Driving Report Ducati XDiavel

Driving Report Ducati XDiavel

This Ducati ensures tingling on a very specific place

Driving Report Ducati XDiavel-driving

Ducati Ducati Xdiavel

  • Site author Marcus Efler

Fancy a motorcycle, which also in one "Mad Max"-Film could fit? Then the Ducati Xdiavel maybe the right thing. A Naked Bike for which you need long arms and a soulful gas hand. It ensures for tingling in certain body parts.

German carmakers and motorcycles? Sure, BMW is on the way on four and two wheels. Daimler’s sports brand AMG holds a 25 percent share of MV Agusta and is currently trying to tame the stupid Italians. And the Volkswagen Group?

The fact that Porsche engines develops for Harley-Davidson is above all known insiders. There has already been rather around that Audi 2012 Mercedes-AMG cleared out the Italian precious brand Ducati from a loose partnership. The vehicle builders from Ingolstadt and Bologna are now committed – which now shows itself in technical cooperation.

A Ducati feature does not even have BMW

So there is now Italian motorcycles with variable valve control. The power to the engine proper pressure from below and saves fuel. At cars, the state of the art, on two bikes, on the other hand, an exception appearance. That’s not even BMW bikes.

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Ducati Ducati Xdiavel

Ducati driver got the principle already last year when they ordered the new Multistrada. Who this travel enduro was still too close to the reason of an Audi A4 Avant, who can strike this year: in the powerful Naked Bike XDiavel.

Macho bike for Mad Max

This machine is a macho two wheel that could race through a MAD max movie. Already in the stand, the thick Italian is explained to the only sovereign type of locomotion for real guys. The stub gear underlines optically the long wheelbase: straight ahead and through, that’s your thing, and not petite circles through curves. And if the 247 kilos advocates: Hold on, when accelerating the arms are very long. Already from 3000 revolutions, the two cylinders loosely releases and catapult the bike with the help of a timing belt drive and the indecent fat 240er rear wheel forward. Not gentle, but root. Already at 5000 tours is full torque, at 9500 the maximum power of 156 hp, and then, sorry, you have to say that: Kribbelt’s in the eggs.

Driving Report Ducati XDiavel-driving

Ducati The LCD display is bad in the Ducati cockpit

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Man sits with front legs in front and almost upright up the wind wind. He looks at a digital display that is smaller than that of most smartphones. Tiny about the daily kilometer counter, but no matter: whether he drove far enough, does not say no number, but his butt. And seems the sun directly on the scarf, nothing is possible anyway. Maybe Audi could help here too, with the super bright LCD of the virtual cockpits.

Mini screen, but practical start

About virtually against it is the "handsfree system": a pressure on the start button lets the engine brabble. For cars where this technology is already widespread, you can quite argue about the meaning, in motorcycles he is clearly recognizable: Now the biker does not have to fumble the key from the knotted bags of his leather jacket with gloved fingers.

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Ducati Ducati Xdiavel

There are full-led headlights and the noble variant xdiavel s the ability to pair his smartphone including music collection – for all the engine does not press enough sound into the ears. All buttons are chic redlimmt – including a menu button to select countless setups that can probably only take advantage of Jorge Lorenzo.

Krad meets high tech

So the XDIAVEL is a fascinating mix of high-tech bike and almost anarchically stuck crade, which does not seem to shear the slightest for ecological aspects or social compatibility. A little bit of this, at least 20.000 Euro expensive Ducati like a Harley chopper on Ecstasy. In fact, Ducati is now reinforced in the area and the expensive price segment of the AMIS.

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Ducati That’s a rim: Ducati Xdiavel

And at the latest since the takeover by Audi the Italians BMW is considered a natural competitor. With the iconic scrambler, Ducati is currently rolling the market for (re-) beginners, here is BMW now with the even lighter G 310 R. But the struggle for power and prestige fencing the displacement alpha bikes. BMW is clearly market leader – not least because of the proven combination of driving pleasure and everyday use. For this purpose, the Austrian brand KTM escapes its former image as a dirt road Bolzer and attacks with thick things on the street. And if then the British brand triumph survives the Brexit, the European Championship of the traditional brands can be really exciting in the future.

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2 thoughts on “Driving Report Ducati XDiavel

  1. Cool machine
    Nice article about this "Over-bike". But would have been nice if the technical of the … Nice article about this "Over-bike". But would have been nice if the displacement had been specified in the technical data. Is always the first, or?

  2. Horny bike
    Really nice part that really desire to drive on the motorcycle . However, the part is really too expensive for the few sundays a year, unfortunately.

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