2007 Husqvarna

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Big things are brewing in Europe. The union between countries called the European union are just small fish compared to what might happen in the motorcycling industry. KTM has been married to Polaris industries from the USA for a while. We hear of a possible separation where custody of the children are being discussed now. By June next year KTM could find itself a new partner. After Piaggio relaunched Aprilia and then launched a extensive offroad programme to threaten KTM's dominance in the offroad sector, another potential partnership have risen from the dark forests of Germany. We spotted BMW-Motorrad's Dr. Herbert Diess in close conversation with the flamboyant head of Italian beauty MV Agusta at the EICMA show in Milan last Autumn. It seems that Claudio Castiglioni and Dr. Herbert Diess had plenty to talk about. When asked for a picture the two influential characters split up straight away. Dr. Diess told me that he was afraid there could be speculations. This is the story of the beauty and the beast retold and now we have to mention this encounter in this setting. Could it really be that the maker of big and brute Boxer's fancies its chances with the petite and beautiful Husqvarna? We bet, and if not we're sure Polaris wouldn't mind a flirt after the KTM cool-down. More on this story as it develops. We have arranged interviews with all involved parties. Watch this space!

2008 Husqvarna STR 650 CRC

MV Agusta owned Husqvarna showed off its latest Tamburini design in the Husqvarna Super motard. STR 650 CRC the bike is called. We heard news of this bike earlier in the spring, but the bike was still at the concept stages at that point. The STR is a street motard, and the SM series will still take care of business on the race track. The STR is a thing of beauty, even though Tamburini’s talents might not show through as well on such a simple thing as a supermotard. We hope it makes it to production.

SM 450R

SM 450RR

SM 510R

SM 125

SM 610ie

TE 610ie

WRE 125