{"id":133080,"date":"2017-06-21T21:11:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T04:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=133080"},"modified":"2017-06-21T21:12:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T04:12:02","slug":"harley-davidson-enters-race-to-buy-italian-rival-ducati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=133080","title":{"rendered":"Harley-Davidson enters race to buy Italian rival Ducati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson is lining up a takeover bid for Italian rival Ducati, potentially bringing together two of the most famous names in motorcycling in a deal that could be worth up to 1.5 billion euros ($1.67 billion), sources told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Indian motorcycle maker Bajaj Auto and several buyout funds are also preparing bids for Ducati, which is being put up for sale by German carmaker Volkswagen .<\/p>\n<p>A deal with Harley-Davidson would\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/r-harley-davidson-enters-race-to-buy-italian-rival-ducati-sources-2017-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson is lining up a takeover bid for Italian rival Ducati, potentially bringing together two of the most famous names in motorcycling in a deal that could be worth up to 1.5 billion euros ($1.67 billion), sources told Reuters. Indian motorcycle maker Bajaj Auto and several buyout funds are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,8,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-motorcycle","category-roadracing","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133082,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133080\/revisions\/133082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}