Her ya go Sibbo...

[dougie]

You like Ducati Monsters.
You like diesels.
http://www.cyclecanadaweb.com/articles/15542/

[Sibbo]

Diesel ?...as in compression ignition or Diesel as in a clothing brand ?

[dougie]

Diesel ?...as in compression ignition or Diesel as in a clothing brand ?

Clothing.

[Sibbo]

A new low for Ducati ....

[Deleted User 287]

Look at what Jeep did for Wrangler clothing.

[Zombie Master]

A new low for Ducati ....

+1 How lame can they get?

[dougie]

A new low for Ducati ....

Yup.
I think "tacky" is the word.

[Duane Ausherman]

Scheduled for sale in July? It will be late a month or two. They really will sell a lot of them this season. Some dealer should whisper in their ear about the season for sales.

Ducati must be government subsidized, or they wouldn't still be in business.

[Sibbo]

Scheduled for sale in July? It will be late a month or two. They really will sell a lot of them this season. Some dealer should whisper in their ear about the season for sales.

Ducati must be government subsidized, or they wouldn't still be in business.

It's subsidised but by venture capitalists it seems .http://twistingasphalt.com/index.php/20 ... nds-again/

Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. is to be absorbed by Performance Motorcycles S.p.A., an investment vehicle formed in April by three of the OEM’s main shareholders.

Ducati leadership says a draft of the merger plan will be drawn up and subsequently approved by the board of directors in September. The merger will cause the delisting of Ducati by the end of the year, the OEM said in a prepared statement.

In March, Ducati shareholders Investindustrial, BS Investimenti and Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan (HOPP) announced they intended to launch a €390.8 million ($579 million) bid to purchase the 70 percent of the motorcycle manufacturer they didn’t already own. They planned to fund about 50 percent of the bid, with the remainder financed by bank Intesa Sanpaolo SpA. At the time, Private equity firm Investindustrial owned 15.6 percent of Ducati Motor Holding, SpA; Canadian pension fund HOPP owned 7.4 percent; and BS Investimenti held about 7 percent.