http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201501200299722?atmobcid=soc3 Brand new, though the price is a little ambitious.
Never ridden but 6 or 7 years old, second hand and out of the warranty and free servicing period. I'd be more inclined to buy one that has been ridden a bit and serviced properly. That was my plan before I happened upon mine 2 years ago genuinely brand new from Ducati Glasgow, with 3 yrs warranty and free servicing, and £6K worth of GP07 exhaust on it at a lower price than this one! Still - if a collector with the money wants it to stick in his private museum who knows!
Bike is unregistered according to the ad. If so, then perhaps that 20K premium is worth it for the servicing/warranty "if" it's going to be used for example as Dave has done...
It doesn't matter that it is unregistered. It was sold to the current owner by Ducati - probably in 2008/9 - and the 3 year free servicing and warranty package started at that point. It will have run out years ago. I bought mine brand new from Ducati Glasgow in 2012. I believe mine is the last one in the world with the free servicing and warranty package still running - and mine runs out this September.
It doesn't matter whether its registered, unregistered, new, made out of carbon fibre, titanium and myrrh.......................He's just bloody expensive.
Probably splitting hairs, but the ad does state that the name plaque would have the new owners name on it. The plaques were only given to first owners and are not available from Ducati. I'd bet the bike has been owned by a dealer and is "new" old stock, same as yours was with DG.
It can't be "new" old stock. The bike is being sold by "The Bike Specialists" - they aren't a Ducati Dealer.
Not sure that not being a Ducati "dealer" makes all that much difference. If they've been commissioned to sell the bike, SOR, (purely speculation), then they are nothing more than an agent - just like almost every Ducati "dealer"... If it's been purchased and registered with Ducati, then I'm at miss how they can advertise the bike as "brand new", available "LIMITED EDITION PLAQUE WILL ARRIVE FROM DUCATI IN YOUR NAME ONCE REGISTERED"... A number of owners bought these bikes, never registered them with Ducati on the premise their value would sky rocket. MR at DG had his very own bike (possibly now yours I guess) which was sold long after 2008/09 with the warranty/service package. The fact he is a partner in the business is irrelevant, he was a customer. Any which way, it's a heck of a bunch of cash (with or without the servicing/warranty) and if sold at that or even close to, makes me a very happy chappy ;-) All the previous comments are just speculation until someone actually contacts the seller to ask... Until then, I'm drinking sundowners on the balcony..!! ;-)
I think it does make a difference. Martin at Ducati Glasgow wasn't a "customer". He didn't buy my bike from Ducati ... DG did ... thus it didn't have any previous owners when I bought it from them in 2012. This bike is described as having one owner already, and if it came with the 3 years warranty and free servicing package then I'd have thought that the advert would mention it. So far as the plaque goes I imagine that the owner may have asked Ducati not to send it to him when he bought it, knowing that he might sell it on. If this is the case then a buyer at this time will be very lucky if they get the plaque from Ducati ... it may well have been lost over the last 7 years.
