I wasn't around to hear it running, but I gotta say I was still pretty impressed. There's nothing at all that shouts "cheapo starter bike" about it. In fact, at first I'd thought it might be some new flavor of the 650, until I noticed just the single downpipe and looked closer.
Honestly, nursing along an old Iron Barrel 500 these past few years in the 50s or very occasional 60s, an honest sustained 70 mph for that occasional forced highway use (I usually avoid the bigger ones if I can) from a 350 sounds pretty good to me. Yeah, I could happily tour on one of those Meteors.