These are your words. NOT MINE. I've responded to your post without twisting plain text or backstepping. Why can you not do the same? Stand by what you said in post #2 and defend why you are correct in your assumptions.
Until then, accept that you were incorrect.
I didn't know you were talking about MotoGP! You need to be extremely specific in your reposes when two different subjects are intermixed in a post.
Ok… so MotoGP?
Ducati are starting from scratch as of 2015. What I've heard is that their new bike will share nothing with it's prior generations. Another rumor is that they'll be ditching desmodromics in order to make the heads shorter and get the motor pushed further forward in the chassis.
Aprilia are going to be starting from scratch with a release of 2016, they too are doing an all-new bike, literally from the ground up, sharing nothing with the current generation. I haven't heard any rumors about the design, but the key with BOTH Ducati and Aprilia is that, they'll be starting from square one.
KTM will be producing a bike in 2016 and develop it all year before entering MotoGP. So they'll already have a year of development under their belt before joining the series in 2017, kind of like Suzuki is doing right now and I assume Aprilia will be in 2015.
The way I see it, all three of these manufacturers will be on very even footing development wise by the end of 2017. Yes, Ducati will have an upper hand because they always have a strong motor and have been developing race-winning bikes in MotoGP for years. However, KTM has been the king of chassis in everything they've developed. Building a killer motor will be their only real issue in my book and I have a feeling they'll do very well.
The big question is, will any of these bikes be able to match the might of Yamaha and Honda? We wait to see how much the new rules slow them down. Until then, it's all supposition which is what this thread is!!! None of it's fact, it's just rumors and hearsay. So don't get angry, it's just an opinion and there is plenty of data to back it up, especially the discussion on sport bikes not advancing.