The Ducati Superquadro engine is a 90°

V-twin A V-twin engine, also called a V2 engine, is a two-cylinder piston engine where the cylinders share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration. Although widely associated with motorcycles (installed either transversely or longit ...

four-stroke A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft. A stroke refers to the full travel of the piston along the cylinder, in either directio ...

motorcycle engine made by

Ducati Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. () is the motorcycle-manufacturing division of Italian company Ducati, headquartered in Bologna, Italy. The company is directly owned by Italian automotive manufacturer Lamborghini, whose German parent company is Au ...

since 2011. It has Ducati's signature desmodromic valve system, with four valves per cylinder and gear/chain driven double overhead camshafts. It has been made in four displacements ranging from , with power as high as in the largest version. The Superquadro engine was first used in the 1199 Panigale of 2011, with a bore and stroke of . This was followed in 2013 by a smaller , version, used in the 899 Panigale. The successor models, the 1299 Panigale of 2015 and the 959 Panigale of 2016, had the same stroke, and bores of either , giving displacements of , and the . Unlike the belt-driven overhead cams of earlier Ducati engines the Superquadro's uses gears and a chain. As with most Ducatis, the engine is a stressed member, making the bike smaller and lighter than a conventionally framed motorcycle. The engines are of aluminum with Cermetal bore plating, a hardening process developed by the Italian company Tecnol which is similar to Nikasil. A 1299 version of the engine has been made for the 2017 Ducati 1299 Superleggera model. 'Ducati 1299 Superleggera 215hp Carbon everything' ''Motorcycle News'' November 8, 2016, by Syed Zeeshan Ali Naqvi
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