Hot gossip: New Ducati motor to power super-multistrada

There’s a hot rumour today that Ducati has built a new large capacity engine for new models that will start to appear in the firm’s 2016 range.

According to factory insiders, the motor will have Ducati Variable Timing (DVT) and will be put into a new sport-touring bike.

We’ve got no more on this motor at the moment, other than it’s big (real big) and based around elements of the Multistrada motor. So a Super Multistrada type of thing sounds on the cards. Possibly. And that makes much more sense than trying to eak another model out of something like a Panigale.