MV Agusta

MV Agusta is a mark of motor bikes created in 1948 by Domenico Agusta, with Verghera (Meccania Verghera Agusta S.p.A., Gallarate).

Competition

  • Many titles in championship of the world
In 500 (John Surtees, Hocking, Mike Hailwood, Agostini)
    • 1956,1958 to 1974 without stopping
In 250
    • 1956,1958 to 1960
In 125

History

In 1907, the count Giovanni Agusta founds a factory of planes under the name of “  Costruzioni Aeronautike Giovanni Agusta ”. In 1927, the count dies by leaving with his Domenico son a company dying woman in a declining sector. The First War is finished and Italy needs to be rebuilt. Great road work are begun, the need for mobility is felt. The factory decides to produce, starting from engines of planes, of the small economic engines to equip with the bicycles. These two-stroke engines have a cubic capacity of 98 cm ³ and a box with two reports/ratios.

The Second War begins and the factory is occupied by the Germans. The production of engines for bicycles stops.

At the end of the occupation in 1948, Domenico creates Meccanica Verghera Agusta and is devoted only to the motorcylcist production. There remains nevertheless an aeronautical branch.

In the Seventies, the mark dominates the competition motorcylcist 350 cm ³ and 500 cm ³ with its pilot high-speed motorboat Giacomo Agostini. Two currents are opposed then within the direction of the factory. The first wants to devote a large part of the budget to the competition, with the risk to put the factory in bankruptcy. The other intends to reduce engagement in race to find a significant progression of the sales turnover. The compromise showed a fall of the production of the models of race and by the slimming of the road range.

In 77, the factory is at the edge of the bankruptcy. To hope to resort one day, it must give up the program competition. Waste of time and effort, the last model leaves the warehouses of Cascina Costa in 1980.

To beginning of the year 90, the Castiglioni brothers led Cagiva on the rails of the success, given Ducati to floods… It is especially impassioned enthusiastic defenders of Italian industry. They must thus make revive MV Agusta and integrate it into the Cagiva group.

But in parallel, their engagement with the 500 in Grand Prix is very expensive. They decide to stop the competition, but it is too late and finances are badly. They decide to preserve MV Agusta and to resell Ducati, being sentimentally and geographically nearer to MV. The CRC (Cagiva Research Center) will thus develop that which was imagined like replacing mythical Ducati 916: the F4.

Production

Outstanding models

  • 750 S

Contemporary production

  • F4 750 and 1000 in its various variations: Oro, S, R, R312, SPR, Senna, Ago, Mamba, Brutal Corsica, Tamburini, Veltro
  • 750 and 910 in its various variations: Oro, S, R, America, Gladio, Italia

External bonds

  • the official site MV Agusta
  • MV Agusta de Legende
  • MV Agusta Club of France

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