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Going by Satyen's logic, you need to subtract the cost of Duke 200's tyres as well.

2.5L sounds good for D390. But what about the upkeep cost? Ninja 250 is easy to buy but wayyy too expensive to maintain (16k for chainset and damn expensive break pads) . I Hope the spares for D390 are as cheap as D200.

Going by Satyen's logic, you need to subtract the cost of Duke 200's tyres as well.

You forgot Metzeler Tyres -> +15k (From the discussion earlier in the thread)

So does this make it 175k (Satyenology price) + 15k (ABS) + 15k (Stickier tyres) = 205k ??

If the bold part is your argument, then it doesn't stand in the way of people buying Duke 390. Nobody is going to check if Duke 200 is value for money or not while buying Duke 390. They will check what's competition has got to offer in that range i.e. for a 40+ bhp, 400cc bike. I would like it if Duke 390 is priced at 1.5 lakhs, heck, I would jump from Mount Everest for it @ 1 lakh or less, or i'll go for a joel tuned P200NS. I hope you got the drift! In short people are going to buy Duke 390, because they want to ride a 40+ bhp bike, not because Duke 200 is value for money or not. These are most probably the people who has had enough of 25 bhp bikes, they want something bigger, better.

And I can't understand how one can say that a 2.5 lakhs price is a good price.
Sure, if there's no Duke 200 and its 1.5 lakhs price then you could say that. But if 2.5 lakhs for Duke 390 is a good price then 1.5 lakhs for Duke 200 super mega good price!

Pricing Duke 390 at 2.5 lakhs will definitely put it out of reach of many people. Be it 44 horses or even if it were 64 horses, have ABS or not, Metzlers or MRF - the price will simply be too high for many prospective buyers and KTM won't sell that many units in India.
Actually, it'll only make Duke 200 even better value for money, and push sales of Duke 200 up.
Overseas it'll be a completely opposite story because of very small price difference between 200 and 390.

I think that Pulsar 375 has much more to do with pricing of Duke 390 than prices of any new parts on Duke 390 (which, come on, from manufacturing point of view, isn't much different from Duke 200).

2.5 lakhs for Duke 390 will just make me buy Kiirus or Race Dynamics pimped up ECU for my Duke 200 for 10/15k Rs and enjoy 28 hp instead of stock 25.
It's 16 hp less than 390, little less grippier tires (those MRFs on Duke are quite good btw, I don't know what some here are saying against them!), lack of ABS (which I anyway prefer not to use) with everything else the same as 390.

I'm not saying 390 isn't worth 2.5 lakhs, I'm saying 200 is much better value for money. Which is very obvious if you know that Duke 200 is priced at 3.5 - 3.8 lakhs overseas...

@splus, you can refer @kochumvk's post above where we both agree that it helps cut down on the number of cheapskates and morons who buy the bike. It was not a question of "Money vs Responsibility" but rather, keeping a significant number of illiterate morons out of the equation. Hope we both stand clarified now

And yes, not to forget - whatever price it gets launched for, it will definitely find takers, just for the displacement and power output figures.