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The Yamaha Blaster is a compact all-terrain vehicle produced as an entry-level machine manufactured in Japan and sold in the United States from 1988 to 2006. Because of the Blaster's initial low price tag, it sold in large numbers for many years from its inception in 1988 all the way to present day.
Ford and Yamaha also developed the Zetec-SE branded 4-cylinder engines used in several Ford cars like the small sports car Ford Puma. From 2005 to 2010, Yamaha produced a 4.4 Litre V8 for Volvo . The B8444S engines were used in the XC90 and S80 models, whilst also adapted to 5.0L configuration for Volvo's foray into the V8 Supercars with the S60 .
The Yamaha OX99-11 V12 was a sports car project designed by Yamaha's subsidiary Ypsilon Technology and IAD that was supposed to enter production in 1994. External links [ edit ]
1995 Yamaha changed the color to red. 1996 Yamaha added dual 38mm Mikuni carburetors and 62T cases to the WaveBlaster, resulting in slightly more power, from 63 to 73 hp. This model was discontinued in 1996. 1997 through 1998 Yamaha changed the color scheme to blue and white and renamed the machine to WaveBlaster Limited (not available in USA).
It was used as a stationary engine, for boats and in the Daimler Stahlradwagen ("steel-wheeled car"), Daimler's second car. [1] The engine was also manufactured under licence in France by Panhard et Levassor. [2] An early V-twin engined motorcycle was produced in November 1902 by the Princeps AutoCar Company in the United Kingdom. [3]
The Ford Super High Output (SHO) V8 engine was designed and built by Ford Motor Company in conjunction with Yamaha Motor Corporation for use in the 1996 Ford Taurus SHO. It was based on the successful Ford Duratec engine rather than its predecessor, the compact Ford SHO V6 engine developed by Yamaha for the 1989 Taurus SHO. The engine was ...
The car's original engine was an air-cooled flat-eight engine made by using a giubo to join the crankshafts of two Volkswagen flat-four engines laid end-to-end. [86] The car's open-topped barquette-style body is said to have been made from either a modified Lorena GT body or a mold taken of a Lorena GT owned by the Oliveiras. [86]
Cars often looked radically different from the production models. Challenges included; converting a Toyota into a lawnmower, a Lotus into a hovercraft, and an ice cream van into a riot truck. In one episode, the team sold the internal fittings of the car that was to be transformed (A Rolls-Royce) to raise funds to convert it into a muck spreader.