Moto Guzzi Celebrates Its 100-Year Anniversary In 2021
Moto Guzzi will celebrate its centennial anniversary by welcoming a commemorative paint scheme to its models.
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After 100 Years of Continuous Production, Moto Guzzi Looks Forward to the Next Century
More specifically, it was March 15, 1921 when the “Società Anonima Moto Guzzi” was established with the goal of “Manufacturing and sales of motorcycles and any other activity pertinent or connected to the metal mechanical industry”. And it was precisely in that moment, in memory of one of the founders? brothers in arms, that the eagle with spread wings was chosen as the new company?s symbol. Since then, the eagle, which quickly gained notoriety all over the world, has been Moto Guzzi?s symbol. The operational headquarters opened in Mandello del Lario ? the same plant where all Moto Guzzi are still produced to this day ? an enterprise that marked the history of global motorcycling through bikes that have become a part of the collective imagination such as the GT 500 Norge (1928) ridden to the Arctic Circle by Giuseppe Guzzi, brother of founder Carlo, the Airone 250 (1939), the Galletto (1950) which contributed to mass motorization in the postwar period.
In those years, the wind tunnel was opened ? the first in the world in the motorcycling segment, which can still be visited in the Mandello plant ? greatly desired by a close-knit team that included extraordinary engineers the likes of Umberto Todero, Enrico Cantoni and a designer who w...
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