Speculation that Ducati would soon be making a maxi scooter and a scrambler have been growing over the last year or so and just last week Ducati’s Claudio Domenicali in an interview with Motosprint.
com, confirmed that the Italian company was seriously thinking about it, but now Ducati’s head honcho Gabriele Del Torchio has nixed it.
Speaking to our Italian cousins at Motoblog.
it during the Moto Passion bike show, Del Torchio stated that the company “has a well defined range and now we are concentrating on our next project for the sports market and on Superbikes, we’re not thinking of new models.
That’s our industrial production plan for the next 3 to 5 years, and we have no maxi scooter in mind, and certainly not a scrambler.
“Do we actually believe Del Torchio? Nope.
Ducati isn’t dishing out a few millions of euros to build plants in Thailand and Brazil just to get around import taxes and and concentrate on selling 20,000 more sportbikes or the Diavel in expanding markets.
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