These links may be of interest: https://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/threads/is-it-a-916-sps.67448/ https://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/threads/996sps-history.94436/ https://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/threads/996-sps-fr2.94142/ . Hope they help. Tom.
1700+ per year….. Some people also think MHRs are rare…. there were more than 7000 of them made. Limited edition is pure sales lingo.
https://www.ducatiforum.co.uk/threads/996-sps-production-numbers.68685/ 1780 in total from readily available factory supplied data, only 120 came to the UK and I know 4 of those are dead.
Seems like it it didn’t sell. Too high a reserve price ? That logic was abandoned when the VINs went from the « old school » 13-digit system to the « global » 17-digit one, circa model years 1997/1998, I would assume, when Ducati changed hands from Cagiva to TPG. So there likely never was a ZDM996*xxxxxx* on a frame. Rather like the following examples : 996SPS 1999 ZDMH100AAXB###### 996SPS 2000 ZDMH100AAYB###### 996S 2001 ZDMH100AA1B###### 996R 2001 ZDMH200AA1B######
So on a refresh of the site I had a flash of a partially rendered page and it showed £15,000 which was not the final bid. So I think possibly that was reserve I saw ? Maybe ? I dunno. Either way I had £16k in my head... Needed a new rear shock... but otherwise looked very clean
They don't have any 'selling fees' its 'list for free, sell for free' and instead charge a buyers fee of 6% plus VAT which when compared to other auction houses seems pretty fair value to me.......
That is the second time we know of, this bike has failed to sell. What, apart from the seller’s seemingly ambitious expectation, is putting buyers off ? Andy
Can only think the same, that the sellers reserve is higher than the market is prepared to stump up (+6%+vat)
