Triumph Bonneville T40 in Meridien Blue/Tangerine.

The baby Bonnie T40 comes in four colours, this Meridien blue/Tangerine

Fusion White/Phantom Black,

Triumph Bonneville T40 in Aegean Blue/Fusion White..

Aegean Blue/Fusion White, and

This smokey Bonneville Black

There's a lower-spec, India-specific Triumph Bonneville T4. This is available in this Carnival Red

Triumph Bonneville T4 in Competition Green.

Competition Green, and

Phantom Black

Close up of the right sidepanel of the Triumph Bonneville T40 Black, spelling out the name.

Typical for a Bonnie, there's plenty of intricate, hand finished details. This sidepanel is exclusive to, you guessed it, the Bonneville T40 Black. The regular Bonneville T40 and the Bonneville T4 get their own sidepanels, of course.

Close up of the Triumph Bonneville T40 Black's dark brown seat.

Contrasting the T40 Black's otherwise blacked out body is the brown seat. Also seen is the Bonnie-exclusive twin-shock; well, one of the two anyway.

Close up of the Triumph Bonneville T40 Black's blacked out front wheel.

The T40 Black alone gets these black rims, with tubed tyres. Triumph takes the 'heritage' part very seriously, you see!

Close up of the Triumph Bonneville T40's silver-colours front wheel.

Here's what the Bonneville T40's and the Bonneville T4's rims look like; of course, with tubed tyres.

Triumph Bonneville T40's new 4-inch TFT display.

Also brand-new is this 4-inch colour TFT display that enables many connectivity features – like the pictured media control – among others like navigation and switching between the five ride modes. The Bonneville T4 gets a similar 4-inch display but it's an LCD unit. It also loses out some of the electronic rider aids to meet the lower price.

Triumph Bonneville T40/Bonneville T4's 349cc engine.

Powering the baby Bonnie – all three of them – is this 349cc engine making 29hp and 32Nm. Sounds pretty similar to the Speed T4 but the engines are not similar at all, says Triumph. Can you spot the rear master cylinder in this picture?

Triumph Bonneville T40/Bonneville T4 Image Gallery

Triumph has now launched the Bonneville T40, which underneath the appealing classical design, is somewhat amalgamation of its siblings, and is unique in some ways too. Powering the India-spec Bonneville T40 is the same 350cc single-cylinder liquid-cooled engine, but it makes 29hp at 7,000rpm and 31.2Nm of torque at 5,500rpm – numbers that are incidentally very similar to the Speed T4.

In typical Bonneville fashion, the T40 runs on wire-spoke wheels shod with tubed MRF tyres developed specifically for it – no tubeless option here. The front tyre is sized 100/90-18, while the rear is a 150/70-R18 hoop. The result of the chassis changes is that the Bonneville T40 weighs 195kg, the heaviest of the Bajaj-built Triumph models. Having said that, at 14.5 litres, it also has the largest fuel tank capacity. With a friendly 790mm seat height, the T40 is quite accessible in terms of ground reach, with a healthy 165mm of ground clearance. Where the T40 goes one step further is that it debuts a new round 4-inch colour TFT display. This is to control the different riding aids such as five riding modes, ABS, traction control and cruise control. This display even has a ‘Heritage’ mode. If you pair your phone to the display, you can also get navigation information on the screen.

At Rs 2.80 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi), the Bonneville T40 (and T40 Black) is priced at a premium compared to its direct rivals. In fact, at this price, the Bonneville T40 also costs more than the base variant of the newly launched Honda CB500. There’s also a lower-spec (only for the Indian market) Bonneville T4, which has a colour LCD display with turn-by-turn navigation, ride modes and dual-channel ABS but misses out on cruise control and the inertial measurement unit (IMU). The T4 Bonneville is priced at Rs 2.55 lakh.

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