Moto Morini's last chance

[R160]

the factory and all IP being auctioned off come april, possible the best time for a buyer to step in and I imagine you would be buying it debt free?

cheap too for what your buying, please come forward some millionaire
http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news...orini-auction/

[Waikikablukar]

I hope someone saves them and not just cause I own one. They are an amazing bike to ride and just needed to be out there for a bit longer before more people took to them i think.

[R160]

theres a veloce going cheap in Perth too atm, along with the one down Rockingham, on bikepoint.

[Flamedance]

Yeah I hope someone steps up for them. Undoubtedly the most exhilarating machine I have ever owned. Plus I want to be able to buy parts for it...

[R160]

auction on the 13th, press gossip seems to suggest a italian and austrian duo are keen to revive the factory, with 2012 models already ready..


please let it be true...............

[Flamedance]

fingers are definitely crossed

[Xuaxace]

auction on the 13th, press gossip seems to suggest a italian and austrian duo are keen to revive the factory, with 2012 models already ready..


please let it be true...............

Are those the guys who want to put solar panels all over the place?

[Waikikablukar]

Any news on what happened here? I hope they were saved

[R160]

cruzed the web yesterday and saw nothing, i expect UK mcn will have some news on their website soon.

[R160]

Yesterday’s public bankruptcy auction in Bologna to acquire Moto Morini and put it back into business went down another black hole, with no offers being made.
The Italian motorcycle manufacturer first went into voluntary liquidation, with Paolo Berlusconi offering to buy the company out, but that was nixed by the trade unions and then a Canadian consortium seemed interested, but that panned out to nothing, as did the interest of Thomas Bleiner, a green energy entrepeneur.
The company will go back under the hammer this summer, and according to Italy’s newspaper La Republica, there are still three groups (two foreign and one Italian) interested in acquiring the company, but were unable to find the funds necessary to put in a bid in time for the auction.
But this could be the usual move, waiting for bankruptcy administrator to lower the initial bidding in a desperate move to sell off all the remaining assets as soon as possible to pay off all the outstanding debts, so they can take home the iconic marque with a lot less euros to dish out.

[R160]

the new auction due in July

babelfish translation from motociclismo website.




The Morini Motion will go of new to the auction the 19 July (knows it Audiences of the Court of Bologna), after that the first attempt went desert. Reduced prices and two possible options, like previewed already in the first attempt of sale. The first hypothesis previews the purchase of the company and the piece of real estate that 4.650.000 euros against the 5,5 of the first attempt accommodate it (auction base) or it can be chosen to acquire the single company without the piece of real estate (from 1.950.000 euros against the 2,6 of the past time). In alternative, it is possible to have comprised in the price the comodato one of use of the piece of real estate for two years.

The bankrupt curatore makes to currently know that the interests “have been indeed numerous, and, although the not easy moment in Italy for the industry of the two wheels, various entrepreneurs that gia' have visited the plant, they are working on the dossier that it has been supplied from cures it to you in order to decide if to carry out or less the investment”. Of various warning the secretary of the Fiom, Tawny Papignani, that moment announces “Al not is nobody for Morini”.

[R160]

Jeez, sometimes it really rubs me up the wrong way when you get riders (often american) coming out with crap like this (lifted from a US web site)
"
Another Eurotrash Ducati knock-off. There's way too many of these obscure manufacturers which frankly I've never heard of this "Moto Morini" until this article. Wouldn't miss it if it goes under."

Ducati knock off, funnily enough they were building bikes 20 years before Ducati!. Google it on wiki you dumb fuck..............

arh, i feel better now :-)