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Yamaha Motor: First Grand Prize for MOTOROiD at Global Design Awards Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2018

IWATA, Monday, October 1, 2018—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced today that its MOTOROiD - which has attracted much attention when exhibited at various events including the 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017 - has received the Luminary award, the ultimate honor at the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2018. This selection represents a first-ever for a Japanese company to receive this award.
The Luminary awa

Yamaha Factory Racing Team to Enter Round 9 of the 2018 All Japan Road Race Championship Series, the 50th MFJGP, with Special-Color YZF-R1 20th Anniversary Livery

Yamaha Factory Racing Team to Enter Round 9 of the 2018 All Japan Road Race Championship Series, the 50th MFJGP, with Special-Color YZF-R1 20th Anniversary Livery

September 29, 2018—The Yamaha Factory Racing Team will enter Round 9 of the 2018 All Japan Road Race Championship, the 50th MFJGP at Suzuka Circuit in Mie Prefecture on November 3–4 with riders Katsuyuki Nakasuga and Kohta Nozane riding machines sporting special red and white coloring commemorating the YZF-R1’s 20th anniversary.
The Yamaha Factory Racing Team has competed the 2018 All Japa

&Y03 eMotion Tracks

Yamaha Motor and Yamaha Corp. Host Joint Design Event　 Première of &Y03 Music Device Made of Vehicle Parts　 Based on the Theme of “Tracks,” the “Ideal Time and Setting” as Conceptualized by the Two Companies Together　

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (hereafter “Yamaha Motor”) and Yamaha Corporation (hereafter “Yamaha”) and announce that they will be holding the joint design event "Yamaha Design Exhibition 2018 – Tracks" at Roppongi Hills O-YANE PLAZA from Friday, October 12 to Sunday, October 14, 2018.
As companies that share the “Yamaha” brand, Yamaha Motor and Yamaha have collaborated on a variety of projects b

Katsuyuki Nakasuga to Make Wild Card Entry at the Grand Prix of Japan Aboard a Special Red and White YZR-M1

Katsuyuki Nakasuga to Make Wild Card Entry at the Grand Prix of Japan Aboard a Special Red and White YZR-M1

September 20, 2018—Katsuyuki Nakasuga will make a wild card entry in the Motul Grand Prix of Japan, Round 16 of the 2018 FIM MotoGP World Championship. He will ride a YZR-M1 with the same special anniversary red and white colors that the YZF-R1 sported at the Suzuka 8 Hours this year. He will ride for the Yamalube Yamaha Factory Racing team in the race at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Tochigi

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Yamaha Motor's First Grand Gold Prize at IDEA, Global Top Three Design Award 　- MOTOROiD's Second Honor After Red Dot Award -

IWATA, September 20, 2018 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced today that its MOTOROiD has received the ultimate "Gold" honor at the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition in the U.S., one of the most prestigious global design awards. The MOTOROiD concept model attracted much attention when exhibited at the likes of the 45th Tokyo Motor Show 2017 and CES(Consumer Electronics Sh

Announcement of Personnel Changes

IWATA, September 14, 2018 – Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel changes, effective September 15, 2018.

■　Change in duties of General Manager
（Name） （New position） （Current position） Mitsuru Hashimoto General Manager of Business Management Division, Corporate Planning & Finance Center Yamaha Motor

Yamaha Motor Announces Collaboration with AI Computing Company NVIDIA　Accelerating Automation of Driverless Agricultural Vehicles and Low-speed Vehicles with AI

IWATA, September 13, 2018 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced today that it has formed a collaboration to apply intelligent technology to products in research and development/R&D module groups with AI computing, NVIDIA (Headquarters: California, U.S.A.)
Through this collaboration, Yamaha Motor is adopting NVIDIA’s GPU computing system* , Jetson AGX Xavier. Jetson AGX Xavier, which is the

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Yamaha Motor and Gogoro Begin EV Business Collaborative Study

Iwata and Taipei, September 11, 2018 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan, President: Yoshihiro Hidaka) and Gogoro Inc. (Headquarters: Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Founder and CEO: Horace Luke) announced today that they have begun a study towards collaboration in the electric vehicle (EV) business in the Taiwan market.
This collaboration relates to Gogoro’s development a

AMA Motocross Competitor Yusuke Watanabe to Return to All Japan Motocross Championship at MFJGP

AMA Motocross Competitor Yusuke Watanabe to Return to All Japan Motocross Championship at MFJGP

September 10, 2018—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is proud to announce that Yusuke Watanabe, who this season contested the AMA 250cc Motocross Championship in the United States, will race at Round 9 (MFJGP) of the All Japan Motocross Championship to be held at Sportsland SUGO in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan on October 28, 2018. He will ride for the 3D Racing team aboard a YZ250F in the IA2 class.
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Riders from Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan Selected for Sixth Yamaha VR46 Master Camp

September 6, 2018—Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. is proud to announce that the Yamaha VR46 Master Camp, a training programme in cooperation with Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy to discover and develop young riding talent, will be held between September 12 and 16 of this year.
The sixth edition of the Camp will feature riders from Asia, with two from Malaysia and one each from Indonesia and J

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Yamaha Motor Invests in Bioventure Firm Evec, Inc.　- Promoting Strategic Partnering in the Biomedical Field -

IWATA, August 31, 2018 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced today that, aiming to acquire a deeper level of knowledge and upgrade product development capabilities in the ever-growing biomedical research field, the Company has decided to invest in bioventure firm Evec, Inc.
Evec has strengths in the manufacturing and sale of “SEED antibodies,” which are essential in drug discovery, testing

Aaron Plessinger Makes it Two for 2018 with AMA Motocross 250MX Title Win

Aaron Plessinger Makes it Two for 2018 with AMA Motocross 250MX Title Win

August 21, 2018—On August 18, 2018, At Round 11 of the AMA Motocross Championship, held at Budds Creek, Maryland, U.S.A., the Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star/Yamaha Racing Team’s Aaron Plessinger, who competed in this season’s 250MX class on the YZ250F, clinched his first-ever AMA Motocross championship one round before the final round of the season. This win brings him up to two titles for 2018, a

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