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The Vespa GTV review, done in the driest British humor since Monty Python
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The most miserable man on two wheels.
Leather seats, deep metallic paint, and purring 125 and 250 four-stroke engines push this bike into the highest echelons of scooter luxury. Those of us who love scooters swoon over the GTV like 11-year-old-girls swoon over Tiger Beat centerfolds of Zac Efron.
But what about the kinds of folks who- dare we say- loathe two wheeled modes of transport? What would they have to say about this slick little tiramisu-like bit of Italian decadence?
Well, they would say this. Jeremy Clarkson, co-presenter of the hit BBC car show Top Gear, is also a notorious hater of the motorbike. And in this review, he tears the GTV a new one with biting British wit.
And while Jeremy's paranoia of a scooter-related fatality is done in humor drier than James Bond's martini, he does hit on some of the truths of Italian scooters and urban scootering. The cold wind in your face, the acquired taste of driving with an engine mounted on one side, and the heft of a steel motorscooter are all part of scoot life, and if you aren't a fan, you aren't a fan.
