Harley-Davidson ja Ducati yhdistymässä?
Jutusta käy ilmi että MV Agustan pääpaikka on Varesen kylässä joka on tuossa muutaman kilometrin päässä mun tämän hetkisestä sijainnista. Mukavan yhteen sattuman asiaan tuo se että ne Italo harrikat eli aermacchit on tehty aikoinaan tuossa samaisessa "kylässä".Swine kirjoitti:http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/art ... icle=33200
eikä pelkästään samassa kylässä...mikira kirjoitti: Mukavan yhteen sattuman asiaan tuo se että ne Italo harrikat eli aermacchit on tehty aikoinaan tuossa samaisessa "kylässä".
(kopsattu toiselta foorumilta)Harley Davidson is buying the exact same factory they sold to Cagiva in 1978, and rebuying it from the same guy they sold it to 30 years ago!.... Cagiva/MV and its Schiranna, Italy factory = Aermacchi HD from 1970-78. Same property, same factory. Harley started collaborating with Aermacchi in 1960, then bought them outright in 1970. In '78 Cagiva bought Aermacchi and renamed it.... They built another plant across the lake, bigger and newer, in the 90s, and it went to BMW last year, as part of the "Husqvarana" deal, which was actually the purchase of that plant and the rights to the Husqvarna name and product line that Cagiva had acquired in the 80s. Ten-fifteen years ago they assembled Ducatis there too, before selling Ducati in the 90s (shhhh... don't tell, 916s and Monsters weren't all assembled in Bologna).
Anyhow, in today's deal Harley gets the old Cagiva/Aermacchi factory on the lake where MVs are now made, and where very fast Macchi racing seaplanes were once made during the Mussolini era. Harley also gets the rights to the MV Agusta name, for motorcycles, and the MV Agusta product that Cagiva (meaning Claudio Castiglioni) recreated in the 90s... "real" MVs were made long ago, just down the road in the town of Gallarate, where they still make Agusta helicopters. Harley also gets Cagiva Research Center (CRC), which is Massimo Tamburini's studio near Rimini, where Cagiva built it to convince Tamburini to join Cagiva in the mid-80s. Tamburini, fo those who don't know, is the TA in Bimota, the designer of the Ducati 916 and MV Agusta superbikes. A notable fellow.
No doubt Castiglioni and Tamburini are staying on with Cagiva now because H-D has agreed to provide funding to develop some exciting new bikes that H-D sees as complementary to the existing Buells... Overall, there is a real synergy between the two companies. H-D has a very real understanding of what makes buyers of historic marques love their motorcycles, and I'm sure discussions leading to the purchase agreement have shown that H-D and the Cagiva/MV guys are on the same page in this respect. These aren't scooter guys, these are long term motorcycle industry people on both sides of the deal, representing the most prestigious marques in their repsective segments. Its just that H-D is much stronger on the business side, and Cagiva/MV much stronger on the engine design and Italian style sides.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away - Antoine de Saint Exupéry