Will we ever see a modern Indian Four

There's the Chief, the Scout, the new Powerplus engine... Names for which Indian was famous for. But maybe the most famous of them all, was the Indian Four. It was a luxury touring bike with a very smooth engine and decent power.So, I feel like such a bike would fit very well in the modern Indian lineup. What better way to present a powerful inline four engine, that stays in line with the brands history and tradition, which is what such brands are all about...An obvious difference to modern bikes is that the original was a longitudinally mounted four. Something that is not common nowadays, but a very key feature of the Four. But not unheard of, for example the Triumph Rocket 3 uses this layout (with just 3 cylinders). Another would be the BMW "flying bricks", the K-line since the 80's and to mid-2000's (K75 triple, K100 four...), which were brilliant bikes but their styling got outdated very fast. The length of such a layout is no problem for a cruiser, and it also allows for easy use of a shaft final drive, which is just perfect for touring machines. A modern four would of course be water cooled, no way to make an air cooled four in this configuration nowadays...Seems like there's a good market for such touring bikes too. While "just" a four, since it is an American brand, it should go for large capacity (heck, the Rocket has a huge capacity and it's just a triple) to compete with bikes like the Goldwing or the BMW K1600. Basically, at that capacity the engine would be like a fairly normal inline four 1.6-2.0 car engine - reliable, loads of torque and power for a bike... Not so much a traditional motorcycle inline four engine (low torque, high revving, high power...). But still, in terms of performance, at such capacity and twice the cylinders, it should be on a completely different performance level than the modern Indian Chief or the big Harleys (Electra Glide...).So what do you think? Is it likely Indian will eventually do something like this? I think it would be very cool if they resurrected it. The Indian Four is legendary, and I think V twins just don't cut it for a lot of people nowadays. But I can't really think of a really cool cruiser that would have an inline four engine, most just go for classic V twins. Transverse fours just don't look good this way, but the longitudinal layout is great for it. Looking at that photo, the engine could be a stressed member of the frame, that way they could still keep it reasonably short and compact. via /r/motorcycles https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/dv7jix/will_we_ever_see_a_modern_indian_four/?utm_source=ifttt