No you need a porsche still...and you live in Milton so you must be a cool guy. Is it the white monster I see around milton?
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Audi buying ducati!! wow
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Good thing you predicted, and didn't make a bet...!!!
Deal to close within a month (according to BNN this morning).
Audi to pay slightly over $1B.
Still not official.
Perhaps, but expect the announcement at or prior to the VW Group's annual shareholder meeting, which is 19 April.
nope mine red, ducati's really should be red. My wife keeps making noise about a porche boxster, claims its an affordable porche. Porche and affordable dont fit into the same sentence well.
Well......whaddaya know...... it indeed looks like this deal is done.
1.12 billion dollars.
I'll have to eat my hat now.
Interesting tidbit :
1.12 billion dollars.
I'll have to eat my hat now.
Interesting tidbit :
ABOUT DUCATI Ducati makes about 40,000 two-wheelers a year. By comparison, industry leader Honda sold more than 16 million motorcycles last year.
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Latest news:
REUTERS is reporting that Ducati has been sold to Audi for some 860 million Euros and that the deal will be officially announced tomorrow.
The deal sees Audi taking on Ducati's debt, the level of which is unclear, and will finally give VW boss Ferdinand Piech a grip on Ducati – something he previous said he's regretted not having for quarter of a century after a previous attempt to buy the company failed in 1985.
The 75 year old, who's expected to be re-elected as VW chairman at the firm's shareholder meeting later this week for another 5 year term, is already a Ducati rider.
Read more: http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle...-in-the-audi-t-shirt/20474.html#ixzz1sOeHSk00
REUTERS is reporting that Ducati has been sold to Audi for some 860 million Euros and that the deal will be officially announced tomorrow.
The deal sees Audi taking on Ducati's debt, the level of which is unclear, and will finally give VW boss Ferdinand Piech a grip on Ducati – something he previous said he's regretted not having for quarter of a century after a previous attempt to buy the company failed in 1985.
The 75 year old, who's expected to be re-elected as VW chairman at the firm's shareholder meeting later this week for another 5 year term, is already a Ducati rider.
Read more: http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle...-in-the-audi-t-shirt/20474.html#ixzz1sOeHSk00
Ninjitsu
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Here's a nice little slideshow with history about Ducati
http://images.businessweek.com/slid...is-motorbikes-racing-through-the-years#slide1
http://images.businessweek.com/slid...is-motorbikes-racing-through-the-years#slide1
That's comforting to know. Always good to have the people running the show, using the products they sell. In an ideal world, love to see the German engineering make nice with the Italians design aesthetics....
BINGO! if the audi/vw service rates and parts prices are an indication, boutique pricing will be in full effect. I'm pleased Duc will now have a solid financial footing, It will be something to watch styling changes if the VW group influences that.
Look who just bought a new 848 EVO.
http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/20/justin-bieber-new-motorcycle-ducati/?adid=hero4#.T5Hs12DOWPs
http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/20/justin-bieber-new-motorcycle-ducati/?adid=hero4#.T5Hs12DOWPs
or before he kills himself 848 with no license, that can't end to well.
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