Mata Guzzi Breva V750ie
With the Breva V7.50ie, Moto Guzzi
releases the calm before the storm.
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tory at Mandello del Lario, re-equipping its two production lines with the
latest in digital machinery, revamping
the infrastructure of its magnificent
museum, and developing a new
range of products to quadruple
Guzzi's annual production from less
than 5000 bikes in 2001 up to
20,000 units five years from now.
The first of these new models, displayed at Intermot 2002, has now
entered production, ready for an April
debut in dealer showrooms around
the world - the Breva V750ie.
The Breva is the name given by
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KYOICHI NAKAMURA
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three years after acquiring it
from Aprilia, the benefits of new
owner Ivano Beggio's huge investment in Moto Guzzi are becoming
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apparent. Totaling $120 million to
date, in addition to the $40 million he
spent up front in buying Italy's most
historic marque from De Tomaso and
his cronies in 2000, Beggio's bet on
being able to turn Guzzi around has
so far been devoted to restructuring
the company's historic lakeside fac-
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Mandello locals to the warm southerly
wind that blows the clouds away from
their Lake Como shores, and as Moto
Guzzi's entry-level world bike, the
Breva represents the first gusts of the
wind of change set to blow through
the marque's entire range over the
next few years - Un Vento di
Passione, proudly announced the
dustcover shrouding the bike about to
be unveiled by Ivano Beggio at the
Breva's March launch to the world's
press in an 11 th-century castle near
Como. As the first Moto Guzzi 750cc
model to be fitted with iniezione elet-
Rebuilding the legions: Moto Guzzi
Breva V750ie is designed to be a doit-all entry-level motorcycle. It is the
first in a line of exciting new offerings
to come out of the pipe since the
company was revitalized after being
purchased by Aprilia.
tronica, a.k.a. EFI, the Breva is distantly descended from the carbureted
750 Nevada, which started out life
back in 1986 in 350/500cc guise but,
as a 750, topped the custom/cruiser
sales charts in its Italian home market in 2002 with almost 1400 units
delivered and over the past decade
