Vespa 946 Emporio Armani Review

Used Buyer Review

Let's be brutally honest here — you're not buying a motorcycle, you're buying a museum piece with an engine. The 946 Armani edition is essentially a standard 946 with bespoke grey-and-gold livery, Armani branding, and enough cachet to make your accountant weep. Mechanically it's the same 125cc single-cylinder unit, which means 11 horsepower and a top speed that'll get embarrassed by a determined cyclist on a hill. The three-valve engine is smooth and genuinely charming in traffic, but don't kid yourself about actual performance. Used examples sit between $8,000-$12,000 depending on mileage and condition, which is absolutely mental for a 125. Check service history obsessively — these attract owners who treat them as investments, so some have covered barely 500 miles and sat unused, which creates its own problems. Seals dry out, carbs gum up, fuel goes stale. Demand proof it's been properly maintained and ridden, not coddled. The bodywork repairs are horrifyingly expensive if someone's scraped it.