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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.
Yamaha replaced the Grizzly 600 with the new Grizzly 660 using a larger engine that is 660cc derived from the Raptor 660 with a five-valve cylinder head. Beyond the engine, the biggest differences between the Grizzly 600 (offered in the US from 1998 to 2001) and the Grizzly 660 (introduced in 2002), is the rear suspension.
Yamaha was the first to build a production monoshock motocross bike (1975 for 250 and 400, 1976 for 125) and one of the first to have a water-cooled motocross production bike (1977 in works bikes, 1981 in off-the-shelf bikes). Yamaha's first Motocross competition four-stroke bike, the YZ400F, won the 1998 USA outdoor national Championship with ...
The Yamaha Royal Star Venture is a luxury touring motorcycle built by the Yamaha Motor Company. It is a premier touring motorcycle manufactured in two forms by Yamaha from 1983 to 1993 and from 1999 to 2013. In 1983 Yamaha created a V4 engine that debuted in the Yamaha Venture motorcycle series. The first in the series was the Venture Royale ...
Three pickup trucks were sold, including the CXT 4x4 (derived from the 7300), the RXT 4x2 (derived from the 4300) and the MXT 4x4 (a MXT-MV redeveloped for street-legal use). The CXT and RXT are (by far) the largest vehicles ever sold for consumer sale; to date, the former is the tallest ever mass-produced and the latter is the longest pickup ...
As the era of Naked Bikes arrived in the early 1990s, Yamaha was behind the trend and wanted to keep up with their competitors. With the arrival of the Kawasaki Zephyr, Yamaha based their benchmarks on the renowned motorcycle and the result was a 399cc oil-cooled sports naked motorcycle, the XJR400.
The RD400 is a 399 cc (24.3 cu in) two-stroke air cooled six-speed motorcycle produced by Yamaha from 1976 until 1979. It evolved directly from the Yamaha RD350 . The 350 evolved into the RD400C in 1976, the "D", "E" in '77, '78 respectively and the final model, the white 1979 RD400F.
Yamaha produced the enduro DT1 250 in 1968. The motorcycle was embraced and Yamaha learned that, in America riders were interested in motorcycles which could operate off-road, and on road. Yamaha experimented with larger displacement and in 1975 they created the DT400B. The DT400B did not initially sell well, and Yamaha reduced the price.