I've fired up my patented 'Luddite-ometer' and it's telling me the Scrambler should sell well. When the Panigale came out it scored a 75% hate rate, the Diavel scored an unprecedented 100% on the hate scale, but the Scrambler is doing fine at only 50%. If only they'd fitted a single-sided swingarm, it would have already been sold out...
The Diavel has won everyone over by the way it rides. It still looks a bit of a mutt to my eyes but it is an absolute riot to ride. The big Panigale is pure, distilled lunacy. There are better and cheaper sports bikes out there for road and track but the Pani is an icon of excess. People will always want a piece of that. It remains to be seen what special something the scrambler has going for it. Although its not for me, I hope they do well with it - Ducati need bread and butter bikes to fund things like Streetfighters. Although its clearly a rehash of an historic model its not nearly as convincing in that respect as Triumph's Bonneville range. In fact it has have the air of a south east Asian commuter bike. Is it really aimed at our market?
Probably aimed mainly at the market in Thailand and other ASEAN countries, and to be built there too. "Scrambler" is just a marketing word - this bike has nothing whatever to do with actual scrambling, and virtually nothing to do with the 1960s Ducati Scrambler model. If you want to recycle a heritage name from Ducati's past ... Marianna, Elite, Sebring, Pantah ... take your pick.
I cant wait to see one in real life at Riders in Bristol so I can take a look and say ......."yeah - it really is shit...."
Just had an email with the prices. £6995 for the Icon one and all of the others £7995. I think they are going to sell a lot of these. I love the look of the Full Throttle.....
Not sure. Certainly the Full Throttle has Termis on it. One assumes there will be other differences but not seen a spec comparison....
5k grand and I could pass by the shitness of the whole thing but 8k - theyre looking at numbers in the high 'teens
She's the urban endure model? I can understand the endurance bit, which is good (for some ) but what does the urban bit bring in to the equation - does she clean up afterwards and do the dishes?
You could apply that line of thought to any new bike or car though. £30k for a Land Rover Freelander, you could get a second hand Range Rover for that ! Some people like new stuff.
I was wondering how much the original ones were as you could buy one, have more street cred and not suffer the dreaded depreciation. Thought they would be much cheaper too. I was wrong..... £10K. Is this because of the new model arriving or were these this sort after before too. 1971 Ducati R/T 450 Classic Enduro/Scrambler - Show Winning, Exceptional | eBay
