Ducati Monster Forum

Petty I know, but it sounds much better. And now you can smugly correct someone. :)

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I guess VW actually owns all of them. Blech  [puke]

Yeah I kinda feel the same way. No offense to German engineering or anything but I had no idea VW was so monstrously huge...sucks when everything on earth is owned by a handful of mega corps and the Italian bikes we love aren't even really Italian.

Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars, now all restaurants are Taco Bell

Now All Restaurants are Taco Bell.flv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFiDoOgRTpk#)

 [laugh] That shit's almost true. One day WalMart will own everything and there will be "Great Value" brand motorcycles  [puke]

Can't tell ya how happy I am to have accidentally bought a 2013 Evo 1100.  It is the only year of that bike and the last of a great brand.

Here is a fun thought, there is no way in hell I would own a Ferrari or a Lamborghini.  Both are simply not well suited for real world driving and both are out of their element anywhere but a racetrack or showing off at some party somewhere.  VW?  They make nice enough cars but the better models are IMO overpriced as hell for something with a VW badge.  I would drive an Audi as they make some really nice drivable road cars.

Luckily I do not have to commute to work anywhere other than to my launch site and that being a whopping five miles from home I have no problem driving my ram 2500 when I need it.  When I want to do a road trip I rent cars.  Then I can thrash the crap out of them, wear out the tires and still get better mileage than my truck.

Oh and so much for Ducati being the Ferrari of Motorcycles.......  Bummer as "The Lamborghini of motorcycles" is simply complicated sounding.

...Audi owns Lamborghini. Sorry to break it to you.

And VW owns Audi...

And I own a VW, so I think that means I own Ducati.

Fixed...

How many Ferraris have you driven?

I have only driven one.  That being said it would be a Sunday track toy, not something I would drive around town.  Unless of course I was single and unattractive then I would need one badly.

You do know the old joke about Corvettes?  You only see two kinds of people driving Corvettes, hot blondes and ugly men.   [cheeky] 

 ;D

Damn bro you really busted my bubble! :P

Soooo true ^^^^ :D

:o It lives  ;D

It's been a little busy.   :-\

When we get the other house sold and the major service done on the old ferrari and the belts done on the bikes and I don't have to go testify before the State senate and the throttle cables replaced on the boat and the work contracts done and permits for the office acquired and various other first world problems about which I have no right at all to complain, things will settle down and I'll be around more.     [thumbsup]

Life is good, folks.   Ride hard.   On your Audi-owned monsters.

All I hear is...

blah...blah...blah. :-* [laugh]

 I don't care who owns Bimota, as long as I can ride one.

I can't imagine a Lamborghini without an image of Dong Johnson and Miami Vice and loud Hawaiian shirts. The Italian Corvette, for Italians with erectile dysfunction :P j/k

That was a testarossa


.... unless I'm missing the joke (which happens often)

Aaaaaannnyyyway,

If its made in Italy, by Italians, then it's an Italian bike.... regardless of parent company.


If not, then that would mean my Brutale is actually a Harley.... [puke] [puke]

 I think I own some VW stock through a mutual fund. That means I own Ducati too?

People that can afford exotic cars but think people that buy them are douchebags: frugal

People that can't afford exotic cars but think people that buy them are douchebags: jealous

Ferrari's, Lambo's, and such are bad ass machines. The sound is as magnificent as our Ducati's. The engineering, handling, and raw power is incredible. I think we see more around where I live then almost anywhere in the world and I never tire of them.

I bet they are but just really not my thing. I don't really care enough about cars to be jealous of them. Bikes are an entirely different story....

