Ducati Diavel AMG

I was going through some pics from last year's LA Auto Show and came across this beauty..

The Diavel AMG was created to celebrate Ducati's partnership in MotoGP with AMG. This rare beast was hand-built (as with all Ducati motorcycles) and is dressed in matte black carbon fiber bodywork with AMG’s very own “Diamond White Bright” stripe and frame color contrasted with black wheels. The special edition wheels, seat and exhaust end-caps are all AMG branded while “AMG” is also laser-engraved into the air-duct panels either side of the fuel tank.

With Audi's purchase of Ducati earlier this year, questions about the status of the special-edition 1198cc V-Twin power-cruiser were raised when AMG’s parent company, Mercedes Benz, released the following statement: 

“Since the end of 2010, a successful marketing cooperation has existed between AMG and Ducati. The company takeover by a rival car manufacturer has understandably resulted in the end of any further collaboration. The takeover of Ducati was never our aim—our focus lies clearly in developing and producing premium performance cars, and we will be concentrating all our energy on this.”

Ducati says the Diavel AMG has been produced and plans to start deliveries this summer at a price of $26,495..clearly this is going to be a collector's dream bike.