Business – Full power motorcycles: Ducati’s big offensive on the 100 hp front! – Used DUCATI

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Full power motorcycles: Ducati’s big offensive on the 100 hp front !

Business - Full power motorcycles: Ducati's big offensive on the 100 hp front! - Used DUCATI

On the front line of the battle of 100 horses, which will end on January 1, 2016 with the disappearance of this French specificity, Ducati is leading a great offensive which seems to leave other motorcycle manufacturers behind: the French subsidiary of the Bologna brand is managed to register in France two new Multistrada 1200 DVTs in "homologation …

On the front of the battle of 100 horses, which will end on with the disappearance of this French specificity, Ducati is leading a good offensive which seems to leave the other motorcycle manufacturers in place: the French subsidiary of the Bologna brand has managed to register in France two new Multistrada 1200 DVTs in "European homologation" … with their 160 horses !

MNC readers – who, as everyone knows, have a little more power than others – already know that the new Multistrada 1200 DVT (read our) can automatically take advantage of its original power due to its Euro4 approval..

It could even have been registered in "full" from its beginnings in if it had not encountered administrative obstacles on its course (read).

But the horizon has now cleared and the general manager of Ducati West Europe, Thierry Mouterde, proudly presented this morning in Paris the first two models of Multistrada "full power", gray cards to support: one directly in free version on July 10 (below left), and the other first in French version on March 31, then in European version (below right). With both the precious "112" for … 112 kW (160 hp)…

Ducati France offers you European homologation !

And so as not to penalize those who have already fallen for the new Multi in the French version – amputated by 60 horses! -, Ducati France offers them the cost of upgrading (modification of the mapping, manufacturer’s plates, vehicle registration document and issue of a certificate of conformity by the manufacturer) to recover all of its power (112 kW, i.e. 160 horses): a total gift "of around 350 euros depending on the prefectures", specifies Thierry Mouterde.

Regarding Euro3 models, Ducati France considers that the famous "retrofit" often mentioned by the government (read in particular and) simply does not have to be: "it is a simple administrative change of version, as for the passage from a 35 kW motorbike intended for A2 licenses to a 70 kW motorbike ", estimates Mr. Mouterde.

It would then be sufficient for owners of motorcycles produced after 2007 (Euro3 standard) to go to their dealership to perform the unclamping, subject to the availability of parts and technical feasibility..

But beware: the dealer will take photos of the motorcycle to support its compliance and "we will not be able to provide a certificate of conformity for a vehicle with non-approved components", warns Thierry Mouterde. It would therefore be wise, if necessary, to carefully repair the indicators, silencer, mirrors, etc..

No increase in insurance premiums

"For older motorcycles the problem is different, because manufacturers are only obliged to maintain a stock of spare parts for ten years", adds Thierry Mouterde. And the icing on the cake: according to the motorcycle insurers contacted by Ducati France, "no increase in premium is to be expected insofar as it is the same vehicle, whether in 106 or 160 horsepower", continues the head of the French subsidiary.

European regulation n ° 168/2013
relating to the type-approval and market surveillance of two- or three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles

Article 82 : "From 22 March 2013, the national authorities shall not refuse, if a manufacturer so requests, to grant EU type-approval or national type-approval to a new type of vehicle or to prohibit registration, the placing on the market or entry into service of a new vehicle where the vehicle concerned complies with this Regulation and the delegated and implementing acts adopted pursuant to it ".

This reasoning, supported by the jurists of the National Automobile Professions Council (CNPA), is based on an extensive interpretation of Article 82 of the European Parliament and of the Council of January 15, 2013 (opposite). In short: the same procedure must apply to Euro3 vehicles, from the moment the model has received European approval via its National Type Identification Code (CNIT).

To support this argument in front of the Direction de la circulation et de la securite routière (DSCR) representing the French government, the Chambre Syndicale Internationale de l’Automobile et du Motocycle (CSIAM), which is monitoring the case in France for all manufacturers, requested arbitration in Brussels.

"This arbitration, which will be imposed on the French government, will allow us to see if our interpretation was the right one. But I am particularly confident!", Underlines Thierry Mouterde … To be continued naturally on MNC: stay connected !

Eric MICHEL

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