Yes, the 200 Duke now gets the emperor’s old clothes, leaving only the 125 Duke wearing the original small-Duke outfit. And you might even wonder where that leaves the 250 Duke, now that the new 200 duplicates its likeness at a lesser cost, but that’s why I began this story the way I did. In any case, this seems to be a part of KTM’s strategy, periodically launching and alternatingly updating models to keep them relevant. In any case, this leaves us with a 200 Duke that now looks like the 250 and more like the 390, and as you can tell that’s no bad thing at all. That’s because, on the showroom floor, anyone can repeatedly hear the line, ‘It looks the same, so why spend more money?’
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