LAMBORGHINI by Ducati!

Honestly, we never quite ‘got’ previous Ducati/Lamborghini tie-ins – the posh limited-edition Diavel 1260 and Streetfighter V4 done up in Lamborghini paint schemes. Although, since we’d struggle to afford any Lambo outside the Hot Wheels range, we’re probably not the target audience anyway (again). But this makes much more sense from the two Volkswagen-owned brands: an Italian superbike – the Panigale V4S – honouring an Italian supercar – the Lamborghini Revuelto. That’s the latest car from the firm, with a hybrid powertrain making 1015bhp from a V-12 petrol engine and three electric motors. It has a carbon-fibre chassis, tops 220mph, hits 0-60 in 2.5 seconds and costs around £450k.

A nice little runaround for popping to Tesco, no doubt. And the bike is pretty neat, too. Ducati’s taken the base 2025 Panigale V4S – an incredible bit of kit – and added some trick paint from the Lamborghini spray can cupboard, a dry clutch conversion, plus a titanium Akrapovic pipe. You also get forged aluminium wheels and carbon fibre bodywork, all saving a couple of kilos over stock, meaning 185kg wet with no fuel and 218.5bhp peak power. Just 630 of the ‘standard’ Lambor-gales will be produced, with an extra 63 ‘special’ variants reserved for genuine Lamborghini owners, which can be painted to match their cars, or whatever other Lambo-hue they fancy.

And, of course, buyers will get the usual certificates, bike covers, wooden crates, fancy ignition key and a one-off animation on the LCD dash start-up screen. So far, so decent, but the price is pretty stiff, considering the spec. £75k is the RRP, for which we’d probably liked to have seen some carbon wheels, perhaps the Brembo Brake Pro+ big-discs and GP4 caliper package and the race Akrapovic system in the box, too. Regardless of our ‘little people’ moans though, the Bologna firm will no doubt sell the full allocation to the collectors and Limited Lambo… by Ducati completists out there, and good luck to them all.

As ever, if you buy one and need a hand running it in round Cadwell Park to win Inters, we’ll be more than happy to help ye out…