2020 DUCATI PANIGALE V2
From a safe social distance, the baby Panigale doesn’t look like a baby at all, and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a full-on fire-breathing, 200bhp superbike. It gets some serious points in the aesthetics department with its bold Ducati red, its stubby underslung exhaust and its single-sided swingarm; it’s unmistakably Italian and it’s likely to give Ducatisti the world over a raging stiffy.
And if the looks alone are only trick enough to muster a lazy one, then the sound of the 955cc L-Twin Superquadro engine is sure to have the blood rushing south to finish the job. The twin-cylinder boom is exactly the kind of thing I want to hear when I fire a Duke up, and it takes me back to the good old days before they started bolting an extra two cylinders on the back of things. All it needed was the rattle of a dry clutch and I’d have been 10 years
