Yamaha Motor Company

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Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.
Type	Public
Founded	July 1, 1955
Headquarters	Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan
Revenue	12 billion US$ (2005)
Operating income	900 million US$ (2005)
Net income	550 million US$ (2005)
Employees	39,300 (2005)
Website	Yamaha Motor Global

Yamaha Motor Company Limited (ヤマハ発動機株式会社, Yamaha Hatsudōki Kabushiki-gaisha^?) (TYO: 7272 ), a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company (whose HQ is at 2500 Shingai, Iwata, Shizuoka), is part of the Yamaha Corporation. After expanding Yamaha Corporation into the world's biggest piano maker, then Yamaha CEO Genichi Kawakami took Yamaha into the field of motorized vehicles on July 1, 1955. The company's intensive research into metal alloys for use in acoustic pianos had given Yamaha wide knowledge of the making of lightweight, yet sturdy and reliable metal constructions. This knowledge was easily applied to the making of metal frames and motor parts for motorcycles. Yamaha Motor is the world's second largest producer of motorcycles. It also produces many other motorized vehicles such as all-terrain vehicles, boats, snowmobiles, outboard motors, and personal watercraft.

Yamaha Motor Co. is now a separate corporation, no longer a direct subsidiary of the Yamaha Corporation. They still share the same name and the trademark tuning fork logo, however with a small difference in the logotype of their name. The "M" in YaMaha is different - while the Motor Co's M extends all the way down to the baseline, the M of Yamaha Corp. is cropped in the lower middle part. Still, a close tie is kept between the two sister organizations. An example is a Yamaha manufacture plant in Indonesia, which both produce vital engine parts for motorcycles, and all hardware for Yamaha Drums and several of their entry-line drum kits.

In 2000, Toyota and Yamaha Corporation made a capital alliance where Toyota paid Yamaha Corporation 10.5 billion yen for a 5 per cent share in Yamaha Motor Company while Yamaha and Yamaha Motor each bought 500,000 shares of Toyota stock in return.

In 2005, Yamaha came under the investigation of the Japanese government for selling dusting helicopters to China, technology that could potentially be used for weapons.

Contents [hide] 1 Racing Heritage 2 Motorcycle models (Sport Bike/Sport Touring) 3 Underbones and scooters (especially for Southeast Asian market) 4 Cruisers/Customs (Star Motorcycles in the USA) 5 Motorcycles (Racing) 6 Motocross/Enduro 7 Electrical vehicle 7.1 Motorcycles 7.2 Moped 7.3 Cart 7.4 Wheelchair 7.5 Wheelchair upgrade parts 8 Concept/prototype motorcycle 9 ATVs 10 Snowmobiles 10.1 Current Line-up 10.2 Significant Previously Produced Models 11 Snowblowers 12 Remote-controlled helicopters 13 Outboard Motors 14 Kart Engines 14.1 WRseries 4 stroke 14.2 YZseries 2 stroke 14.3 KTseries 2stroke 15 Other Vehicles 16 Water purifier 16.1 Alkalion purifier 16.2 Purifier 17 Business machines 17.1 Robot 17.2 Surface mounter 17.3 Pool 17.4 CNC machine 17.5 Golf car 17.6 Engine 17.7 Underground oil tank 17.8 Oil separator 17.9 Food additive 17.10 Gas heat pump 18 External links 18.1 Official websites 18.2 Related links

[edit] 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 the dakar rally and formula 1.

