The announcement of a Diesel Ducati might catch you by surprise, but only until you realize that the bike has spark plugs and the word Diesel refers to the Italian fashion brand which has been sponsoring the Ducati Team in MotoGP. The collaboration is bearing fruit straight up with an "urban military chic" version of the Ducati Monster 1100EVO.
The US$13,795 Monster Diesel gets a "Brave Green" matt color treatment with yellow front brake calipers, while just about everything else on the machine including the pipes is finished in "totalblack."
The passenger seat cover, exhaust system heat shields and dashboard cover are also new along with a personalized metal plate fixed on the passenger seat cover, but all of the key technical specs remain in-line with the standard Monster 1100EVO.
Both the bike and its accompanying apparel collection were launched on 15 March at the Diesel Store of New York at Soho.
Source: Ducati
Then your in the mince meat of the after market scam mark ups.
i was all ready to be cheer for a mass produced diesel bike.
No reason why not to have performance stratified direct injection, compression ignition engines, after we have seen them win multiple LeMans Races. (though running on fully synthetic engineered fuel).