Displacement About Yamaha
Yamaha Motor Company Limited (ヤマハ発動機株式会社 Yamaha Hatsudōki Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 7272), a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company (whose HQ is at 2500 Shingai, Iwata, Shizuoka), is part of the Yamaha Corporation. After expanding Yamaha Corporation into the world's biggest piano maker, then Yamaha CEO Genichi Kawakami took Yamaha into the field of motorized vehicles on July 1, 1955. The company's intensive research into metal alloys for use in acoustic pianos had given Yamaha wide knowledge of the making of lightweight, yet sturdy and reliable metal constructions. This knowledge was easily applied to the making of metal frames and motor parts for motorcycles. Yamaha Motor is the world's second largest producer of motorcycles. It also produces many other motorized vehicles such as all-terrain vehicles, boats, snowmobiles, outboard motors, and personal watercraft.
Yamaha Motor Co. is now a separate corporation, no longer a direct subsidiary of the Yamaha Corporation. They still share the same name and the trademark tuning fork logo, however with a small difference in the logotype of their name. The "M" in YaMaha is different - while the Motor Co's M extends all the way down to the baseline, the M of Yamaha Corp. is cropped in the lower middle part. Still, a close tie is kept between the two sister organizations. An example is a Yamaha manufacture plant in Indonesia, which both produce vital engine parts for motorcycles, and all hardware for Yamaha Drums and several of their entry-line drum kits.
In 2000, Toyota and Yamaha Corporation made a capital alliance where Toyota paid Yamaha Corporation 10.5 billion yen for a 5 per cent share in Yamaha Motor Company while Yamaha and Yamaha Motor each bought 500,000 shares of Toyota stock in return.
Racing Heritage
Yamaha has a long racing heritage where it has had its machines and team win many different competitions in many different areas, for example both road and off road racing, also Yamaha has had great success with riders such as Bob Hannah, Heikki Mikkola, Kenny Roberts, Chad Reed, Stefan Merriman and the latest, Valentino Rossi. Yamaha is known to those who are older in age as the designer of the modern motocross bike, as they were the first to build a production mono-shock motocross bike and one of the first to have a water-cooled motocross production bike (1981, but 1977 in works bikes).
Motorcycle models
Yamaha has made an extensive number of two- and four-stroke scooters, on-road and off-road motorcycles. The Yamaha XS 650, introduced in 1970, was such an overwhelming success that it crippled the British monopoly of vertical twin motorcycles.
Electrical vehicles
Motorcycles
- Yamaha Alba
- Yamaha Frog
- Yamaha Libero
- Yamaha Gladiator
- Yamaha Mest
- Yamaha Eccy
- Yamaha Passol
- Yamaha EC-02
- Yamaha Passol-L
Mopeds
- Yamaha PAS (Nickel metal hydride battery)
- PAS Lithium (Lithium ion battery)
- PAS Business (Ni-Cd battery)
- Yamaha YQ50 Aerox R
- Yamaha Jog
- Yamaha Jog R
- Yamaha Neo's
- Yamaha BW'S
- Yamaha FS1 (Yamaha FS1E)
- Yamaha Lagend
- Yamaha DT50
- Yamaha TZR
Carts
- My Mate
Wheelchairs
- JW Active
- JW-IB
Wheelchair upgrade parts
- JWX-1
- JW-II
- JW-I
All-Terrain Vehicles
- BW80 / 200 / 350
- YFZ450
- Raptor 80 / 350 / 660 / 700
- Blaster 200
- Banshee 350
- Warrior 350
- Bruin 350
- Grizzly 600 / 660
- Big Bear 400
- Wolverine 350 / 450
- Tri-Z 250
