Modern Vespa

Radical look.

https://www.rideapart.com/news/695169/eicma-2023-italjet-dragster-559-twin/

It's so convoluted and complicated in shape and dull color finish that I can barely make out it's form in the Link's photo image of the machine, and half of it is visually lost against the background.

That's not to say it isn't a great bike, just hard (for me) to look at it and see much more than what appears to be something akin to a construction zone on two wheels.

But you have to remember that my comment is from someone who bought a Vespa based first and foremost on the machine's classic, clean, and traditional styling, and fortunately, liked it's mechanical characteristics as a secondary consideration after the fact.

Does this make me a shallow person?

Compliments on finding a very sophisticated way of saying it looks like shit

Plus there's no curry hook, so that's a deal breaker.

It looks to me like they took all the plastics off of a maxiscooter and then tried to dress up what was left with some shiny trim.

Put another way, it wasn't designed so much as it was congealed.

I think that they should have named it the Italjet 'Entropy' to give a clever nod to the bike's aesthetic journey from potential order to certain chaos...maybe spelling it with an 'i' instead of a 'y' to make it a bit more 'edgy'...if that's even possible.

I will admit, however, that for excessively complicated styling, it could give the Triumph 'Bug-Eyed Shrapnel' model a run for the money with their eye-shredding masterwork of optical buggery (fine machine that it undoubtedly is).

I believe that to be italjet's business model.

Where my funny front suspension that defines the model?

I saw that too. It's not a Dragster, and has nothing to do with Italjet. Italjet went out of business.

What part of this machine makes it a scooter out of interest?

Not step through
No running boards
Chain driven
Foot operated six-speed transmission
Big (ish) wheels

It just looks like something both bikers and scooterists can hate on

Maybe if my name was Kevin Flynn..

This describes many maxi-scooters, with the notable exception of the manual transmission.

It's more step-through than not step through, at least.

It's a hop through.

I look at most things nowadays through arthritic hip tinted glasses

Fair enough.

Edited previous post to add lack of running boards

I like it a lot.

nope

No thanks. That thing couldn't run well enough, nor fast enough, for me to consider. I'm fine where I am.

Did you catch the 58hp on a striped down scoot?

Edit-Also the top notch brakes and bells and whistles? As a scooter guy you should be cheering something like this.

did you catch the $13,000 to $16,000 expected retail? and 400lb is hardly "stripped down"

also, manual transmission. which if I'm shifting gears it's gonna be: 2T, 100+hp or only have 4 gears and chrome shifter with a white knob attached.

Did you catch that somebody beat it with the ugly stick?

the kind of face only a mother could love; and then only on payday.

For me, it would be stumble through.

I like ugly fat girls.

Well, that's just like your opinion, man.