If you lived in an Italian or Spanish city or on the coast this was a superb car for appearing to be sporty. When cruising along the Amalfi coast with one arm around your girl and the other one waving to other "cool cats" you saw along the way, this was the ideal motor.
Of course, only occasionally would you use your waving hand to actually steer the car, and then only with one finger. The same finger that would be used to move your shades with the chrome, drilled earpieces down your nose to stare meaningfully at some pretty young thing on a Vespa.