Ducati is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer that appears in Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition and Midnight Club: Los Angeles. The company is headquartered in Bologna, Italy and is directly owned by the Italian automotive manufacturer Lamborghini. In turn, Lamborghini is owned by German automaker Audi, who is owned by the Volkswagen Group.[1] Across the entire franchise, they only have seven motorcycles in total included in the Midnight Club Games.
History[]
Ducati was initally founded as SSR Ducati (Società Scientifica Radiobrevetti Ducati) on July 4, 1926 by Antonio Cavalieri Ducati and his three sons: Adriano, Bruno and Marcello. They produced radio components such as vacuum tubes and capacitors. By 1935, SSR Ducati was successful enough to construct a new factory in the Borgo Panigale district of Bologna. Production even continued during World War II, despite repeated bombings from Allied forces. The factory was eventually destroyed on 12 October 1944 by 40 "Consolidated B-24 Liberator" bomber planes as part of "Operation Pancake," a U.S. Army Air Force mission. Despite a destroyed factory, SSR Ducati still continued production.
Meanwhile, in Turin, a lawyer named Aldo Farinelli was developing a small "pushrod engine" that could be mounted on bicycles.[2] Aldo worked at the small car tuning firm SIATA[3], (Società Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori), who announced they would sell this engine to the public barely a month after Italy was independent in 1944. They called the engine the "Cucciolo" (Italian for "puppy") because of the exhaust sound the engine made. They first sold the engines alone, for customers to mount on the bicycle, then they eventually sold fully-motorized cycles.
In 1950, after more than 200,000 Cucciolos were sold, Ducati collaborated with SIATA and made their own Cucciolo-based motorcycles. This bike had 48cc, weighed 98 lbs (44 kg), had a top speed of 40 MPH (64 KM/H) and had a 15 mm carburetor (0.59 in.) giving just under 200 MPG (US). Ducati eventually changed the name to "55M" and "65TL." When larger motorbikes started coming out, Ducati unveiled their 65TS cycle and Cruiser (4-stroke scooter) at an early 1952 Milan auto show. Despite being interesting at the show, the Cruiser wasn't successful and only a few thousand were made over 2 years.
In 1953, Ducati management split the company into 2 separate entities: Ducati Meccanica SpA and Ducati Elettronica. These entities would separately focus on motorbikes and electronic products, by 1954 Ducati Meccanica increased production to 120 bikes per day. In the 1960s, Ducati made the fastest 250cc road bike available at the time, the Mach 1. In the 1970s, Ducati worked on making bikes with large-displacement V-twin engines, which Ducati called the "L-Twin" (90° angle), and in 1973, they created their trademark desmodromic valve design.
Ducati's ownership has changed many times over the years, but now they are currently owned by Lamborghini under Audi, under the Volkswagen Group since 2012.
Vehicles[]
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition[]
Midnight Club: Los Angeles[]
Logo History[]
The Ducati logo has gone through 10 different designs throughout its history. The first two logos represent the SSR Ducati radio company that the company initially started out as. For the next 15 years after 1940, Ducati would use different versions of the text-based logo. One of them uses a straight-lines sans-serif font, while another uses handwritten bold lines in all lowercase lettering.
The 1953 logo showed when Ducati split into 2 branches and the mechanical branch would focus on motorcycles. The next two logos would involve wings being used in the logos, one with a full depiction of a bird for Moto Ducati and one with just a wing-like emblem. The 1975 logo is a simplified logo designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. In 1985, Ducati had a funny logo involving an elephant on the top left of it. The next logo had a circle with a line through it, representing a capital "D". The latest logo features a triangular emblem with the Ducati wordmark inside of it. This logo closely resembled the logos used by the company's racing division: Ducati Corse. [4]
Ducati[]
Ducati Corse[]
References[]
- ↑ Ducati - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducati
- ↑ Ducati Cucciolo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducati_Cucciolo
- ↑ SIATA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siata
- ↑ Ducati Logo https://1000logos.net/ducati-logo/
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