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Upcoming MV Agusta’s four-cylinder platform explained

Giovanni Castiglioni and the Sardarov, collaboratively owned MV Holding-The Holding company recently re-collected its 25 percent share of MV Agusta Motor acquired by Mercedes-AMG. Post the matter get sorted, MV Agusta started working on its upcoming four-cylinder platform.

The recent launch from the MV Agusta somewhere indicating the arrival of a new 1,000cc Brutale. The naked streetfighter is likely to be displayed at the EICMA in November this year. That will be followed by a ‘neo-classical’ cafe racer in 2020.

The new F4 that is the most-anticipated replacement of existing F4 in the lineup will not be launched until 2021. Whenever the new F4 will debut, an expected wild Hybrid powertrain with whooping power figures will confront the motorcycle to world’s fastest Kawasaki Ninja H2R. The new four-cylinder platform will be featured with technologies borrowed from WSBK racing division. As per the experts, the development of the new four-cylinder platform for naked flagship Brutale is a sensible move taken by the MV Agusta. As this super-naked segment is doing really well as compared to Superbikes in highly developed countries.

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On a sad note, the noted F4 range will be discontinued from MV Agusta’s lineup soon due to the bike was not BS-IV emission norms compliant. The last edition of the existing F4 was named as limited F4 ‘Claudio’ edition. The new upcoming four-cylinder platform based naked fighter should be a road-legal road-legal version of Leon Camier’s WSBK race bike with carbon-fibre wheels and some other high-end parts. The motorcycle is likely to be produced in a limited count and tagged with a premium price sticker.