Some time ago we witnessed the questionable treatment administrated to the beautiful Ducati 1199 Panigale at the time of his landing in Japan, when the strict local regulations regarding noise pollution forced the Italian manufacturer to spoil the clean silhouette of its new superbike by replacing the two low mufflers underneath the engine with a long silencer on the side.
That, to put it mildly, was pretty detrimental to the elegant and refined aesthetics of the model.
Moreover, in order to contain the massive ‘roar’ of its newest and sharpest weapon, Ducati also had to make some adjustments to the clutch, but apparently the Japanese standards for noise emissions have just claimed another illustrious victim : the equally regal MV Agusta F3 675.
In fact, as confirmed by these images just appeared on the Japanese official website of the Italian brand, in the land of the Rising Sun the sinuous lines of the F3 will indeed be spoiled by a recklessly generous and almost unwatchable lateral silencer, thereby ruining one of its most distinctive elements.
MV Agusta’s Japanese site doesn’t mention any other changes to the original model, which would have us assuming that the addition of that terrible and overlong exhaust may have been enough to get the final approval from the Japanese authorities, but in any case we just cannot help but express our disappointment for the final outcome, yet another crime against Italian design genius.
Of course, that configuration is a visually similar to that used by the ParkinGO team in the World Supersport Championship, but we really doubt you’ll get the same sort of performance enhancement with this one, so…