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, Wayne Rainey, 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 (1975 for 250 and 400, 1976 for 125) and one of the first to have a water-cooled motocross production bike (1981, but 1977 in works bikes).
Since 1962 ,Yamaha produced production road racing grand prix motorcycles that any licensed road racer could purchase. In 1970, Non-factory "privateer" teams dominated the 250cc World Championship with Great Britain’s Rodney Gould winning the title on a Yamaha TD2.
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.
MotorcyclesYamaha Alba
Yamaha Frog
Yamaha Libero
Yamaha Gladiator
Yamaha Mest
Yamaha Eccy
Yamaha Passol
Yamaha EC-02
Yamaha Passol-L
Yamaha Yz85
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
Yamaha QT50
Golf carts
Yamaha G1
Yamaha Drive
Personal Watercraft
WaveRunner
Wheelchairs
JW Active
JW-IB
Nesquick sponsored Race chair
Wheelchair upgrade partsJWX-1
JW-II
JW-I
Wetard chair 85
All-Terrain Vehicles
BW80 / 200 / 350
YFZ450
Raptor 80 / 350 / 660 / 700
Blaster 200
Banshee 350
Warrior 350
Bruin 350
Kodiak 400 / 450
Grizzly 80 / 125 / 350 / 400 / 450 / 600 / 660 / 700
Big Bear 400
Wolverine 350 / 450
Tri-Z 250
SnowmobilesYamaha has recently claimed a 100% four-stroke snowmobile line-up, making them the only snowmobile manufacturer to do so. In Canada though, there are still three models that Yamaha manufactures that are still 2 stroke. They are the Bravo, VK 540 and the Venture XL. Yamaha had introduced four-strokes to their line-up in 2003 and the line-up became four-stroke based for model year 2005. Many say that Yamaha has proven snowmobiles can be clean, efficient, and reliable all while maintaining strong performance. The RX-1 released in 2003 was the first performance-oriented four-stroke snowmobile to ever hit the market. It was not, however, the first modern four-stroke snowmobile produced. That honor belongs to Arctic Cat for their Yellowstone Special, released in 2000, which was designed as a rental sled that could meet Yellowstone National Park's stringent emission requirement. However, the Yamaha received much criticism for its weight disadvantage when compared to similar two-strokes, despite its excellent fuel economy and low-range torque. Yamaha is now on the cutting edge of four-stroke technology with the introducing of their 80FI engine which is equipped on the Phazer and Venture Lite models. This engine has one of the highest specific output of any four-stroke in production, with 160 HP/L, Yamaha achieves this even without the use of a forced induction system. Yamaha is also a key player in the "four-stroke wars", which are a series of advertisements from opponent Ski-Doo who claim their 2-tec and power-tek equipped two-strokes are still cleaner and more efficient than four-strokes, while Yamaha still claims the four-strokes are cleaner. Yamaha also broke a multi-year absence from sno-cross in the winter of 2006-07 with their introduction of a factory race team headed by former Arctic Cat racer Robbie Malinoski.
Current line-upBravo
Apex
Attack
Nytro
FX Nytro
Phazer (4th Generation)
RS Rage
RS Vector
RS Venture
VK Professional
Significant previously produced models
Bravo
coRy
Enticer
Exciter
Phazer (1st-3rd Generations)
Mountain Max
RX-1
SnoScoot
Sno Sport
SRV 540
Brand loyalty
