Since my review of Ducati’s all-new Panigale V4 was posted, I’ve had several friends reach out to ask me – candidly – if it’s really as good as I claimed in my report. Indeed, it truly is.

2018 Ducati Panigale V4 First Ride Review

Ducati has done a magnificent job of taking lessons it learned in MotoGP and applying them to this V-4-powered street superbike. It had to, as the Italian brand’s legions of V-Twin fans would revolt if it weren’t.

Italophile skeptics of a four-cylinder Ducati need not fear the V4 Panigale. It’s easily one of the best sportbikes on the market, and it might even be the best street superbike I’ve ever thrown a leg over, with incredible arm-tugging power, sci-fi-level electronics, and sublime agility enabled by the engine’s MotoGP-inspired counter-rotating crankshaft.

MO’s 2017 Superbike Shootout

Please click on the link above for the full story on the Panigale V4. If you’ve already digested it and want to see and hear the seductive V-4 at full song, just scroll down a little bit further.

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