October 12, 2020—Yamaha Motor Europe is delighted to confirm that the reigning FIM Supersport World Champion Andrea Locatelli will join Toprak Razgatlıoğlu at the Pata Yamaha WorldSBK Official Team for the 2021 FIM Superbike World Championship campaign. With Garrett Gerloff remaining at the GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Junior Team for 2021, where he will be joined by Japanese ace Kohta Nozane, it means
October 12, 2020—On October 10, 2020, at Round 9, the final round of the AMA Motocross Championship held at Fox Raceway in Pala, California, the Monster Energy/Star/Yamaha Racing team’s Dylan Ferrandis, who competed in this season’s 250MX class on the YZ250F, took 2nd/5th for 3rd overall in the event to win his first ever AMA Motocross championship title. It was his second title of the year aft
IWATA, October 8, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Europe N.V. (hereinafter “YMENV”), a subsidiary of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) that sells products in Europe, began consultations with the European Works Council (EWC) concerning its intent to transfer all issued shares of Motori Minarelli S.P.A. (hereinafter “MM”), a YMENV group company manufacturing motorcycle engines in Italy, to Fantic Motor S.
IWATA, September 30, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that its electric personal mobility concept model TRITOWN has been given the title “Winner” in the Excellent Product Design category of the “German Design Award 2021.” This is the first time that TRITOWN has won a design award.
TRITOWN is a compact electric two-front-wheeled stand-up riding mobility style unit
September 27, 2020 –Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has signed a one-year renewal agreement with Grand Prix racing legend Valentino Rossi. Fans all over the world will be delighted to know that the nine-time World Champion will be participating in the 2021 MotoGP World Championship as a fully supported Factory Yamaha rider for the PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team.
Due to
IWATA, September 14, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel change, effective September 15, 2020
Personnel Changes in General Managers
(Name)
(New position)
(Current position)
MATSUMOTO,
Kazuyuki
General Manager of Production
Control Division, Manufacturing
Strategy Section, Manu
IWATA, September 4, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) announced today that it will launch the Wolverine RMAX-1000 in North American markets from September. The unit features both two and four-up versions equipped with a 1000cc engine - a first in the company’s recreational category of its key ROV (Recreational Off-highway Vehicles) product range in the RV1 business segment. Manufactur
IWATA, August 26, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) announced today that Siam Yamaha Motor Robotics Co., Ltd. (SYMR), a joint-venture company in which subsidiary Thai Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is a part owner, will launch a pesticide spraying service in Thailand using Yamaha Motor’s FAZER R industrial unmanned helicopter, on August 2020.
SYMR will deploy the
FAZER R to deliver spr
IWATA, August 7, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel change, effective August 15, 2020
Personnel Changes in Group Companies
(Name)
(New position)
(Current position)
AJIMA,
Yuhichi
Managing Director of Yamaha Motor
Electronics India Private Limited
Yamaha Motor Electronics India
P
IWATA, August 6，2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) hereby announces that, at the Board of Directors meeting on August 6, 2020, the Company has determined to revise the forecast consolidated business results for the fiscal year ending December 2020, which was undecided at the announcement on April 24, 2020, and to revise the forecast for the end-of-term dividends announced on May 29, 20
IWATA, August 6, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announces consolidated business results for the second quarter. Net sales for Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.'s consolidated accounting period for the first six months of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020 were 685.5 billion yen (a decrease of 170.4 billion yen or 19.9% compared with the same period the previous fiscal year). Operating
IWATA, July 31, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) will start evaluation trials of its new integrated electric propulsion unit and steering control system HARMO at Hokkaido based Otaru Canal Cruise from August 7.
HARMO is a "next-generation control system platform" consisting of a propulsion unit powered by an electric motor, a remote-control box, and a joystick that enables more
IWATA, July 27, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced that the vehicle performance vibration damper - Yamaha Performance Damper -has been adopted for use in "LEXUS LC500 Convertible" models (released from July 15), and 2021 model year of "LEXUS LC500" (released from June 18)
The Yamaha Performance Damper will be installed in LEXUS models IS350/300, RC350/300, GS350（2WD)/300
IWATA, July 14, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) has resolved to implement the following organizational reforms and personnel changes, effective Wednesday, July 15, 2020.
■ Organizational Reforms
1. Corporate Planning & Finance Center
The Corporate Planning & Finance Center will be reorganized for the purpose of concentrating management resources on st
June 23, 2020—On June 21, 2020 at the final round of the AMA 250SX West Championship held in Salt Lake City, Utah, Monster Energy/Star/Yamaha Racing’s Dylan Ferrandis finished 4th aboard his #1 plated YZ250F to clinch the 2020 championship for back-to-back titles. With Aaron Plessinger’s 2018 championship win, this marked a third consecutive title for Yamaha in the class.
The AMA Supercro
IWATA, June 5, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel change, effective June 15, 2020
1. Change in duties of Executive Officers
(Name)
(New position)
(Current position)
USUI, Hirofumi
Senior Executive Officer,
Chief General Manager of Marine Business Operations,
and Senior General Manager
IWATA, May 29, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announces consolidated business results for the first quarter.
Net sales for Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.'s consolidated cumulative period for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020 were 395.9 billion yen, (a decrease of 33.5 billion yen or 7.8% compared with the same period the previous fiscal year), and operating
IWATA, May 29, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272), by a resolution of its Board of Directors on May 29, 2020, has decided to cancel dividends from surplus at the end of the second quarter (June 30, 2020). Yamaha Motor will therefore make a new announcement when making projections become possible for forecast dividends from surplus for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020.
Around the world today, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has drastically affected people’s lives and brought illness and even death to countless victims. To stem the spread of the disease, numerous countries have asked or required people to stay home and avoid going out as much as possible.
However, this unprecedented restriction of people’s freedom to go about their daily lives can defi
IWATA, May 26, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo:7272) announced today that it will release the LCMR200, a new linear conveyor module on July 1. The structure of the current model LCM-X has undergone a major review in order to further improve ease of use.
The
LCMR200 inherits features from the current LCM-X model such as high accuracy and narrow pitch, but now with greatly improved r