[edit] Motorcycle models (Sport Bike/Sport Touring)

• Yamaha Chappy
• FZ750
• FZX700/750 Fazer
• FZR
• Yamaha GTS1000A
• FZR600R
• FZR1000
• Yamaha YZF1000R Thunderace
• FZ6
• FZ1
• Jog
• DragStar
• FJR1300
• Morpho I
• MT-01
• Radian
• RX50
• Rz350
• RZ500
• Rd350
• SRX
• SR 250
• SR 500
• SZR 660
• TDM 850
• TDM 900
• TT 500
• Yamaha TTR250
• Yamaha TTR230
• TX 500
• TZR 80 RR
• Virago
• VMax
• Yamaha Venture
• XC125, XC180, and XC200 RIVA Scooter
• XJ 550R Seca
• XJ 600
• Yamaha XJ550 Maxim
• Yamaha XJ650 Maxim
• Yamaha XJ750 Maxim
• XJ 600N
• XJ 600S Diversion / Seca II
• XJ 900
• XJ 900S Diversion
• Yamaha XJ1100 Maxim
• XS 400
• XS 500
• XS 650
• XS 750
• XS Eleven
• XT 350
• XT 600
• XT 125 R
• XT 125 x
• XT 660
• XTZ 660
• XTZ 750
• XV 1600A Wildstar / Road Star
• XZ 550 Vision
• SDR 200
• TZR 250
• TDR 250
• YBR 125
• YZF600R
• YZF750R
• YZF1000R
• YZF-R1
• YZF-R6
• Yamaha FJ1200

[edit] Underbones and scooters (especially for Southeast Asian market)

• Yamaha eGo
• Yamaha Lagenda series
• Yamaha Nouvo
• Yamaha Sirius
• Yamaha Spark
• Yamaha RX-Z
• Yamaha RX-135 (also RX-King)
• Yamaha Y125Z
• Yamaha Y135LC
• Yamaha YP400 Majesty

[edit] Cruisers/Customs (Star Motorcycles in the USA)

In 2005, Yamaha announced the creation of "Star Motorcycles", a new standalone brand name for its cruiser series of motorcycles in the American market. Although a separate brand, Star motorcycles continue to be sold at Yamaha dealerships. In other markets the same bikes will be still sold as Yamahas.

• Stratoliner Midnight
• Stratoliner S
• Stratoliner
• Roadliner Midnight
• Roadliner S
• Roadliner
• Road Star
• Road Star Midnight
• Road Star Midnight Silverado
• Road Star Silverado
• Midnight Warrior
• Warrior
• Royal Star Tour Deluxe
• Royal Star Venture
• V Star 1100 Classic
• V Star 1100 Custom
• V Star 1100 Silverado
• V Star 1300
• V Star 1300 Tourer
• V Star Classic
• V Star Custom
• V Star Silverado
• VMax
• Virago 250

[edit] Motorcycles (Racing)

• Yamaha YZR-M1
• TZ250
• TZ125

[edit] Motocross/Enduro

• AT-1
• IT250H
• Yamaha XT 500
• DT 100/125/175/400
• Yamaha DT200
• TTR 250 RAID
• TTR 50E
• TTR 125/L/LE
• TTR 230
• TTR 250
• TW 125
• TW 200
• TW 225
• YZ 80
• YZ 85
• YZ 125
• YZ 250
• YZ 250F
• YZ 400F
• YZ 426F
• YZ 450F
• WR 250
• WR 450
• XTZ750

[edit] Electrical vehicle

[edit] Motorcycles

• Yamaha Frog
• Yamaha Mest
• Yamaha Eccy
• Yamaha Passol
• Yamaha EC-02
• Yamaha Passol-L

[edit] Moped

• 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 DT 50 R (enduro)
• Yamaha DT 50 X (supermoto)
• Yamaha BW'S
• Yamaha FS1
• Yamaha C3

[edit] Cart

• My Mate

[edit] Wheelchair

• JW Active
• JW-IB

[edit] Wheelchair upgrade parts

• JWX-1
• JW-II
• JW-I

[edit] Concept/prototype motorcycle

• DEINONYCHUS
• FC-me
• Gen-Ryu
• HV-01
• MAXAM 3000
• XT250X
• VOX

[edit] ATVs

• YFZ450
• Raptor 80
• Raptor 350
• Raptor 660
• Raptor 700
• Blaster 200
• Banshee 350
• Warrior 350
• Bruin 350
• Grizzly 600
• Grizzly 660

[edit] Snowmobiles

Yamaha has recently gone to a 100% four-stroke snowmobile line-up, making them the only snowmobile manufacturer to do so. 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 requiment. This sled has since been phased out in favor of the t660 and 660 four stroke engine-equipped models. 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 production four-stroke in production, with 160 HP/L. 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.

