[UPDATE February 14, 2025: A spokesperson for Indian Motorcycle responded to RideApart's request for a comment. Here's their full statement.
Indian Motorcycle regularly reviews its portfolio – critically evaluating where to focus investments to have the biggest impact for riders, as well as position the brand for continued growth through the development of products that reflect emerging trends and rider preferences.
After careful consideration, Indian Motorcycle made the decision to discontinue the FTR lineup. The decision aligns with Indian Motorcycle’s long-term vision to focus on models and technologies that represent the future of the brand, as FTR is small part of Indian Motorcycle’s overall portfolio. The decision enables the brand to focus investments on platforms, as well as future products and technologies in the pipeline.
So, it's official, straight from Polaris and Indian Motorcycles to RideApart, and now to you. The FTR lineup is officially discontinued so Indian can focus on its other models.
Get 'em while you still can, FTR fans.]
Original piece follows.
There are no two ways around it: 2024 was a rough year for Polaris.
At the end of January 2025, the company released its official Q4 2024 and full-year 2024 financial report, as well as issued its financial guidance for 2025 based on those results. The numbers weren't great: Q4 2024 sales (in dollars) were down 23% year over year, and full-year 2024 sales were down 20% from those in 2023. And that's across all powersports category types that Polaris currently handles, and isn't specific to its Indian Motorcycle brand.
You're not here for math, though. You're here for news on the status of the Indian FTR 1200, and where it sits in the Indian Motorcycle world in 2025.
Unfortunately, that's also spelled out in the FY 2024 report, and the news isn't good. Taking a look through the report, you'll see the FTR mentioned by name no less than four times. All four instances take place within the text of footnotes—not even in the main content of the financial report itself.
How does it come up? All four footnotes throughout the report refer to adjustments "for corporate restructuring and the wind down of the FTR product line within the Company's On Road segment." That's the specific language that Polaris uses to describe the actions being taken.
RideApart has reached out to Polaris for clarification regarding its future plans for the FTR line, and will be sure to update this piece as and when we have any additional information. But while clarification will of course be nice, it's difficult to see any other way that language choice in the 2024 financial report can be taken.
We will note, however, that as of the time of writing, the FTR line continues to be listed on both US and international Indian Motorcycle websites. Keep in mind that the financial presentation that seems to have spelled impending doom for the line only came out on January 28, 2025. So, it's not dead yet.
So our advice would be that if you've been holding off on picking up the FTR 1200 of your dreams, you'll probably want to make a move on that soon if you can. Obviously, things aren't great for a lot of people right now, so maybe a new bike purchase isn't in the cards.
But if you can, and the FTR speaks your language, you probably don't want to wait too much longer.
