Ducati

Provenance is one of those difficult-to-define qualities that can dramatically increase the value of an object. This limited edition "scooter" has it in massive abundance, drawing from almost every aspect of Italian motorcycle culture, innovation and history.

Updated April 17, 2024: With 18 hours to go, online bidding for one of the original Ducati 750 racers that launched the brand into international consciousness in 1972 has reached $597,200 ($510,000 bid + $87,200 buyer's premium) and the reserve price (the price at which it will sell) has not yet been achieved.

Ducati has a new motorbike, and it's celebrating this fact with a series of photos and videos so flagrantly ribald and saucy they'd be pixelated out in Japan. I mean, look at them. In fact, forget the bike, can I buy some of this guy's talent?

It's been a decade now since Ducati torched the rulebook and unleashed the iconoclastic Diavel on an unsuspecting market. Now the company has snipped the final thread linking the Diavel to the average cruiser, ditching its V-twin engine for a V4.

Yank Ducati's new Panigale V4 R out of its crate, replace the purely ornamental standard exhaust with a titanium Akrapovic race pipe and fill it up with a fancy "performance oil" from Shell, and you're sitting on a machine capable of 240.5 horsepower.

Ducati has expanded its best-selling Multistrada family with a new Rally model based on the luxurious V4 S and upgraded with a series of changes and new tech designed to enhance its touring character, both on and off the road.

Enhanced with Öhlins suspensions, high-end Brembo Stylema brakes, upgraded electronics, dedicated color scheme, and some other special bits and pieces, the 2023 Ducati Monster SP handles the sportier side of the iconic Monster family.

The first 2023 motorcycle to break cover in Ducati’s World Première 2023 online series is a collectible variant of the Streetfighter V4, modeled after the similarly exclusive Lamborghini Huracán STO supercar.

The Monterey car auctions will see more than a third of a billion dollars spent in three days this year, but the volume of well-heeled individuals in town ensures that among the cars are a smattering of bikes vendors hope will appeal to the hyper-monied audience.

Ducati has finally put a set of numbers around the cutting-edge electric motorcycle it's developing for the FIM MotoE World Cup from 2023 onwards. The V21L prototype and eventual racer will inform the electrification of the brand in the coming years.

It doesn't matter how special an Italian motorcycle is, there is always an even specialer edition coming. Something festooned with great, treacly dollops of specialness. Such a bike is Ducati's latest, the Panigale V4 SP2.

We first got wind of Ducati's ebike aspirations in 2018 with the EICMA debut of a pedal-assist mountain bike developed in collaboration with Thok. More ebikes have followed since, and now the company has announced its first road racer, the Futa.