Piaggio MP3

The Piaggio MP3 is a tilting three-wheeled scooter made by the Italian maker Piaggio and first marketed in 2006. The name stands for Moto Piaggio a 3 ruote, a Piaggio motorcycle with three wheels. It has two front wheels and one rear wheel, joined by an aluminium parallelogram linkage that lets the machine lean like a motorcycle. A lock on the front suspension holds it upright, so it can be stopped and parked without a stand, even on sloping ground. Early versions used existing 125 and 250 cc four-stroke engines, and a 400 cc model followed. A wider-track LT version could be ridden on a car licence in the United Kingdom. A plug-in hybrid appeared in 2009, a second generation in 2014 and a third in 2022, after about 230,000 units had been sold.