India’s most loved sportsbike is about to get bigger, racier and better than ever before. It’s still some months from production ready, with Bajaj presently focussing on introducing the exciting KTM 390 Duke, but it's known that the team at ‘**Ahead’ (Bajaj R&D) is working to ready a neatly faired-in, approximately 375cc all-new Pulsar that will debut across India towards the end of this year.

The big, new and faired-in Pulsar shall aim to be a bold new segment driver when it hits Indian roads, by offering biking enthusiasts here a level of style and performance never previously available with any Pulsar. The new Bajaj flagship is styled to draw eyeballs, its mean Yamaha YZF-R1-resembling dual-headlights peering out in the set of detailed frontal images available with us and our own exclusive rendering. Clip-on handlebars will be standard, as will be plenty of lightweight alloy parts, and expect a sporty, compact cockpit layout, with comprehensive, nicely laid out instruments and Bajaj-typical good quality switchgear. The new Pulsar will make a purposeful and mean-looking sportsbike, as can be seen in its tastefully sculpted tank and body cowls, as well as split seats.

Earlier last-month we had reported that Bajaj Auto may come up with a new Pulsar series bike as a counterpart of upcoming KTM 390. Recently the Managing Director of Bajaj Auto, Mr. Rajiv Bajaj has announced that the Indian motorcycle maker will launch all new Pulsar in 2013, we speculate it to be Bajaj Pulsar 375 cc.

Once launched, the Bajaj Pulsar 375 will be the most powerful Pulsar ever built and also be the company’s newest flagship offering. It will share design cues with the 200NS and will also follow the same mechanism. The speculations surrounding the KTM Duke 390 suggest that the motorcycle will be a 375cc single-cylinder liquid-cooled 4-valve engine and feeding it will be an advanced fuel injection system delivering close to 45 Bhp of peak power. As the KTM Duke 200 and Pulsar 200NS have nearly similar power and torque outputs, the same might hold true of the Duke 390 and the Pulsar 375 as well.