
Of course, the counterpoint to all that darkness is a smattering of chrome. The flat black allows light to wrap around the bike’s curves, showing off its sultry lines. The Dark Horse doesn’t come with just any old black paint.

The 2016 Chieftain Dark Horse merges the past and the present by wrapping the classic lines of the Chieftain in a thoroughly modern blacked-out style. However, the Indian brand has grown to include more modern motorcycles, like the Scout and the Scout Sixty, preparing the public for Indian to be a manufacturer with a clear vision of its past while still looking towards the future. The styling was clearly inspired by Indians of the past, but great pains were taken to make the Chieftain a modern motorcycle through the inclusion of modern technology.


In 2014 Indian released the Chieftain, and at that stage of Polaris’ reclaiming of the Indian brand, the focus was still very much on the heritage of the name.
