Many say so. I don't think so. The first bike I ever rode was a Gladius 650 with a V-twin, sounds heavy as much as the bike. With all the bikes going V-twin or parallel 270 this at least sounds different.
SC project probably. Since I read SC. It's very short, not homologated ans probably for euro 4 models with only one lambda sensor. Mine has 2 sensors and is Euro 5.