of Rome, as seen in the cult movie "Roman Holiday." But Piaggio is not just about two wheels ...

A glance at the June issue of the Journal of Consumer Culture: Italian motor scooters, black consumers, and the West Consumption and material culture are central to much of human society, write the ...

Italy has approved a plan to regulate e-scooters and toughened drunk-driving rules, a win for Giorgia Meloni’s deputy premier Matteo Salvini who backed the new measures. On Tuesday, the government ...

Italian vehicle designer Pierangelo Andreani discusses current trends in, of all things, scooter design, in an interview with Taiwan Economic News. Andreani knows what he's talking about. After all, ...

If you’ve heard of Lambretta or Vespa scooters, chances are they conjure up on-the-road scenes from vintage movies, or images of British mods of the 1960s sitting astride these cultish Italian ...

The scooter is one of the most humble ways to get around. It’s not shouty or trying to be something that it isn’t – just affordable transportation that’s stupendously easy for anyone to ride. It seems ...

In Rome, scooters are a part of the culture, as familiar as pizza and gelato. A lot of people use them in cities because the traffic is so goddamned awful. Often it’s quicker to take a Vespa than to ...

Rome woke up Thursday to its usual street scene: thousands of over-heating drivers stuck in traffic jams, an army of ruthless teenagers roaming around on their scooters regardless of traffic lights ...