The BMW R1300RS ASA departs – but it hasn’t been a total love-in

Phenomenally fast, impossibly complicated and bloody pricey, have the latest high-end superbikes completely jumped the shark? Or can today’s litre bikes still relate to regular road riders?

They may have been updated for 2026 but these used options are just as good...

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IT’S BARELY TWO months since I was gushing over Mazda’s bone-stock 1.6-litre heritage fleet car on these pages, so the idea of replacing that engine with a 3.0-litre V6 (of more than twice the power!)

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