The Vespa returns to India at a time when sales of scooters are on the rise
A statue of the Hindu god Ganesh is being transported on the back of a scooter in India's New Delhi in 2005. Italy's iconic Vespa scooter, a rage with the Indian middle-class in its heyday, re-entered the country on Thursday after a 13-year hiatus as scooters come back in vogue.