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  • Yamaha Motor to Release Two New YZF-R1 Supersport Models in Europe and U.S. ~YZF-R1 & YZF-R1M share lineage with MotoGP machines

    IWATA, November 4, 2014 – Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today the planned release of two new supersport flagship models, the YZF-R1 and its high-end counterpart YZF-R1M, first in Europe in early March 2015 and then in North America. Both models feature an entirely new 998cm3 liquid-cooled, in-line four-cylinder engine with crossplane crankshaft.
    The all-new 2015 YZF-R1 and YZF-

  • Yamaha Motor to Start Publishing News from Mynewsdesk

    Dear Journalists, Yamaha Motor will be delivering its releases and newest updates using 'Mynewsdesk'
    to communicate more effectively and efficiently with you.  http://www.mynewsdesk.com/yamaha-motor From now on, all our releases will be available on this website, together with a bunch
    of high-resolution photos pertaining to the release.
    Hopefully more high quality imagery (stills an

  • Promoting Safety Awareness (YRA)

    Yamaha has long worked in a variety of ways to instruct customers in the proper use of our products. These activities are now a part of the Yamaha Riding Academy (YRA) program run all over the world today for a wide range of product categories. In this issue, we focus on the motorcycle category as we introduce Yamaha’s efforts past and present to promote safety awareness.