Ducati and Bentley are proud to collectively announce a brand new, limited-edition bike that celebrates the perfect of each iconic manufacturers: the Ducati Diavel for Bentley. Born from a collaboration between the 2 producers, the undertaking hyperlinks Ducati and Bentley with a imaginative and prescient of efficiency, craftsmanship, and exclusivity. The result’s a putting synthesis of expertise, type, and efficiency able to making fanatics dream. The bike can be revealed to the general public tonight with a ‘fuorisalone’ occasion at Artwork Basel in Miami, the abroad version of essentially the most prestigious European modern artwork truthful.

On the delicate technical base of the high-performance and cozy Diavel V4, Ducati has built-in characterizing parts of the Bentley Batur – of which solely 18 examples can be handcrafted by Bentley – to create a bike distinctive when it comes to magnificence and design. The Diavel for Bentley can be created in a numbered sequence restricted to 500 examples, plus an extra 50 extra particular “Ducati Diavel for Bentley Mulliner” motorbikes. The latter are reserved for Bentley clients and embrace the personalization and individuality that’s so intrinsic to the Batur on which the bikes are based mostly.

Batur is Bentley’s strongest manufacturing automobile ever, with a 740 PS twin-turbo W12 engine. Greater than that, the Batur combines benchmark Bentley craftsmanship with sculptured, muscular bodywork that defines a brand new design DNA for Bentley which previews a brand new design course for the model. The visible message communicates nice energy and magnificence, with out ostentation or extra. The 18 examples of the Batur are individually hand-crafted by Mulliner, the oldest coachbuilder on the planet, and Bentley’s in-house bespoke division.

The Centro Stile Ducati, in collaboration with Bentley designers, created a brand new design for this particular bike, drawing inspiration from the Batur from which it takes the strains of the aspect view. The Scarab Inexperienced color, subtle and refined and wealthy in metallic shades comes from the Bentley Mulliner palette and is used all through the bodywork. The decisive and aggressive strains of the Diavel V4 have additionally been profoundly revised by way of the technical parts: lots of the attribute options of the Batur are taken up in numerous elements of the bike. The cast rims, designed and created for this bike, recall the shapes of these of the automobile and are painted in Darkish Titanium Satin, leaving some machined surfaces seen.

The aspect air intakes replicate the two-tone entrance grille, one of the vital recognizable parts of the Batur. The triangular rear extractors seek advice from the corresponding parts of the automobile. The entrance mudguard, the fairing, and the higher view of the tank recall the ribs on the entrance bonnet, whereas the single-seater tail, which might be changed with a passenger seat, takes many styling cues from the rear of the Batur. Most of the bodywork parts are manufactured from high-quality carbon fiber (fenders, headlamp cowl, engine, exhaust and radiator covers, radiator shrouds, aspect panels, and tailpiece).

The rider’s seat, in black Alcantara, is impressed by the automobile’s inside, with precision workmanship that reveals the underlying purple material with the identical as that of the Batur seats and with the Bentley brand embroidered on the rear pad. The twin outlet exhaust, with its cowl, has been redesigned to harmonize with the refined strains of the bike.

Along with the five hundred Diavel for Bentley examples, Ducati additionally affords a sequence of simply 50 examples, referred to as Diavel for Bentley Mulliner. The 50 Diavel for Bentley Mulliner motorbikes can be out there completely to clients of Mulliner, who by way of direct collaboration with the designers of the Centro Stile Ducati, will be capable to configure their Diavel for Bentley Mulliner with totally different colours for the saddle, entrance brake calipers, carbon fiber elements and rims. They may even be capable to select the identical colour as their automobile for the bodywork elements or a kind of from an unique palette chosen by Mulliner’s designer for this particular and extremely unique sequence.

The Diavel for Bentley, like all collectible Ducatis, is delivered with a certificates of authenticity, a passenger seat, and a bike cowl. The mannequin’s identify and the unit’s manufacturing quantity are proven on a plate inserted within the carbon fiber cowl of the vertical head, on the fitting aspect of the bike. Each the dashboard, geared up as customary with a turn-by-turn navigator, and the LED matrix of the rear gentle cluster supply a particular animation on the key-on which makes the Diavel for Bentley much more unmistakable. Lastly, every Diavel for Bentley can be delivered in an unique personalised picket case.

The collaboration between the 2 producers has additionally led to the creation of a Capsule Assortment, reserved for Diavel for Bentley house owners, which permits clients to finish their look with a jet helmet and a technical jacket (out there in each males’s and ladies’s variations) in a restricted version, characterised by a colour scheme that displays that of the bike. The Diavel for Bentley adopts the 1,158 cc V4 Granturismo engine, a central component of its design and on the similar time a extremely refined technical alternative. Highly effective (168 hp), wealthy in torque but additionally extraordinarily gentle and compact, it’s on the similar time fluid and usable proper from the bottom revs. The Twin Pulse combustion order, along with the devoted exhaust system, unmistakably characterizes the timbre of the exhaust.