It has been eight years since KTM's parent company, Pierer Industrie AG, bought HUSQVARNA from BMW and built the Svartpilen/Vitpilen 401 as a sister model to the Duke 390. Perhaps many fans think that HUSQVARNA is the time to make a good makeover of "Black Arrow" and "White Arrow", and it seems that husqVARNA original factory really thinks so - because after the test car spy photos of KTM's 390 Duke, the new 390c .c. off-road model have flowed out, a test car shaped like Svartpilen 401 has also been witnessed on the streets of Europe!
As the same parent company as KTM, Svarpilen/Vitpilen 401 has continued to use the same group's 390 Duke engine, frame, WP APEX suspension, BYBRE braking system and other equipment since its inception, and this logic is believed to not change in the next generation - because as long as you look at the shape of the test car in the photo, you can find the geometry of the steel pipe frame and the shape of the swingarm, and the KTM 390 Duke test car that appeared two years ago. The E-Pilen pure electric concept car that debuted last year and the new KTM 390 off-road test vehicle that just appeared not long ago are quite similar.
Suspected test car of the new HUSQVARNA Svartpilen 401.
The KTM 390 Duke test car that was witnessed in 2019.
The new off-road test vehicle of the KTM 390 was recently witnessed.
HUSQVARNA E-Pilen concept car.
In addition to the newly designed steel pipe frame, the test car is obviously different from the current Svartpilen 401, as well as the fuel tank and exhaust pipe shape - compared with the current model, the fuel tank of this concept car, although the basic shape is similar to the current model, the lines become bolder, changing the oval part of the current model to an irregular rounded corner shape, creating a more aggressive temperament. At the same time, the exhaust pipe has also been changed from the side row of the current model to a cleaner, fully exposed bottom row design of the rear wheel, and the overall outline is quite similar to the E-Pilen, so it can be speculated that this may be a common design element of the next-generation HUSQVARNA "Pilen" series.
Today, the next generation of KTM 390 Duke, 390 Adventure R (tentative prediction name) test car, as well as the husqVARNA Svartpilen test car that shares the same platform, the E-Pilen concept car have all appeared, and the next generation of 390 Duke test car has been unveiled for two years, and the official launch of E-Pilen is even more certain. Perhaps the large-scale redesign plan of light-end vehicles under the PIERER Industrie AG Group has been brewing for a long time, and we will see these models and pure electric models using the same platform in the near future, and it is possible to attack the market in a short period of time with car sea tactics.
The KTM and HUSQVARNA pure tram models that have been flowing out a few days ago have been released on schedule.