[edit] Current Line-up

• Apex
• Attack
• Nytro
• Phazer (4th Generation)
• RS Rage
• RS Vector
• RS Venture
• VK Professional

[edit] Significant Previously Produced Models

• Enticer
• Exciter
• Phazer (1st-3rd Generations)
• Mountain Max
• RX-1
• SnoScoot
• SRV
• SRX
• SRX 440
• SX R
• SX Viper/Venom
• Venture
• VK 540
• VMAX
• VMAX SX
• Vmax
• Vmax-4

[edit] Snowblowers

• YT-600E
• YT-600ED
• YT-660EDJ
• YS-870
• YS-870J
• YS-1070
• YT-1080ED
• YT-1080EX
• YT-1290EX
• YT-1290EXR
• YS-1390A
• YS-1390AR

[edit] Remote-controlled helicopters

• Yamaha R-50
• Yamaha R-MAX

[edit] Outboard Motors

• 4 stroke series
• 4 stroke jet drive series
• 2 stroke V6
• 2 stroke portable / mid range
• Full list

[edit] Kart Engines

[edit] WRseries 4 stroke

• WR250FK

[edit] YZseries 2 stroke

• YZ125K
• YZ85K

[edit] KTseries 2stroke

• KT100SD
• KT100SC
• KT100SEC
• KT100SP
• KT100J
• KT100AX
• KT100A2

[edit] Other Vehicles

Yamaha has also built engines for other manufacturers' vehicles, most notably the V-6 and V-8 engine for the Ford Taurus SHO. The Volvo XC90 uses a larger version of the same Yamaha V-8 engine, as will a future Lincoln automobile. They also built Formula One racing engines from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s, with little on track success. In 1991, Yamaha developed its F1 engined supercar called the OX99-11 where two drivers sit in tandem in front of the engine, but the project was canned due to the world recession and lack of interest.

Yamaha also tunes engines for other manufacturers, Toyota being one of them. Yamaha logos are, for instance, found on the Toyota S engines.[1].

Yamaha developed a prototype for a two-seater sports car with help of Albrecht Goertz. While the Yamaha/Nissan partnership never progressed beyond the prototype stage, Toyota took up the design and released the Toyota 2000GT. [2]

Yamaha is also one of the big 4 companies in the Personal water craft market.

[edit] Water purifier

[edit] Alkalion purifier

• OH-A21N

[edit] Purifier

• OH-U20-SA2
• OH-U20-SB1
• OH-U30-HS
• OH-U30-KA4
• OH-U30-SB3
• OH-U40-KA2
• OH-U40-SB1

[edit] Business machines

[edit] Robot

[edit] Surface mounter

[edit] Pool

[edit] CNC machine

[edit] Golf car

• G31E
• G31AL

[edit] Engine

• MT series (2 stroke)
• MZ series (4 stroke)

[edit] Underground oil tank

• My Tank

[edit] Oil separator

• Pattol series

[edit] Food additive

[edit] Gas heat pump

• M series
• SH series
• 3HP multi
• Living mate
• YCJ series

[edit] External links

[edit] Official websites

• Yamaha Motor Co. ltd - YMC- Japan (Global)
• Yamaha Racing (Global)
• (Japanese) Yamaha Motor Co. ltd - YMC -Japan
• Yamaha Motor Europe N.V. - YME - Europe
• Yamaha Motor Corporation - YMUS - USA

[edit] Related links

• Yamaha Owners Club