It’s official, Vespa can now officially collect on its 401K as it turns 65 years old today. We wish happy birthday to our favorite scooter marque.

While many Stella fans have been waiting for the four-stroke incarnation to arrive at their local dealer, one lucky rider has been riding for 3,000 miles and has a thoughtful balanced review to share.

Are those enough acronyms for you? Famed German scooter shop and custom specialist SIP Scootershop are lucky bastards in current attendance at Italy’s EICMA scooter and motorcycle show currently pleasing crowds in Milan through November 7th.

Is it a Vespa or isn’t it? We’ve talked quite a bit about the Genuine Scooter Company’s Stella but we haven’t fully covered its origin and its versatility as a practical everyday scoot for New York City, until now…

JustGottaScoot’s David Harrington recently got Genuine’s founder Philip McCaleb on the phone to answer some questions about their upcoming releases. Click through to listen in.

India’s LML Star is a scooter by many names. Here in the US it’s re-badged by Chicago’s Genuine Scooter Company as the Stella. In Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, it’s the Belladonna RV150. Click through to get the down-under take on this classic design.

The big news from the floor of the Indianapolis Dealer Expo is that the upcoming 4-stroke version of Genuine Scooter Company’s popular Stella will remain at $3,599. That’s the same as the 2-stroke 2009 version.

The lucky Scottish scooterists over at Vivo Scooterists in Edinburgh recently got to try out the LML Star 4, the European incarnation of the Indian Vespa Clone, soon to be re-badged here in the USA as the 4-stroke Stella by Chicago’s Genuine Scooter Company.

2 Stroke Buzz has unearthed photos of the LML Star 4-stroke being distributed in readiness for Milan’s upcoming scooter and motorcycle show.

Just gotten your hands on your first two-stroke manual scooter? Congratulations. Need to know what all those shiny (rusty?) bits do? Thanks to Bob Hedstrom at Scooterville, Minnesota we have answers.