Not for U.S. sale

Aprilia Atlantic gets the Vespa GTS 300’s engine (Aprilia photo)

Most of what’s rolling out at EICMA won’t be available outside Europe, but a few noteworthy items have emerged.

While the Aprilia Atlantic maxi scooter is no longer available in the U.S., word comes that it will be available in Europe with Piaggio’s 278cc QUASAR engine. That’s the one that powers the Vespa GTS 300 Super. Aprilia being part of the Piaggio Group, this should come as no surprise—more widgets = lower cost per widget. And since the engine is emissions-certified federally and in California, the Atlantic could stage a comeback fairly easily if Aprilia wanted to make that happen.

Piaggio Liberty Elle is PINK! (Piaggio photo)

I miss Crystal Waters’ scoot|pink and Girlbike blogs (and will always be grateful for the traffic the latter sent my way in this journal’s early days). I know she’d be all over Piaggio’s Liberty Elle. Yeah, it’s pink, and it even comes with a matching helmet for that fashionable girl on the go! The Liberty was called the LT when it was sold in the U.S., but it has since been dropped by Piaggio USA.

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