More than the sum of its parts
The early 1970s was a difficult time for MV Agusta. Not least because in the January of 1971, while accompanying the President of Finland Urho Kekkonen on a visit to the factory, company founder Count Domenico Agusta suffered a heart attack. He passed away four days later in his Milan apartment.
Very much the figurehead of and driving force behind MV, the count’s untimely death hit the firm hard and what direction there was towards commercial success – Domenico had always been more focused on the racing and not the roads – would be even less after his passing.
Still, the Count had – quite rightly – realised that not every Italian could afford to (or would want to) buy exclusive, expensive, multi-cylinder exotica and had persevered with the development of more affordable, smaller capacity singles and twins throughout the 1960s; and
