2006 MV Agusta F4CC #76/100

MV Agusta’s modern rebirth was already a Tamburini sculpture story — the F4 as proof the nameplate could return as more than nostalgia. The F4CC is the chapter where product planning stops pretending to be democratic. Unveiled around the 2006 EICMA cycle and named for Claudio Castiglioni, then guiding the marque, the bike was framed in contemporary press as a personal machine first: a limited run, a platinum-numbered plate, and a delivery ritual that included a matching Girard-Perregaux watch and Trussardi jacket. New Atlas and other launch coverage put the production figure at 100 and the price in the €100,000 class. That is not a color option. That is a scarcity contract.

Technically, period reporting places the CC above the ordinary F4R brief. The engine story is race-department adjacent: a 1,078 cc evolution with lightened internals, titanium valves, larger throttle bodies, variable-length stacks, and a titanium exhaust path in the performance kit narrative, with factory claims around 200 CV and a tire-limited top speed near 315 km/h (195 mph). Weight language in the same era pushed the bike toward the lightest end of the F4 family short of the early Oro mythology. Magnesium and carbon show up repeatedly in factory-adjacent descriptions — not as dealer stickers, but as the point of the exercise.

Why it counts as rare when a clean later F4 does not: the hundred. Homologation-adjacent superbikes and numbered Italian flagships are exactly the motorcycles Rare Machines covers. Why the score sits in the high 70s rather than the 90s: chassis-specific period race history is not the claim here, and this example’s extras (signatures, show shirts, concours letters) must stay on the “seller states” side of the ledger until a buyer verifies them. The model is rare. The storytelling around this bike still needs paper.

Rare Machines covers cars and motorcycles side by side: the F4CC, a factory hundred from 2006, belongs in the same company as the one-off 1952 Lazzarino. Different centuries, same kind of rarity.

Provenance timeline (public / model-level)

• 2006 (EICMA cycle) — F4CC unveiled; contemporary press cites 100-unit production, Castiglioni naming, delivery kit (watch + jacket), extreme materials brief.
• Model years mid-2000s — Series built and distributed globally; US allocation described in specialist coverage as a small slice of the hundred.
• This chassis (#76) — VIN publicly listed as ZCGAKFPR16V000076; offered 2026 on Iconic Motorbike Auctions with low four-digit miles showing and reserve reported met.
• 2026-09-11 2:00 pm PDT — Iconic auction ended; sold (total $78,217 incl. buyer fee; reserve met).