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  • Yamaha Motor's First Grand Gold Prize at IDEA, Global Top Three Design Award 　- MOTOROiD's Second Honor After Red Dot Award -

    IWATA, September 20, 2018 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced today that its MOTOROiD has received the ultimate "Gold" honor at the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition in the U.S., one of the most prestigious global design awards. The MOTOROiD concept model attracted much attention when exhibited at the likes of the 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017 and CES(Consumer Electronics Sh

  • Announcement of Personnel Changes

    IWATA, September 14, 2018 – Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel changes, effective September 15, 2018.

    ■　Change in duties of General Manager
    （Name） （New position） （Current position） Mitsuru Hashimoto General Manager of Business Management Division, Corporate Planning & Finance Center Yamaha Motor

  • Yamaha Motor Announces Collaboration with AI Computing Company NVIDIA　Accelerating Automation of Driverless Agricultural Vehicles and Low-speed Vehicles with AI

    IWATA, September 13, 2018 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced today that it has formed a collaboration to apply intelligent technology to products in research and development/R&D module groups with AI computing, NVIDIA (Headquarters: California, U.S.A.)
    Through this collaboration, Yamaha Motor is adopting NVIDIA’s GPU computing system* , Jetson AGX Xavier. Jetson AGX Xavier, which is the

  • Yamaha Motor and Gogoro Begin EV Business Collaborative Study

    Iwata and Taipei, September 11, 2018 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan, President: Yoshihiro Hidaka) and Gogoro Inc. (Headquarters: Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Founder and CEO: Horace Luke) announced today that they have begun a study towards collaboration in the electric vehicle (EV) business in the Taiwan market.
    This collaboration relates to Gogoro’s development a

  • AMA Motocross Competitor Yusuke Watanabe to Return to All Japan Motocross Championship at MFJGP

    September 10, 2018—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is proud to announce that Yusuke Watanabe, who this season contested the AMA 250cc Motocross Championship in the United States, will race at Round 9 (MFJGP) of the All Japan Motocross Championship to be held at Sportsland SUGO in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on October 28, 2018. He will ride for the 3D Racing team aboard a YZ250F in the IA2 class.
    Watanab

  • Riders from Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan Selected for Sixth Yamaha VR46 Master Camp

    September 6, 2018—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is proud to announce that the Yamaha VR46 Master Camp, a training programme in cooperation with Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy to discover and develop young riding talent, will be held between September 12 and 16 of this year.
    The sixth edition of the Camp will feature riders from Asia, with two from Malaysia and one each from Indonesia and J

  • Yamaha Motor Invests in Bioventure Firm Evec, Inc.　- Promoting Strategic Partnering in the Biomedical Field -

    IWATA, August 31, 2018 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced today that, aiming to acquire a deeper level of knowledge and upgrade product development capabilities in the ever-growing biomedical research field, the Company has decided to invest in bioventure firm Evec, Inc.
    Evec has strengths in the manufacturing and sale of “SEED antibodies,” which are essential in drug discovery, testing

  • Aaron Plessinger Makes it Two for 2018 with AMA Motocross 250MX Title Win

    August 21, 2018—On August 18, 2018, At Round 11 of the AMA Motocross Championship, held at Budds Creek, Maryland, U.S.A., the Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star/Yamaha Racing Team’s Aaron Plessinger, who competed in this season’s 250MX class on the YZ250F, clinched his first-ever AMA Motocross championship one round before the final round of the season. This win brings him up to two titles for 2018, a

  • Yamaha’s Flagship Superbike　Yamaha Motor Newsletter (August 10, 2018 No. 66)

    Yamaha’s YZF-R1 flagship motorcycle has continued to set trends in the 1,000cc supersport category through advanced ideas and cutting-edge technologies since its introduction in 1998. Although the bike has not been drastically changed in 2018, the now highly developed 8th-generation R1 continues to notch up wins at racetracks across the globe.
    In Japan and in the U.K., special events f

  • New Organizational Reforms and Personnel Changes at Yamaha Motor

    IWATA, August 10, 2018 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. has resolved to implement the following organizational reforms and personnel changes, effective August 15, 2018.
    ■Organizational reforms
    1.　 Solution Business Operations
    In order to strengthen procurement functions and improve market competitiveness, procurement work which had been handled by the Procurement Group of the Produ

  • Anupab Sarmoon to Deputise for Keisuke Maeda at Rounds 7 and 8 of All Japan JSB1000 Championship

    August 9, 2018—Yamalube Racing Team rider Keisuke Maeda, who competes in the premier JSB1000 class of the All Japan Road Race Championship, will withdraw from Round 6 (August 18–19 at Twin Ring Motegi), Round 7 (September 1–2 at the Autopolis International Racing Course) and Round 8 (September 29–30 at Okayama International Circuit) of the series due to injury. In line with this, Thai rider Anu

  • Yamaha Motor earnings continue to rise in second quarter　- Strong growth in net sales of major product categories -

    IWATA, August 8, 2018 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announces consolidated business results for the first half.
    Net sales for Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.'s consolidated accounting period for the first half of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018 were 851.3 billion yen, an increase of 23.3 billion yen (2.8%) compared with the same period the previous fiscal year. Operating income wa

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