MV Agusta ready with Street Triple rivalling B3 Brutale

Triumph might be ready with a new-look Street Triple, but MV Agusta will be hoping to lodge a big question mark in buyers’ minds when it goes semi-public with its own 675cc naked next week.

The B3 ‘baby’ Brutale will, like the Triumph, be powered by a 675cc, three-cylinder motor, but is widely expected to beat it for claimed power. The 2012 model, penned by Fabia Orlandi with input from Claudio Castiglioni, will be be revealed to dealers next week at a proposed price likely £500 north of Triumph’s Street Triple R.

The image accompanying this story is a good phtoshop stab by French mag Moto Revue.