Curious as to why they started @1000cc.
Intelligent business strategy. Don't shoot your big ticket players down by offering a smaller, lower-priced version of the already planned bigger one, because you will lose sales. Put out the big one first, capturing every impulse driven sale there is to get. Then to create another sales wave, size it down, less fancy and lower the price accordingly to attract the "I really wanted the 1000, but I'm willing to spend (or the Boss will let me spend) the lower price for a 750 version. You will even up-sell some buyers who waited for the smaller version, but then decided that they would be willing to upgrade to the larger version because they found the package more desirable. It's a win all the way around deal.
It's a very good solid business strategy. I'd bet my M.B.A. on it.
Then if it pans out well, of which I know it will, then they should continue the long standing Moto Guzzi tradition of creating a very limited production, (V7 SPORT, LE MANS, DAYTONA RS, V-10 CENTAURO, MGS-01) "type of" motorcycle with all the razors edge tidbits they can throw at it, just like Ducati, or MV Agusta, and charge whatever they need to make a good profit on it, say $29,999 - $39,999 for it. They don't have to build a world-class super bike, nor be judged in that light because that's not this platform.
What they need to build is the slickest, trickiest, "Oh my God, just look at it!", Moto Guzzi sporting motorcycle that has ever come out of Mandello del Lario. Top Shelf All The Way...Limit it to no more than 100 units worldwide.
I believe that they will sell them all, no problem, because they will be highly coveted by the true aficionados.
I sure hope so.
Altri cent'anni, Moto Guzzi !
PS: The new V100 Mandello is the very essence of the above idea. Look carefully at it. There is absolutely nothing on it that you can find on any other Moto Guzzi motorcycle ever made. Engine, driveline, suspension, brakes, controls, fluid reservoirs, exhaust, intake, lighting, turn signals, literally everything, yet it is a direct-descendent of every Moto Guzzi motorcycle I have owned and the 4 I own right now. The most amazing thing about Carcano's design, is that all 4 of my bikes, are 90 degree V-twins, built in the same factory, yet they are all unique. Each engine has a very distinctive sound, power band, handling, vibration, dare I say...soul.
The V100 Mandello doesn't excite me because it the fastest, or blah blah blah. It excites me because I have loved this marque my whole life like no other, and the V100 is the slickest, trickiest, "Oh my God, just look at it" mass production motorcycle I've ever seen from Mandello del Lario, and I want one.