Yamaha introduced this naked roadster as part of its FZ8 family for the 2011 model year, positioning it as a middleweight inline-four street bike aimed at riders who wanted the broader, more upright feel of a standard motorcycle rather than a fully faired sport model. Yamaha’s own archive identifies the machine as a 2011 FZ8-N, and the company’s European show and lineup materials continued to feature the FZ8/FZ8 ABS through at least 2014, showing that the nameplate remained part of Yamaha’s roadster range for several model years. The model belonged to Yamaha’s broader FZ series lineage, which was used for accessible performance-focused street motorcycles in Europe and other markets. I found no official Yamaha source that clearly states a final model year for this exact nameplate, so the end of production cannot be verified confidently from the available evidence.
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