50% less maintenance cost on every 2007 Ducati

[astro]

straight from their website... has anyone seen this?and what exactly have they done to do this??

50% less maintenance cost on every 2007 Ducati
We are proud to announce that all 2007 Ducati models require less frequent service, less parts and labour during each service and, as a result, greatly reduced scheduled maintenance costs – by as much as 50%.

Reducing the cost of service when you visit your Ducati dealer for maintenance is one way to measure the new quality of Ducati. It also contributes immensely to making the Ducati ownership experience as satisfying as the Ducati riding experience.

Research and development is the number one investment at the Ducati factory. This investment in performance and quality includes our factory processes, machinery and the people who build each Ducati. By ‘engineering-in’ quality through design, materials and testing, every Ducati owner will enjoy significant and quantifiable improvements in every Ducati motorcycle.

To a rider, the best measure of quality is by the riding experience. You can feel a new smoothness to the legendary Ducati L-Twin, a more progressive nature to the powerful brakes and more confident road holding in every turn. Reliability and quality – one ride is all the proof you will need.

50% less – 100% Ducati – standard equipment in every 2007 model.

[spalding12]

now this IS good news
happy to read this

[Kmoss]

The new Ducs are actually made in Japan.

[foggy123]

I love when Ducati says their R&D is the reason for better maintenance. They copy the aftermarket! MBP developed a new collet so Ducati put a similar product in new bikes. MBP uses premium parts in heads and gets at least 2x the service intervals. Now Ducati comes out and says they developed the tech. Good for them for stepping up there maintenance, bad for them to claim to have developed it.

www.mbpducati.ca Guy has been doing this for years and even teaches tech days at Ducati events.

[In2Deep]

As a Japanese bike convert it looks like my timing is perfect!

[Purspeed]

The good news just keeps on coming.

[RD512]

Funny,
i posted this about Half a year ago, and there was no intrest back then...
it was all the 07 bikes were being Extended,
based on realized reliability of the previous models
...and updates to 07 new models

[lastblast]

Lol, and us with the older models <------2006 that will continue to help ducati dealerships profit in the service dept.

[brianmdavis]

Like I said before, I have not had one issue with my 999r. never a warranty claim nor a broken part of any kind. I don't mind paying for the 6k and 12k service. For as much enjoyment as I get from my bike, it's nothing. Besides, I ride the heck out of the thing and a checkup is a good thing every 6k miles. It is a racebike for petes sake