Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > 1198 / 1098 / 848 > 1098 undisguised!

[Herb]

I like the look of the front and side profile a lot, but don't like the twin underseat exhaust. It looks a bit dated to me.

[SlowLearner]

or does it look rubbish.

I can't believe that Ducati would release something that looks so average, so am clinging to the hope that the real thing is being hidden away until show time and will blow us all away .......

PS I was stuned by the 999 when it came out, didnt like it but was stunned !
PPS Now i love my T9s :-)

[Brent]

There won't be so many good deals on 999s now if that is a true pic.....

[the phantom pieman]

Even with our Ducati Lurve goggles on, you have got to say that that looks like it was designed by a man going through a bitter divorce ....

Hope it looks better in the flesh as it looks like a cast off from the triumph 675 drawings ....

[Rattler]

Looks good from this angle;

[Rattler]

If its the real deal - the back end looks a lot better from the side than the front, but at least they've cleaned up the numberplate area - it looked a mess on the 999s. One of the reasons that the race 999s look much better IMO.


Tim

[the phantom pieman]

Originally Posted by Rattler

Looks good from this angle;

No it doesn't ... it looks just like the Triumph crossed with a ZX6

Hardly original, is it?

[Rattler]

Originally Posted by the phantom pieman

No it doesn't ... it looks just like the Triumph crossed with a ZX6

Hardly original, is it?

Has anyone crossed a Triumph with a ZX6 before? - No - I'd say that was original then !!!

[Rod]

Originally Posted by the phantom pieman

No it doesn't ... it looks just like the Triumph crossed with a ZX6

Hardly original, is it?

Best you had send your CV off to Bologna then as you clearly are better qualified than a design team who had the brief of catering to all the 916 purists and the 999 lovers, whilst still coming up with something fresh (no easy task I might add) and ask them to take on board your well founded criticism, assuming as you have that this IS the final version. I am sure they will welcome your input and an opportunity to please a myriad of people the world over simultaneously.

[ratboy]

Don't agree, I think it looks outstanding... but then I also loved the 999 - oh well, each to his own...