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Piaggio has a big presence at the EICMA show in its home country of Italy, and the Aprilia division of the conglomerate is unveiling some expected and less expected new models. They include a dirtier Tuareg, a smaller Tuono, and a proliferation of wings.
What Aprilia hasn't told us yet is when these new models will be available in dealers and how much they'll cost in the U.S. market. But here's a first look at some of what's new.
2025 Aprilia Tuareg Rally: Celebrating a victory
Aprilia made a big splash of its performance this year in the Africa Eco Race, which runs on some of the original routes of the Dakar Rally back when it took place in Africa. Italian rider Jacopo Cerutti won the race on a prepped Tuareg 660. Aprilia is leveraging that success and introducing a Rally version of the Tuareg that has a few tweaks intended to provide even better off-road performance.
The differences are mostly subtle, but aimed at tackling difficult terrain. The front fender is now high, dirt-bike style, instead of the low, street-like fender on the regular Tuareg. The Rally is fitted with a sturdier aluminum skidplate, reinforced handguards, and an SC Project exhaust with a titanium muffler.
Changes you can't see include new engine mapping for snappier response. While suspension travel remains the same at 9.5 inches, the springs in the Kayaba fork are stiffer and linear rather than progressive. While Aprilia admits this may reduce comfort, it works better for handling big impacts off-road.
The seat is almost an inch higher and the handlebar is taller, keeping in mind that riders will be standing up more when off-road. Aprilia says the Rally is 11 pounds lighter, at 428 pounds, mostly due to the exhaust and lighter Ergal wheels. Even the colors are copied from the race bike Cerutti rode in Africa. If you're the kind of rider who takes your middleweight adventure-tourer off-road regularly, Aprilia has given you a head start on making many of the changes you'd probably make yourself.
2025 Aprilia Tuono 457: Small, not basic
Probably the most expected new model is also one that will be appreciated by a range of riders, from young motorcyclists moving up to their second bike to experienced riders who just like smaller machines but don't believe that small has to equal unsophisticated. Following last year's introduction of the RS 457, it was surely just a matter of time before we got the same parallel-twin engine in a Tuono package.
The Tuono is clearly aimed at European riders holding an A2 license, because it puts out a peak of 47.6 horsepower at 9,400 rpm, which is the maximum power allowed for holders of those licenses. At a claimed 350.5 pounds, that gives the Tuono 457 the best power-to-weight ratio in the class, according to Aprilia.
What will make the smallest Tuono interesting to both experienced riders who enjoy small bikes, as well as new riders, is the range of features and design touches that project more quality and sophistication than you find on a lot of sub-half-liter motorcycles. Examples include the aluminum frame, LED lights, a five-inch color TFT display, ride-by-wire throttle, traction control, three ride modes, and ABS. A bi-directional quickshifter is among the many available options. Suspension is adjustable for preload both front and rear.
The 457 also has its own style, as the most naked of Tuonos. While the bigger Tuonos offered most of the performance of Aprilia's race-replica sport bikes but with a handlebar and less fairing, more than one armchair critic noted that Tuonos still had a lot of fairing coverage and weren't truly naked. The 457 definitely wears less bodywork and Aprilia took extra effort with the engine, such as eliminating external cooling lines, both to enhance the appearance and to keep the engine as compact and light as possible. The engine is also a stressed member in the frame, with the swingarm attaching to it.
Wings for everybody!
These days, it seems your performance street motorcycle just doesn't have any cred if it lacks wings. How are you going to look like a MotoGP star with unobtrusive, integrated aerodynamic aids instead of a massive mustache? Aprilia has come to your rescue.
The mid-sized RS 660 sport bike earns its wings for 2025 for the first time, while the RSV4 sport bike and Tuono V4 trade in their integrated wings for full-scale downforce generators that look like they were borrowed from the Aprilia RS-GP MotoGP race bikes.
In addition to the redesigned fairing with the new wings, the RS 660 gets launch control added to its suite of electronic rider aids. There's also an RS 660 Factory version for 2025 with fully adjustable Öhlins suspension.
The new wings on the RSV4 look even more like the MotoGP bike's appendages than the ones on the RS 660 and Aprilia claims the new design reduces the aerodynamic drag coefficient by 6%, reduces the tendency to wheelie by 8%, and even keeps heat off the rider. (No word on whether it prevents baldness or helps you lose weight, but we can't have it all, I guess.) With a claimed 220 peak horsepower, the RSV4 is "the world’s most powerful homologated production superbike," Aprilia states. The Tuono V4 is not that far behind at 180 peak horsepower.
Factory versions of the RSV4 and Tuono V4 offer the semi-active Öhlins electronic suspension and a GPS module that allows track riders to adjust settings corner by corner, just as racers do on today's Superbike competition machines.
We expect to see full specs and prices on these new Aprilias closer to the time they arrive in dealers.
