Being produced in a limited amount of only 500, most of them got sold before the fair ended. For a decent €75.000 per bike. Crazy? Maybe. But it was the ultimate sport bike one could get. And if you’ve got the money.. well.. why wouldn’t you then?
In 2017, the brand came with a new model. The Ducati Superleggera 1299. It has 215 hp and a dry weight of just 156 kilos. The wet weight comes down to 178 kilos. If you added the race kit the power went up to 220 hp. We call that; a crazy amount of power. And the noise it makes! It growls like a monster. Frankly, it just is a monster. It makes the normal Panigale sound and feel like a puppy. Okay, we might exaggerate a bit. But you get the picture.
You could buy the Ducati Superleggera 1299 for the price of €88.000. Again, the limited amount of 500 bikes sold out in no time. It earned VW/Audi (the company that owns the Ducati brand) a mere €40 million. The 1299 Superleggera is the last one in the line of the Desmo V-twin street legal super bikes. ‘Cause in 2020 Ducati introduced the Ducati Superleggera V4.