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Little did they know... but the tone of the article is one that kinda says they wouldn't really have been overly surprised, if they could have seen the future.
But they must have rubber-stamped the engine performance specs from the earlier models, the power peak was most certainly not 10,500 rpm by that point or the factory redline on the tach was lying. CB350K3 tach shows a redline of 9200.
Still, very cool to look back and see how the industry felt about them then. Good stuff, and thanks to @2BrokeBikes for the quality scan.