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Giancarlo Castiglioni, founder of the Italian motorcycle company Cagiva and former head of manufacturer MV Agusta, died at the age of 80.
The entrepreneur, who at the side of his brother Claudio, shaped the Italian motorcycle industry with ideas and visions for decades, succumbed to a tumor. Castiglioni helped the Italian motorcycle industry to play a major role by buying and redeveloping renowned brands such as MV Augusta, Ducati and Husqvarna. He owes the world motorcycle classics like the Ducati 916 and the Ducati Monster as well as the MV Agusta F4 and MV Agusta Brutale. Current models in which Castiglioni was personally involved are the MV Augusta F3 and the Brutale 675.
In 1978 Castiglioni and his younger brother Claudio founded their first motorcycle brand in Varese, 50 kilometers north of Milan. It carried on the name of the father's company for small metal parts: Cagiva, an abbreviation for CAstiglioni GIovanni VArese. Initially, the brothers only built small-displacement motorcycles, but in 1983 they signed an agreement with Ducati for the supply of medium and large-volume engines. 1985 Castiglionis took over Ducati completely and turned the company inside out. Claudio Castiglioni's son Giovanni led MV Agusta until 2019 after the death of his father in 2011. The group was then taken over by the Russian entrepreneur Timur Sardarow.
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The entrepreneur, who at the side of his brother Claudio, shaped the Italian motorcycle industry with ideas and visions for decades, succumbed to a tumor. Castiglioni helped the Italian motorcycle industry to play a major role by buying and redeveloping renowned brands such as MV Augusta, Ducati and Husqvarna. He owes the world motorcycle classics like the Ducati 916 and the Ducati Monster as well as the MV Agusta F4 and MV Agusta Brutale. Current models in which Castiglioni was personally involved are the MV Augusta F3 and the Brutale 675.
In 1978 Castiglioni and his younger brother Claudio founded their first motorcycle brand in Varese, 50 kilometers north of Milan. It carried on the name of the father's company for small metal parts: Cagiva, an abbreviation for CAstiglioni GIovanni VArese. Initially, the brothers only built small-displacement motorcycles, but in 1983 they signed an agreement with Ducati for the supply of medium and large-volume engines. 1985 Castiglionis took over Ducati completely and turned the company inside out. Claudio Castiglioni's son Giovanni led MV Agusta until 2019 after the death of his father in 2011. The group was then taken over by the Russian entrepreneur Timur Sardarow.
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