I ride a Ducati. Ducati Motor Holding is headquartered in Bologna Italy.
Nice bike! Are they hard to get in the US?
No, not really. It's now owned by Audi through its Italian subsidiary Lamborghini. Complicated business set up.
I heard they are well designed motorcycles - Italians care a lot about style!
they had become successful enough to enable construction of a new factory in the Borgo Panigale area of the city. Production was maintained during World War II, despite the Ducati factory being a repeated target of Allied bombing.
Meanwhile, at the small Turinese firm SIATA ("Societa Italiana per Applicazioni Tecniche Auto-Aviatorie"), Aldo Farinelli began developing a small pushrod engine for mounting on bicycles. Barely a month after the official liberation of Italy in 1944, SIATA announced its intention to sell this engine, called the "
Ducati (company)
Ducati is a group of companies, best known for manufacturing motorcycles and headquartered in Borgo Panigale, Bologna, Italy. The group is owned by German automotive manufacturer Audi through its Italian subsidiary Lamborghini, which is in turn owned by the Volkswagen Group.
The group currently comprises four companies:
- Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., a motorcycle-manufacturing division previously known as Ducati Meccanica
- Ducati Corse, which runs the Ducati motorcycle racing program and is wholly owned by Ducati Motor Holding