The adult public’s taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.
Raymond Loewy’s MAYA design principle, “Most Advanced Yet Acceptable”, helps to explain the Ducati 999’s market failure.
Read about Pierre Terblanche’s successor to the 916 in Tim Poupore’s “What killed the 999?” from the May 2011 issue of Cycle Canada.