Red Champion

The industrialist and inventor, Henry Ford, is famously quoted as saying on the subject of his best-selling Model T Ford: “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it’s black.”

There is a possibility that the Piaggio Company might well have paraphrased this comment with reference to the Vespa GS160 as in: “Any customer can have a GS160 painted any colour as long as it’s white.” But in Italian, of course (to be strictly accurate) the beautiful newly minted GS was adorned in the