Why did they call the 1098R so..

[Omar t]

Should they have called it the 1198R why a 1098 when its not?
Just curious....

 

[!!xooo]

Good point. I assumed it's a model 1098. It doesn't go by cc's. For example, model 999 it has 998 cc's. I believed only the 999R has the true 999 cc's.

Maybe, Ducati has a plan for a new model, 1198, in 2011.

Just my opinion.

 

[taerakwon]

they didn't wanted that the 1098 would be linkt to the 999, but more to the 998.
so no 1099 but 1098.

same counts for 848 is really 849.5cc, so they could have named it 849, but same reason, want it to link to 748 more than 749....

 

[big_swinns]

Good point. but I don't care, I am getting one in few years. Hope they make one in Pearl white. If not, demon red it is

 

[giftfromgod]

I read that they called it a1098 because 1099 would not be good for sales in the US because it would be associated with the IRS Form 1099.

 

[415Al3X]

it's a tradition ducati has whenever they make an R series bike. It's only produced for adherence to racing rules in production classes. hence the 749r was actually 849cc and the 999r was punched out 100cc as well.