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Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. (KHI) (川崎重工業株式会社, Kawasaki Jūkōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese public multinational corporation manufacturer of motorcycles, engines, heavy equipment, aerospace and defense equipment, rolling stock and ships, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Kawasaki's first title was with Dave Simmonds in 1969 when they won the 125 cc World Championship. Kawasaki dominated the 250 cc and 350 cc grand prix classes from 1978 to 1982 winning four titles in each category. With the introduction of the four-stroke engines into MotoGP in 2002, Kawasaki decided to take part in the new MotoGP World ...
Kawasaki conceived the KR-1 to tap the incredibly competitive quarter-liter two-stroke market; the most important JDM motorcycle class in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Kawasaki was the first of the Japanese 'big four' to cease production of its road-going 250 two-stroke, when it closed manufacturing the KR-1 in 1992.
Kawasaki already had the largest-displacement Japanese machine with their 650 cc four-stroke W series, [1] but it did not fit the niche Kawasaki was aiming for. Honda had introduced its Honda CB450 in 1965 and in 1969, the Suzuki T500 Titan/Cobra appeared. Also in development was the Yamaha XS 650.
Kawasaki GPZ900R with Ninja script on fairing. The Kawasaki Ninja is a name given to several series of Kawasaki sport bikes that started with the 1984 GPZ900R. Kawasaki Heavy Industries trademarked a version of the word Ninja in the form of a wordmark, a stylised script, for use on "motorcycles and spare parts thereof".
The Kawasaki MULE (Multi-Use Light Equipment) is a series of lightweight Utility Task Vehicle that have been built by Kawasaki since 1988. Initially available with a 454 cc (27.70 cu in) twin-cylinder engine in the original MULE 1000 model, the range has grown and been gradually updated over the years, and now includes both petrol and diesel variants.
The Kawasaki W1 is based heavily on the post-war, pre-unit construction, 500cc vertical-twin BSA A7 design inherited from Meguro, but as time passed, the Kawasaki and BSA designs diverged. [14] The BSA engine has a 70 mm (2.8 in) bore and 84 mm (3.3 in) stroke , whereas the W1 inherited its 72.6 mm (2.86 in) stroke from the K2 engine, adding ...
In 1999, superseding the Zephyr series, Kawasaki introduced the W650, resembling British motorcycles of the early 1960s, notably the Triumph Bonneville. [3] The engines of the British motorcycles used pushrods , but the W650 has an overhead camshaft , driven by bevel gears , in the same way as 1970s Ducati singles and V-twins . [ 5 ]