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2020 MV AGUSTA BRUTALE 1000 PROTOT YPE
RIDE REVI EW
But first, the price…
The first 300 examples of the Bru-
tale 1000 will be the high-end limited
edition Serie Oro version costing 42,990 in Italy
($48,530), deliveries of which will commence in
September as a 2020 model, available only in a
single fire red color scheme.
Once those are built, production will begin of
the Normale RR version—but don't expect much
change out of 30,000 ($33,870) for one of
those, says MV's Direttore Tecnico Brian Gillen,
who heads up the 21-strong team of engineers in
Varese charged with developing all the company's
new models, alongside the comparable workforce
at the CRC design studio in San Marino, led by
MV's Design Director, Adrian Morton, where the
bike was conceived and styled. "We're still defining
the exact specification of the RR version in order
to get that into the price point where we
want it to be," says Gillen. "But it will have
the same exceptional performance as
the Serie Oro, as well as key technical elements
like the Ohlins electronic suspension. Dynami-
cally, they'll be almost identical. But in both cases,
there will be zero carryover parts from the previous
1090RR Brutale—even the 20 percent of common
components like the crankcases and gearbox have
been substantially modified on the new model."
Testing the 2020 MV Agusta
Brutale 1000
The opportunity to test the Brutale 1000 in pre-
production form came at the Pirelli test track at
Vizzola, about 20 miles from the MV factory. Not
being an MV employee, I wasn't allowed out on
the highway with the Prova plate the unregistered
bike was carrying. Anyway, that's where much of
The next-gen electronic
Ohlins suspension
helps the MV corner like
nobody's business.
