I like it, so they have one potential sale
The press conference was a hoot. Waku Waku, great idea if perhaps it did lose a little in translation. Their English is way better than my Japanese, so no complaints.
Decent size front mudguard - never did understand the trend to make them as small as possible so you can throw crap on your engine and stones into the radiators/oil coolers (Ducati are you reading this?)
No rear hugger by the look of it - Shame
The "clocks" look good. Clear and well laid out without going full colour and overboard on the display, just because they could.
They kept the "did you know it's cold?" indicator. Always makes me giggle, normally I know it is cold, but I thank the light for telling me, just in case I missed it.
Not sure about the colour schemes, but that is always a matter of personal choice. Need to see them in person to really know.
No mention of the headlight which I'm assuming is LED.
Indicators look to be standard bulbs on the V-Strom and Leds on the XT version
Cornering and weight-sensitive ABS (!).
Cruise on the XT model and hill start which I guess will be a by-product of the revised ABS. Add in a few ones and zeros and, boom, hill start.
No mention if the XT wheels were tubed or tubeless, although looking at the photos again, they look to be tubeless
All of that said, comes down to two questions, How much and what does it ride like?