Sorry to rain on your parade guys but this isn't a new bike from Honda.
I'm still fairly up on the Honda's after a couple of years as Mod on the CBR300 site.
This isn't the first time this bike has caused confusion to be fair, not helped by those BS Indian websites reporting crap like this all the time.
The bike is a run of the mill boring old CBR500R (released in 2103 then given a facelift last year) that was sleeved down to 399cc for the Japanese domestic market.
It's something to do with coming in under some 400cc insurance or registration threshold or something like that.
So, the 500R's biggest down fall is it's 428lb (194kg) curb weight while only putting out 47HP. So you can imagine what reducing it's capacity to 399cc does for it! Same porky weight with even less power. The N400 would absolutely walk all over it in a roll on comp. :biggrin:
I doubt this bike is even going to be released in India. Here's an article from a similar style Indian website from
5 years ago claiming the same...
Honda developing CBR400R for India - Overdrive