As far as bike brands go, I agree it was better KTM bought HusaberG than anyone else.
Say what you want about KTM, love them or hate them, but they design great bikes, not the same boring copy/paste attitude that a lot of the manufacturers have. Still doing active development of twostrokes, in fact they will be releasing all new 200, 250 and 300 engines in their off road line-up.
And as stated, a LOT of HusaberG tech underneath those orange offroad fourstrokes.
Some have said that the 70* engines were a failed experiment, but Husaberg tech takes 2 or 3 years to filter down to the KTM bikes.
-2009 Husaberg has EFI, three years later the KTMs come with the same EFI system.
-The 70* idea was to move the rotating mass of the crank to the centre of the bike, now in the new SXF and XCF engines all crankshafts have been moved up,and gearboxes slightly lower, clearly there was some benefit to be had from the 70* style design.
-Even the all new 125 twostroke engine follows the same principle.
-KTM have also reduced internal rotating masses from counterbalancer and waterpump, which used to be separate, by combining them onto one rotating shaft, which also drives the camchain, keeping the camchain at a shorter length than when run from the crank.
-KTM had change the clutch baskets to steel gear with aly basket during the 2008 to 2012 Fourstrokes, 400/450/530, like the japanese do. They went back to the solid steel clutch basket like the BerG had.
I'm sure if we do some more digging we'll find some more BerG tech in the orange machines...