THIS MAGAZINE HAS BEEN TREATED See Inside !"# "$# !#%% "&'"(#) %&*%#*(+&,%&* -$+)% WITH AN ANTIMICROBIAL PROCESS JANUARY 2021 ON THE HORIZON 21 travel trends that Olympic gold medalist Lindsey will shape the Vonn in Park SPICE year ahead City, Utah WORLD Brooklyn’s hot sauce sommelier INTRODUCING+ THE NEW AMERICAN WAY EN ESPAÑOL Ski Towns An Olympians’ guide to Park City, Sun Valley and Steamboat Springs AMERICANWAY.COM 001_AW_Cover_ESPANOL_v1a.indd 1 11/12/2020 09:31 TOP MODELS VESPA !"# FLESSIBLE This distinctly waspish early model propelled the scooter to fame in Roman Holiday, the black-and- white classic in which Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck explore the Eternal City aboard his Vespa Flessible. WOULD YOU BELIEVE? THE AMAZING RACE In 1980, two modified Vespa PX200E scooters piloted by French riders Bernard Tcherniavsky and Marc Simonot crossed the Sahara Desert—and the finish line—for the most arduous motor race in the world: the Paris-Dakar Rally. PINUP 8 BEAUTY Between 1951 and 2005, Vespa produced an This easy rider annual pinup calendar with swimsuit-clad, stiletto-heeled beauties looks good for 75 styled by Italian The iconic Vespa scooter celebrates illustrator Franco its diamond anniversary this year Mosca. “#$ %&&'( %#') * +*(,-” *#.,%*/) best-selling scooter has been a manufacturer Enrico Piaggio stylistic trendse0er—from exclaimed in 1946, noting the England’s 1960s mod culture to rounded and tapered rear end of dozens of Hollywood 1lms. The aeronautical engineer Corradino Italian icon turns 75 this year, a2er DAscanio’s design for a prototype the production of more than 160 scooter. Thus, the versatile Vespa models and 19 million units. The (Italian for “wasp”) was christened. anniversary is being marked with a Since being launched to global fame new book, Vespa: Style and Passion , in the 1953 hit comedy Roman a lavishly illustrated o3cial history. Holiday (starring Audrey Hepburn Here, we pro1le key moments in and Gregory Peck), the world’s Vespa’s history. !CHRISTOPHER P" BAKER !! " AMERICAN WAY 022-023_NTK_Vespa.indd 22 11/12/2020 19:15 NEED TO KNOW SUPER SCOOTER VESPA ELETTRICA VESPA PX!"# Silent, emission-free and featuring Introduced in 1977, the beloved PX the timeless Vespa body style, the remained virtually unchanged company’s first electric scooter through three decades. Three million (launched in 2018) offers a were sold worldwide before lithium-ion battery-powered motor emissions regulations caused its plus a state-of-the-art multimedia demise in 2008, making it the most electronics dashboard. successful model in Vespa’s history. DESIGN ODDITIES IN THE MOVIES THE CALESSINO THE MOD SQUAD The bug-like Ape Calessino The 1960s and ’70s English scooter- three-wheel mini taxi, launched in riding mod subculture, with its 1947, is still used in many countries Lambrettas and Vespas customized worldwide. It has inspired scores of with an excess of headlights and imitations and continues to be mirrors, was famously portrayed in made in India under license as the Quadrophenia, starring Sting. Bajaj auto-rickshaw. DONALD DUCK The first Vespa prototype—the MP5— !$# was originally nicknamed Paperino, or “Donald Duck,” for its ungainly look. Enrico Piaggio disliked it, but Corradino D’Ascanio’s subsequent design for the Moto Piaggio 6 ONLY THE LONELY prototype became the inspiration for ; COURTESY OF VESPA generations of Vespas. In the 2004 remake of Alfie, Jude !"# Law—playing the title character, an ill-fated Lothario with a Cockney accent—zipped around London’s East BUMBLEBEE TRIKE End on an electric blue-and-cream 1966 Vespa 150 Sprint GT. Created one year after the first Vespa scooter, the affectionately named Ape (or “bumblebee”) three-wheeler was advertised as “the world’s smallest pickup truck.” Capable of carrying a load up to 440 pounds, it was available in 20 different body styles. TOP LEFT: GETTY IMAGES; THE CALESSINO, THE MOD SQUAD AND ONLY THE LONELY PHOTOS: ALAMY AMERICAN WAY ! "# 022-023_NTK_Vespa.indd 23 11/12/2020 09:21.