Royal Enfield Hunter 350 New Vs Old: Differences Explained
Lot of comfort-oriented and feature differences in the mid and top-end variants, but the base version remains unchanged
Royal Enfield recently launched the 2025 Hunter 350 in India at a starting price of Rs 1,49,900 (ex-showroom Delhi). The motorcycle gets a number of new changes like a LED headlight, new colours, among others. Let's find out how different it is compared to the older version.
Design
Royal Enfield has kept the design of the Hunter 350 unchanged for 2025. The motorcycle retains its retro modern design with its metal tank, fibre body panels and the blacked out engine, fork and alloy wheels, making it look quite attractive. The new Hunter 350 gets three new paint schemes: Rio White, London Red and Tokyo Black.
The old color schemes like the Dapper Ash and the Dapper White have been replaced by Rio White, whereas the Rebel Red and Rebel Black have been replaced by the London Red and Tokyo Black. While the new colours look a bit fresher than the old ones, we feel the older Rebel Red looked better than the new London Red. The base spoke wheel variant with Factory Black paint scheme remains unchanged.
Engine
The Hunter 350 uses the same 349cc single-cylinder engine but now with OBD-2B compliance and the power and torque figures remain unchanged (20PS, 27Nm. As a new addition, the mid and top-end variants of the motorcycle now get a slip-and-assist clutch for smoother and safer down shifts, and also for easier clutch lever action. This engine has been praised for its character and refinement.
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For 2025 the Hunter 350 gets a revised handlebar position, more comfortable seat cushioning and a new tune for the rear twin shock absorbers. All of these have been designed to make the Hunter 350 more comfortable to ride. The ground clearance is now 160mm, which is 10mm more than before thanks to the revised rear suspension. Other than these new changes, the Hunter 350 remains the same. It uses the same double cradle frame as before along with 17-inch wheels at both ends. A 300mm front and 270mm rear disc brake setup with dual-channel ABS is standard for the mid and top-end variants.
The base variant with spoke wheels and a front disc (rear drum) with single-channel ABS remains the same as before despite now being referred to as the “2025” model. The base variant gets slightly slimmer tyres with spoke wheels while the mid and top variant get wider 110 section front and a 140 section rear tyre with alloy wheels
Features
The Hunter 350 now gets a LED headlight, whereas it used to have a halogen setup. It also gets a faster USB type-C charging port for charging your mobile phone. Both of these features are exclusive only to the mid and top-spec variants. Royal Enfield has made the tripper navigation a standard feature from the mid Dapper variant. It supports smartphone connectivity with turn-by-turn navigation and SMS/call alerts.
Price & Verdict:
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Hunter 350 Variants |
New Price |
Old Price |
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Base (Factory Black) |
Rs 1,49,900 |
Rs 1,49,900 |
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Mid (Rio White and Dapper Grey) |
Rs 1,76,750 |
Rs 1,69,656 |
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Top (Rebel Blue, London Red, Tokyo Black) |
Rs 1,81,750 |
Rs 1,74,655 |
All prices ex-showroom Chennai.
The pricing for the Base variant remains unchanged while the mid and top variant are now more expensive by around Rs 7,100. The premium is justifiable considering the fact that the 2025 version comes with not one but several updates to ensure a better overall riding experience. Are the comfort-oriented updates actually helpful in the real world? That’s something we’ll have to see once we get a chance to ride the motorcycle.
Even though Royal Enfield has kept the base variant untouched, it’s still impressive that the pricing has also remained unchanged, right from the time it was launched, which was in August 2022.
Royal Enfield Hunter 350 User Reviews
My first preference is short height bike because it's easy to handle it plus maintenance was so reliable. As per compare to the other with the same segment Hunter is far better then others. I really love to ride royal enfield bikes. For the city riding you love it like handling was very amazing plus throttle response is very amazing. For the lobby route you can adjust your seat or add some cusion over the seat or buy the new seat. For the city purpose you can buy this bike only. As I have a classic 350 and metor. l really like to ride hunter only because that machine is more powerfull as compared to other RE machine like the engine sound and silencer sound without changing any parts it shows the old version one. Read More
Very comfortable bike for daily riding and long trips. Seat comfort is excellent, riding position is relaxed and city traffic me handle karna easy hai. Engine smooth aur refined hai. Build quality, fit and finish premium feel dete hain. Overall performance, mileage, comfort aur looks ke hisab se Hunter 350 is a great value for money motorcycle.Read More
I'm really enjoying this bike and very much value for money, my suggestion for everyone, who're purchasing new bike, is that you must try this bike, it is very nuch good in all aspects and I think it's value for money. I'm really exctided and enjoying the ride of my new bike, It's really smooth and low maintenance cost will love to share much more memories of it, but as I have already ridden 5000 km plus so I can be pretty sure. yes, I would definitely recommend this to everyone, just have a ride and decide to buy, get a good ride try few bike and I'm sure you will find this value for money and feel preety happy with this decision.Read More
Run smoothly in highway and sound also coming good after all is good for riding and comfortable for body posture no back pain after ride and seats are comfortable to ride long route feel like nothing but enjoying ride and it was good. Comfortable for long ride and mileage is also good for comparing any motorcycle and no back pain after travelling long route ride any type of rout it's satisfied and speed was also too awesome like super bike. If your are think for this is to great for your wallet happy no for any issues was turn day by day it's was very good price for investment for your lifestyle price was to satisfied for thinking for this type of motorcycle. Read More
Cheap and best in category. Colour is good, service is good, company is good, good torque, great in mileage. People trust says it all. Go and take a test drive so that you get clarity why this is best. Bike is good. Mileage is 27. Seat is not comfortable. Sometime under 20 speed automatically switches off. I have get it done 3 times for this yet issue is not resolved. After speed of 80 it accelerates slowly. Reaching 110 speed is tough, after that is does not move much further. Yes for sure. Its good to start. If you have not ride a heavy bike before, this is best to start with. In this price range, there are many bikes but the royal enfield fails all companies. Service is also good.Read More