P90
Interview
MV AGUSTA CEO TIMUR SARDAROV PART 2
Yes, we have our new four-
cylinder engine that we introduced
in the 1000 Brutale Serie d'Oro at
the EICMA Show in November.
This is almost a new engine apart
from the crankcases—it's fascinat-
ing what our technical department
did to it. The new Brutale 1000
is in a category of its own, as a
hyper-naked bike with over 200
horsepower—208bhp to be exact,
in Euro 4 compliant form, in a
375-pound platform and capable
of 190 mph! It's going to be a really
cool motorcycle, which is some-
thing else in terms of technology,
in terms of rideability, in terms of
its presence. It's quite an amazing
product and the fact that it was
elected the most beautiful bike of
the 2018 EICMA Show shows the
public recognize that, too.
Will you make an F4 Super-
bike version, using an even
higher performance version
of this new motor?
The new four-cylinder engine
will be utilized to begin with only
for the Brutale 1000, because
we're ending production of the
existing F4 early in 2019, with
the final edition which will be
a tribute to the late Claudio
Castiglioni, Gio's father. We'll
probably make only 64 such
bikes, which was his age
when he passed away.
This will be a very spe-
cial model, which will
incorporate almost all
the technology we've
been able to develop
for this 20-year-old
platform before it fades
out. That means the F4 Claudio
which we displayed at EICMA
will essentially be the bike which
Leon Camier and Jordi Torres
raced so successfully at the high-
est level in World Superbike, and
it'll be quite special—a collector's
piece, with very advanced engi-
neering and materials technol-
ogy.
After that, we won't be manu-
facturing any four-cylinder hyper-
sport models for a while. We're
about a year into developing a
new F4 from the ground up, and
it'll probably take another two
years from now to be ready. We
expect to present it as a 2021
model, and it'll be radically dif-
ferent from any other hyperbike
ever made, just as the first F4
was 20 years ago.
That logo carries with it a lot
of history.
The Tourismo Veloce 800 SCS was
the first fully automatic MV, and the
company has plans to roll the system
out across the entire model range.
