Ducaudi...

[daemonoid]

Looks like Audi have a good chance of buying Ducati:

https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/Audi-to-buy-Ducati--the-four-rings-expands-from-four-wheels

Sorry if already posted but I couldn't find it.
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[Rogerborg]

Project Eagle? 4 wheels and 2 wheels, let's compromise in the long tradition of German-Italian axial cooperation...

https://i42.tinypic.com/35iun81.gif
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[c-m]

I'd rather see the Audi or VW brand enter the motorcycle market in their own right, rather than take over a current brand.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Better to be sold to VAG than to BMW.
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[Dilyan]

I'd love to see Italian design and German quality. The other way round, well, not so much.
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[miss.metallica]

"What bike do you ride?"
"An Audi"

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[N cee thirty]

mate said that it might be because audi wanna use the desmodromic valves the ducati have a patent for
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[Dilyan]

[Rogerborg]

I can see an "Audi Multistrada" - or "Audi ÜberAbenteuerMotorrad" - giving BMW a fright, but why buy Ducatti just to rebadge them?

Actually, why buy Ducatti at all? I suspect this is just a mid-corporate-life crisis and they'll come to their senses and go and buy some sportscar company instead.
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[daemonoid]

[Poseidon]

Audi buying an Italian motor company?

https://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/crop/201103/2012-lamborghini-aventado-10_460x0w.jpg

Nah, I can't see it leading to anything good at all.
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[Duke46]

Ah, but they thought they were buying a tractor outfit. Well they were sort of...

Big money behind a bike company is no bad thing as long as they keep the individual design teams.
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[janner_10]

Its not like they did Skoda any good when they brought that!!
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[Duke46]

Skoda cars are OK, it's the image they have a problem with. Ducati have a bit of a head start with the image thing.
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