I read somewhere that the deal post-acquisition was that Aprilia gets the sportbike segment and Guzzi the rest. Has that changed?
I will never forget the V11 successor that might have been, the story of which seems to have been excised from the historical record, Pierre Terblanche‘s V12 LM concept.
I know it was polarizing especially perhaps the headlight, but just look at that swingarm-shock combo and the underslung exhaust!
Not to mention the passive radiators for the valve heads. I rode for about two hours yesterday in 6 centigrade and the valve covers were worryingly hot so that radiator not only improved the lines in my humble opinion, it is also quite necessary.
At the time they came out with a bunch of models but never followed through ostensibly due to the aforementioned segmentation of the market by the Piaggio group.
I could only find two videos on YT about the Terblanche V12 LM, will look for and add them to the thread later.
I am excited about all the new model renders in this thread though, as I find the looks of the current line up including the V100 Mandello quite underwhelming.