I just want one of everything.

actually, 1st it was a Ferrari Daytona Spyder and then later the Testarossa....but I may also be missing the joke too if there was one....

the problem with "most" exotic cars as I see it is this....most of them are WAAAAYYY over engineered for any kind of normal civilian street use and suffer issues from more or less atrophy because of being run in a manner less optimal than what they were origionally designed for....this based mostly on the fact that US streets don't provide legal opportunities to drive them as intended....kinda like the principle idea of the newb on a Hayabusa puttering around on a road while being passed like he is standing still by a guy on a 400cc motard....cars that are built to be used more within the realm of real potential on real roads are much more impressive to me.....hence why I give more respect to a car like Statler's Ferrari Mondial over a guy in a 599 or other cars of that ilk....especially when they are driven and done so regularly....

Nope, nobody missed a joke...going off my memory I'd thought there were Lambos with suicide doors in Miami Vice. Was never a fan of that show, I was a kid at the time and didn't watch much teevee, mainly just the A-Team and Dukes of Hazzard, lol

If one is really into a fast car for the purity of driving why buy anything besides an Ariel Atom?  I can crash five of those for one cheap Ferrari or ten for a decent Lambo.....

Although when money is no object I may buy a really nice Porsche.....

That was actually a replica built on a corvette chassis but I still thought it was cool.

the Atom is sweet, but I am also slightly partial to a Caterham Super 7....

Also a great and fun toy.  Silly as it sounds I am as happy racing a shifter cart as I would be racing a Ferrari.  When you get low to the ground everything is fast ( :

When it comes to racing I have had a ton of fun on 50cc pocket bikes with my buddies at a go cart track.....  Instead of trading paint we traded dye, from our leathers.  ;D

I came to Ducati by way of turbocharged RX-7...

My wife bought me one of those "drive a Ferrari on a track" experiences for people DP's age who are scared of motos.  After the drive, I told her if I couldn't ride I would have to own a Ferrari, even given the atrocious maintenance (remove the engine and replace the clutch every 10k). 

This.

I parted with my '07 GT500 primarily because after three years I came to the realization that 0-60 is all the fun I could legally have with the car on any regular basis without putting myself in serious jeopardy, plus the thing was a magnet for cops. Luckily I was never caught exercising the beast out in the boonies on a couple occasions.  [evil]

Throw in winters that last half the year and it just seemed like too much money to have tied up in such an animal. Fun? Hell yes, but on a nice summer day I'd prefer to ride one of the motorbikes.  [Dolph]

That's the problem with any Superbike as well. I took my RSV4 on a ride, and besides being uncomfortable at every single light & slow traffic area, I never needed to get it out of 3rd...even on the freeway! At least the Ferrari/Lambo/whatever has a comfortable seat!  ;D

1996-2005 Ducati was owned by TPG, a private equity investment firm.

I'd much rather have Ducati owned by an automotive company than a pack of soulless vampire beancounter sharks.

Thank you.  Make mine a 620R please.

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Certainly can't disagree with that...

It would just be nice if Ducati was just Ducati...MV was just MV...BMW was just BMW, etc. That's how brands keep their individuality while being pushed to improve by competition. Those days aren't coming back and it is what it is, but I'm jus' sayin'.

I agree.

TPG did a lot for Ducati though. I'm pretty sure they are responsible for installing better QC procedures, which was good for all of us. I also know that at least one of the TPG partners was a motorcycle guy, and a fan of Ducati...owning several.

That said, it would be nice if Ducati was just owned by Ducati. I don't think a car company is automatically any better than a private equity firm...seems the motorcycles could always just be viewed as the red-headed stepchild.

If you lived in Dubai, you might be driving one for work.

Grass is greener, as far as I'm concerned.  As a former Saab owner, I can say that having your favorite cult brand run by a massive international automotive conglomerate ain't so fun either.  In less than a decade of ownership, GM killed an iconic 60 yr-old brand.

Besides, I'm no Duc historian, but I thought the TPG years were prosperous compared to the dreadful eighties.  Lot of good bikes from '96-'05.

in the first year or so it was a white daytona (replica).  the characters crashed that one and
miami PD somehow got hold of a testarossa (replica).