In April 2007, Rediff News reported that Cagiva had tied up with Kinetic Engineering to build Cagiva singles in Pune, India. The primary player in this deal would the the 2-stroke, 125cc Cagiva Mito, as well as a 4-stroke version of the same. Previously Cagiva had exhibited a 60-horsepower 500cc Husqvarna-powered concept bike called the Cagiva Mito 500 at EICMA 2006. Apparently the idea for the Mito 500 seen here came from Giovanni Castiglioni, the son of MV Agusta Group President Claudio Castiglioni. Some parts may still come from Cagiva in Italy.

Kinetic‘s position as a distributor and partner of Hyosung bikes in India have led many (SOURCE) to speculate that the 4-stroke Cagiva Mito to be built in India may be Hyosung-powered, using Hyosung‘s 650 or 250 V-twins. However, the difficulties of shoehorning a V-twin into the space once occupied by a 125cc single has me thinking the Cagiva Mito 4-stroke will still be a big single.

I’ve been wanting Ducati to come up with a 500cc single for over a decade now ever since the Ducati Supermono was killed off and it looks like there’s finally an Italian single in the cooker, designed by Massimo Tamburini himself! Italian design and Indian production (think Tata 1-Lakh car frugality with lower procurement and manufacturing costs). Let’s keep our fingers crossed! The Cagiva distributor in Malaysia is Mofaz.

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In April 2007, Rediff News reported that Cagiva had tied up with Kinetic Engineering to build Cagiva singles in Pune, India. The primary player in this deal would the the 2-stroke, 125cc Cagiva Mito, as well as a 4-stroke version of the same. Previously Cagiva had exhibited a 60-horsepower 500cc Husqvarna-powered concept bike called the Cagiva Mito 500 at EICMA 2006. Apparently the idea for the Mito 500 seen here came from Giovanni Castiglioni, the son of MV Agusta Group President Claudio Castiglioni. Some parts may still come from Cagiva in Italy.

Kinetic‘s position as a distributor and partner of Hyosung bikes in India have led many (SOURCE) to speculate that the 4-stroke Cagiva Mito to be built in India may be Hyosung-powered, using Hyosung‘s 650 or 250 V-twins. However, the difficulties of shoehorning a V-twin into the space once occupied by a 125cc single has me thinking the Cagiva Mito 4-stroke will still be a big single.

I’ve been wanting Ducati to come up with a 500cc single for over a decade now ever since the Ducati Supermono was killed off and it looks like there’s finally an Italian single in the cooker, designed by Massimo Tamburini himself! Italian design and Indian production (think Tata 1-Lakh car frugality with lower procurement and manufacturing costs). Let’s keep our fingers crossed! The Cagiva distributor in Malaysia is Mofaz.

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