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(neither this classically styled Ape nor her accompanying prancing nymph will be available for you to order in the USA. *sniff*)

The new, limited edition “Ape Calessino” is currently on tour in Portofino, Forte dei Marmi, Capri, Taormina and Porto Rotondo (which sounds much more romantic than their English translations of Fine Port, Fort of Marbles, Goats, Taormina [does that mean "tourist destination?] and Round Port.)

Piaggio is celebrating the return of the Ape Calessino form the 50′s and 60′s fame. Here’s how Piaggio describes it in a Googlese translation:

Bee Calessino is accredited in order to accommodate four persons: three passengers and the guide who is received from one comfortable selleria in color cream with rifiniture in blue. The four doors are realized in stainless steel chassis polished and covered in impermeable and washable burlap. The same material of which the capote is made up to modulate that it renders Bee flexible Calessino to every employment, in order riscoprire the taste of being with to the open air.

If you wanted one of the available 999, be prepared to spend about $12,000 for the APE and whatever crating and freighting costs… maybe $15k total? THEN the hassle of getting her road legal. Maybe it just time to move to Italy?

Click on the title link to see the whole story and some more photos from motoblog.it