Kawasaki Models

Kawasaki’s hybrid sportbike nameplate arrived for the 2024 model year as an all-new entry in the Ninja family, marking the company’s first production motorcycle to combine a gasoline engine with an electric traction m...

This nameplate first appeared for the 1987 model year as Kawasaki’s U.S.-market badge for the 750cc GPX/ZX750F sportbike. It arrived during the mid-1980s shift toward fully faired, race-inspired four-cylinder motorcyc...

Introduced for the 1984 model year, this nameplate became the machine that defined the modern big-bore Japanese sportbike for a generation. It was the first Kawasaki production motorcycle to wear the Ninja badge in No...

Kawasaki’s Ninja e-1 is the brand’s first electric Ninja and the company’s first mass-production battery-electric motorcycle, introduced for the 2024 model year. Announced in September 2023, it marked Kawasaki’s entry...

Introduced for the 2015 model year, this supercharged hypersport motorcycle marked a dramatic expansion of Kawasaki’s Ninja performance line. It was developed as a street-legal counterpart to the track-focused H2R, br...

Introduced for the 2015 model year, this closed-course hypersport machine was developed by Kawasaki as an uncompromised flagship and was shown publicly in late 2014 before reaching markets the following year. Kawasaki...

Kawasaki introduced this supercharged sport-tourer for the 2018 model year as part of the H2 family, extending the company’s forced-induction engineering into a long-distance road bike rather than a pure hypersport ma...

Introduced for the 2004 model year, this liter-class Ninja superbike arrived as a new flagship road-going sport model aimed squarely at the race-replica class. It quickly became one of the most recognizable names in m...

This track-focused supersport nameplate was introduced by Kawasaki for the 2017 model year as a more exclusive, higher-spec derivative of the ZX-10R platform. It was created to serve as a limited-production, race-insp...

Introduced for the 1990 model year, this liter-class sport motorcycle marked Kawasaki’s move into the high-speed open-class era of the 1990s. It was developed as a flagship performance machine and was sold in differen...

Introduced for the 2000 model year, this flagship Kawasaki Ninja was developed as the brand’s answer to the late-1990s hypersport arms race. It arrived with a strong focus on top-end performance, high-speed stability,...

Kawasaki introduced this model in 2006 as its new flagship open-class hypersport motorcycle, created to push the limits of straight-line performance while still remaining usable on the street. It arrived as the compan...

This Kawasaki flagship nameplate arrived for the 2012 model year as a heavily updated evolution of the earlier ZX-14/ZZR1400 family. Kawasaki positioned it as a top-tier hyperbike, built to combine enormous straight-l...

Introduced for the 2024 model year, this middleweight supersport marked Kawasaki’s return to a four-cylinder 400cc-class street bike after a long absence from that niche. It was positioned as a high-revving, compact m...

This nameplate entered Kawasaki’s lineup as part of the all-new ZX-4R family announced in February 2023, with the RR variant positioned as the most performance-focused version of the group. Kawasaki launched the model...

Kawasaki introduced this Ninja-branded supersport in 1990 as a middleweight four-cylinder sportbike positioned below its larger-liter race replicas but above entry-level machines. The nameplate ran through the 2002 mo...

Kawasaki’s middleweight supersport nameplate first appeared for the 1995 model year, launching as part of the Ninja family with a clear focus on track-capable performance in a road-legal package. It quickly became one...

Introduced for the 1994 model year, this nameplate marked Kawasaki’s move deeper into the big-bore supersport class. It arrived as a 900cc Ninja that aimed to blend real-world road manners with the kind of high-perfor...

Kawasaki’s Police 1000 was the company’s long-running factory police motorcycle line for North America, introduced for the 1978 model year and carried through the 2005 model year. The nameplate covered Kawasaki’s purp...

This nameplate was introduced as part of Kawasaki’s Prairie utility ATV family in 1999. It was the two-wheel-drive companion to the Prairie 300 4x4, sharing the same basic chassis and engine design but using a simpler...

Kawasaki introduced this Prairie nameplate for the 2003 model year as a mid-size utility ATV positioned below the larger Prairie 400 and 650 family. The base Prairie 360 was sold alongside a 4x4 derivative, but the pl...

This utility ATV nameplate arrived in the late 1990s as Kawasaki’s entry into the growing adult-size automatic workhorse market. Kawasaki’s own ATV history places the first 4x4 version in 1997, and notes that the 2WD ...

Introduced for the 2002 model year, this nameplate marked an important step in Kawasaki’s sport-utility ATV line. Kawasaki’s own ATV history describes it as a breakthrough machine and the world’s first mass-production...

This full-size sport-utility ATV arrived for the 2004 model year as Kawasaki’s largest Prairie at the time, positioned above the earlier 650-class machine. It carried forward the Prairie formula of hard-working utilit...