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  • Announcement of Personnel Changes

    IWATA, June 14, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel changes, effective June 15, 2017.
    Abbreviations; ・CS = Customer Service・SCM = Supply Chain Management

  • Michael van der Mark to Replace Kohta Nozane for Round 5 of the All Japan JSB1000 Championship

    YART Yamaha Official EWC Team rider Kohta Nozane will participate in Round 4 of the Endurance World Championship (EWC) at the Slovakia Ring on June 23–24, continuing his role as a member of the YART Team. As this falls on the same race weekend of Round 5 of the All Japan Road Race Championship, Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team rider Michael van der Mark will replace Nozane as the rider of the YA

  • Yamaha Motor to Launch Star Venture Cruiser in North America - All-new power, technology and comfort features will redefine luxury-touring motorcycle market -

    IWATA, June 7, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) announced today its all-new flagship cruiser-class model, the Star Venture, powered by a 1,854cm3 air-cooled V-twin engine, which will launch in North America this August.
    The Star Venture is designed to satisfy the increasing demand for long-distance touring models that combine comfort, riding enjoyment and reliability. The standard Sta

  • Yamaha Motor to Launch New High-end Hybrid AOI System - YSi-V 12M TypeHS2 Increases Inspection Speed and Precision, and Enhances Capacity and Performance for Specular Components -

    IWATA, June 1, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) announced today that it will launch the YSi-V 12M TypeHS2 high-end hybrid automated optical inspection (AOI) system from August 1. As the successor to the YSi-V 12M TypeHS, this new very high-speed specification model features increased speed and precision, as well as enhanced specular component inspection capacity/performance.
    Developme

  • Two Factory Yamaha Teams Aim for Third Straight Win at the 40th “Coca-Cola” Suzuka 8 Hours

    Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is excited to announce that two Yamaha factory teams will enter this year’s 40th “Coca-Cola” Suzuka 8 Hours Endurance Road Race. The Yamaha Factory Racing Team will return to challenge for their third consecutive Suzuka victory alongside full-time Endurance World Championship (EWC) challengers, the factory-supported YART Yamaha Official EWC Team. The legendary event is the f

  • Yamaha Motor Captures Sixth Straight India Design Marks With Cygnus Ray ZR Scooter and YZF-R3 Sports Model

    IWATA, May 26, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that the Cygnus Ray ZR scooter and the YZF-R3 sports model - sold for the young male demographic by Yamaha Motor's India subsidiary, India Yamaha Motor Private Limited (IYM) - have been awarded the India Design Mark (I Mark)* sponsored by The India Design Council. These honors mark the sixth year in a row - every year since

  • Yamaha Hit 500th Grand Prix Racing Victory Milestone

    Yamaha is proud to celebrate a momentous landmark in its successful motorcycle racing history, having secured its 500th Grand Prix win at the Grand Prix of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
    Yamaha is proud to celebrate a momentous landmark in its successful motorcycle racing history, having secured its 500th race win at the Le Mans Bugatti Grand Prix race circuit in France.
    The Yamaha Factory R

  • Yamaha Industrial Robots -Yamaha Motor Monthly Newsletter(May.15, 2017 No.53)-

    Yamaha Industrial RobotsLeading Factory Automation with Creative Ideas and Technology
    The level of attention focused on robots and robotics has been growing around the world in recent years. Today, we see robots designed in the likeness of humans or animals that we can converse with, that can bring us drinks or even play games with us. Then there are robots like drones that survey or obser

  • Consolidated Business Results Summary - First Quarter of Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2017 -

    IWATA, May 12, 2017-Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) announces consolidated business results for the first quarter.Net sales for Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.'s consolidated accounting period for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2017 were 386.0 billion yen, (an increase of 3.1 billion yen or 0.8% compared with the same period the previous fiscal year), and operating income was

  • Yamaha Motor to Provide Engineer for Seabed Exploration Race - Will join Japanese team competing in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE -

    IWATA, May 10, 2017 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that it has sent an engineer to "Team KUROSHIO"- a collaboration team bringing together Japanese industry, academia, and government - which is taking on the challenge of the "Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE" 4,000m deep-seabed exploration race. To provide the best possible support for the team, Yamaha Motor conducted an open i

  • Young Rider Talent Globally Selected for Yamaha VR46 Master Camp

    Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is proud to announce the six riders chosen for the first of two Yamaha VR46 Master Camp events to be held in 2017. The riders will take part in the third edition of the Master Camp rider training and development programme, run in cooperation with Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy.
    The eligible area for nominees for the highly-coveted spots on this year’s roster was e

  • Yamaha Motor and YAMABIKO to Develop and Sell Agricultural Drones by 2018

    Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter, Yamaha Motor) and YAMABIKO CORPORATION (hereinafter, YAMABIKO) have agreed to form an alliance regarding the joint development and commercialization for agricultural chemical spraying systems using multi-rotor drones.
    Yamaha Motor, which manufactures and sells unmanned helicopters for spraying agricultural chemicals, and YAMABIKO, which manufactures a compre

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