Yamaha Models

Yamaha introduced this North American-market performance cruiser for the 2002 model year, positioning it as a more aggressive, sportier offshoot of the Road Star family rather than a traditional laid-back cruiser. Yam...

Introduced for the 2006 model year, this Yamaha cruiser was created as the flagship of the company’s North American Star lineup. It marked a major step in Yamaha’s big-bore cruiser strategy, arriving as a new full-siz...

Introduced for the 1996 model year, this was Yamaha’s first Star-series cruiser built around a liquid-cooled 1,294 cc V4 and a deliberately classic American touring-cruiser stance. It marked a major shift for Yamaha i...

Introduced in 1996, this was the touring version of Yamaha’s original liquid-cooled V4 Royal Star cruiser, created to broaden the line beyond the standard solo-and-light-touring format. It kept the Royal Star’s large-...

This Yamaha touring cruiser was introduced for the 2005 model year as a more stripped-back companion to the Royal Star Venture. It kept the Royal Star platform’s long-distance touring character but removed some of the...

Introduced for the 1999 model year, this full-dress touring motorcycle marked Yamaha’s return to the Venture name in a new form, drawing on the company’s earlier V4 touring heritage while moving the concept into a mod...

This Yamaha snowmobile nameplate was introduced for the 2005 model year as part of Yamaha’s RS series, a new generation of four-stroke performance and performance-touring sleds. It was positioned as a rough-trail mach...

This Yamaha snowmobile nameplate was introduced for the 2005 model year as the company’s new four-stroke performance-touring offering. It was developed to strengthen Yamaha’s position in the growing four-stroke segmen...

This Yamaha snowmobile nameplate debuted for the 2005 model year as part of the company’s early 4-stroke expansion in North American touring sleds. It was introduced as a tandem-touring derivative of the RS Vector fam...

This utility snowmobile nameplate was introduced for the 2013 model year as a four-stroke, multi-purpose machine aimed at riders who needed a balance of long-distance comfort, utility capability, and reliable cold-wea...

This Yamaha nameplate was introduced for the 1990 model year as a small-displacement off-road play bike aimed at entry-level trail riding and recreational use. Yamaha’s own historical material places it in the company...

This lightweight off-road motorcycle was introduced for the North American market as a compact two-stroke enduro aimed at riders who wanted a simple, approachable trail machine rather than a full-size competition bike...

Yamaha’s RX-1 was introduced for the 2003 model year as the company’s first production snowmobile powered by a four-stroke engine. It marked a major turning point for Yamaha’s snowmobile line, which had long been domi...

Introduced for the 2003 model year, this Yamaha snowmobile marked the company’s first 4-stroke entry in the category and a major shift in its sport-sled strategy. It was developed around a Yamaha motorcycle-derived fo...

Yamaha’s RX50 was part of the company’s early-1980s push to expand the RX family into small-displacement street motorcycles with the same visual attitude and market presence as its larger Special models. Yamaha’s own ...

This Yamaha snowmobile nameplate was introduced for the 2004 model year as a new 4-stroke sport touring machine built around the RX-1 family. Yamaha positioned it as a performance solo touring sled, aimed at riders wh...

This U.S.-market two-stroke sport bike arrived in the mid-1980s as part of Yamaha’s celebrated liquid-cooled, reed-valve twin family. It was developed during a period when the company was trying to preserve the appeal...

This nameplate marked Yamaha’s road-going V4 two-stroke race-replica for export markets such as Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. It was introduced in 1984 as Yamaha moved to capture the enthusiasm surrounding facto...

The SCR950 was Yamaha’s retro-styled Sport Heritage scrambler, introduced for the 2017 model year as a factory-built nod to the street scramblers of the 1960s. It was based on the company’s Bolt/V-Star 950 family, but...

Yamaha used the Seca nameplate for a family of sport-oriented street motorcycles aimed at riders who wanted a sharper, more European flavor than the company’s more relaxed standards and cruisers. The name first appear...

This Yamaha middleweight was introduced for the 1992 model year as a practical, everyday-oriented road bike in the company’s XJ family. In many markets it was sold as the Diversion 600/XJ600S, while in the United Stat...

This Yamaha snowmobile nameplate debuted for the 2017 model year as a major performance flagship for the brand’s North American lineup. It arrived as a modern turbocharged trail and crossover family, replacing the lon...

This Yamaha snowmobile record covers several distinct nameplates that were introduced in different eras rather than one single continuous model line. The earliest thread is the SnoScoot, Yamaha’s compact youth snowmob...

Yamaha’s six-passenger golf-car nameplate belongs to the company’s modern resort-and-course utility lineup, which was refreshed in 2018 with a new series designed to support route memory and easier day-to-day operatio...