Modern Vespa

I just bought a new GTS 300 Super in black, but my insurance company says that based on the VIN, its a 250. Can someone help me confirm?

ZAPM459L6A5700947

I want to make sure it is EXACTLY what I paid for.

Thanks

Jesse

You should have an emission label (mine is inside my glove box on the left) and it tells the exact engine displacement.

I haven't taken receipt of it yet. I'm still in the process of purchasing it. I gave a deposit today so I could get the insurance and paperwork done.

I don't know what this means, but according to the information in the MV wiki it is a 250:

https://modernvespa.com/forum/wiki-vin-decoding

There were some 250 gts supers that were labeled as 300 supers.
This post talks about it :

What happens to those Super 300 badges

A search will tell you if the misbadged supers had analog or digital speedometers. I'm not sure if there are other differences as well.

good luck

This thread talks about somebody who got a GTS labelled as a 300 but it turned out to be a 250 :

White GTS 250 looks like a 300

Again, this doesn't mean that yours is a 250, but it's probably a good idea to find out what the VIN prefix for a US spec 300 is.

Perhaps somebody with a 300 who can check will be along shortly....

It is a 300 and a 2010. If it was the rarer 250 Super the 10th vin digit would be a (9) and not an (A) because all of the 250 Supers were 2009 models. The (A) stipulates the bike is a 2010.


The 2010 300 Super and 2009 250 Super look identical except for the digital dash on the 250.

All this 250/300 talk reminds me o a conversation I had with the dealer. I was shopping for a scoot and they had just gotten the 300 in stock but they knew it was a 250. He basically said it was a marketing thing while they got the 300's California CARB Emissions tests certified. i don't know if it's the truth or I heard it correctly...but it is still an interesting comment.

I wonder if the majority of the mis-badges ended up in California as it is the strictest emissions state in the union?

Its 100% a GTS300...

Thank you SOOO MUCH for the help. I also wanted to confirm that the dash was the analog, so it is indeed a 300. Whew! Thanks again.

just confirm engine displacement