Ducati is celebrating its 100th anniversary by launching a $2,000 Nespresso machine — and it's even stranger than it sounds

Ducati Barista M3 1926 Limited Edition Carbon Fiber coffee maker.

• Ducati's new coffee maker celebrates "100 years of Italian engineering"
• The machine takes Nespresso pods, and is made by a Swiss company
• It's available to pre-order now for about $2,000 / £1,500 / AU$2,800

To mark its 100th anniversary, motorcycle brand Ducati has launched a premium espresso machine bedecked with dials and badges. At first glance it's a fun novelty, but one that makes sense — Italy is the home of espresso, after all — but the closer you look, the stranger it gets.