KTM's financial malfeasance caused ripples across the entire motorcycling industry, affecting both large and small companies, blue and white collar workers, and throughout the racing world. Most of these waves have been bad for those affected, as you see MotoGP teams exiting the sport, small factories lose their sole client, and the workers who strived to build good machines cut loose.
It's been a veritable bloodbath of chaos since the Austrian company filed for insolvency protection, and was subsequently saved from bankruptcy by one of its larger partners, Bajaj. But the doom and gloom of KTM's core orbit hasn't had that effect on one of the brands that escaped its clutches early on in these goings on: MV Agusta.
The Italian marque saw KTM purchase a controlling stake in the company in the middle of last year, only to find itself in the financial pickle it became embroiled in by the end of the year. As such, MV Agusta's control was sold back to the Saradov family, which took it into quiet mode following the return. Not much has come out of MV since, other than it was moving its design headquarters to Varese.
