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…

While the process of shifting gears can initially feel like rubbing your tummy while patting your head, it soon becomes second nature and adds an additional dimension of fun to the scooting experience.

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.

Chicago’s Genuine Scooter Company has more than the much-loved Stella in its line-up. Back in 2006 it also introduced the Blur 150. This year comes the improved Blur SS 220i.

Start out your 2010 riding season with a gently used daily rider from Chicago’s Genuine Scooter Company.

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.

The headline says it all. A very tidy looking white Stella up for grabs with less than 4K on the clock at a nice round $2,000. The seller is leaving the country so their loss could be your gain.

A seller in Fresh Meadows, Queens has a serviceable black 2005 Stella up for grabs with just 1130 miles on the clock. It has some electrical gremlins but sounds like it just needs either a new battery or five minutes of a trained eye.