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VW just confirmed that a purchase of Ducati has been finalized by Audi.
http://jalopnik.com/5903083/why-audi-just-bought-ducati
http://jalopnik.com/5903083/why-audi-just-bought-ducati
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Can't wait to see the Ducatti Quattro
Considerable weight gain and complexity for little gain.I don't see why more manufacturers don't do 2 wheel drive bikes, there are a few out there.
Don't you mean Dos?!
I don't see why more manufacturers don't do 2 wheel drive bikes, there are a few out there.
Jeez VW bought everything! Let's see VW, Audi,Lamborghini,Bugatti,ducati, I know they have ties with Volvo and there's 2 smaller manufactures in the UK they own as well. I'm sure I missing one. Wasn't the v8 in the first Audi r8 a Volvo motor
Please change the title to the correct spelling, Ducati. Otherwise you look an idiot.
Was I right about the r8 having a Volvo motor?
Please discard your thinly-veiled insults. He didn't spell it with three z's, an f, or with an underscore.
How is that an insult? If you misspell a fairly common name in a public forum, you look like an idiot. I didn't say he was, I just said he looked like one. Or do you encourage these kinds of things?
Obviously I discourage your holier-than-thou attitude over someone who misspelled a proper noun by a single letter. We discourage intentional misspellings of common words.
Perhaps we can find one tiny error in your 1700 posts, and call you names. But that's not GTPlanet.
Lamborghinis, in my opinion, are perfectly placed these days.VW is grabbing up every high class company it can get its hands on it seems, I was disappointed when Audi basically turned Lamborghini into an Italian Audi but at least they brought them way up in sales in the last 10 years. I've never seen 1 Ducati on the road in my life thus far maybe they look to change this.
Tellingly, Audi also points to certain technologies developed by Ducati – particularly their control systems, combustion chamber process and competence in lightweight construction – as particular assets that "offer great potential for AUDI AG and the Volkswagen Group."
Considerable weight gain and complexity for little gain.
Exactly, it probably has use in extreme adventuring, but even then the trade off is considerable increased complexity and aren't motorbikes just great because there's so much less to go worry about in the first place!I recall one manufacturer experimenting with two-wheel drive in the Dakar some years ago... back when it was still run from Paris to Dakar... and the bikes were visibly more stable in deep sand. Don't think the system has any other use, though... And it won't be particularly useful on a road bike.