VOL. 52 ISSUE 10 MARCH 10, 2015 P47
D
ucati's creation of the gorgeous, ground breaking 1199 Panigale
three years ago turned out to be a job half done. In completely
reinventing the traditional 25-year old architecture of its iconic
90-degree desmo V-twin otto valvole engine format—as part of its
pursuit of producing the highest performance street legal Su-
perbike yet available—Ducati to some extent threw the baby
out with the bathwater.
For in creating the heavily oversquare 112 x 68
mm Superquadro ultra short-stroke engine (and
endowing it with the largest diameter pistons
to be found in the engine of any produc-
tion car or motorcycle available today),
Ducati certainly obtained the kind of
outright performance that enabled
the 1199 Panigale to more than
keep pace with the ever
more potent 1000cc fours
DUCATI'S MODERN PANIGALE COMBINES PERFORMANCE WITH
THE MUSCULAR MID-RANGE TORQUE OF ITS DESMO HERITAGE.
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