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The Yamaha XJR1200 is a motorcycle manufactured by the Yamaha Motor Company. It was designed in the early 1990s to compete with the high powered naked bikes already on the market such as the Kawasaki Zephyr 1100 and Honda CB1000 .
As the era of Naked Bikes arrived in the early 1990s, Yamaha was behind the trend and wanted to keep up with their competitors. With the arrival of the Kawasaki Zephyr, Yamaha based their benchmarks on the renowned motorcycle and the result was a 399cc oil-cooled sports naked motorcycle, the XJR400.
The first bike manufactured by Yamaha was actually a copy of the German DKW RT 125; it had an air-cooled, two-stroke, single cylinder 125 cc engine [1] YC-1 (1956) was the second bike manufactured by Yamaha; it was a 175 cc single cylinder two-stroke.
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The company launched a website, Autotrader.co.uk, in 1996, giving people the ability to buy or sell a car online. [ 6 ] British international investment firm BC Partners bought a stake in the business from John Madejski in July 1998 for £260m; then Guardian Media Group , who had acquired Automart in 1982, merged that business with Hurst ...
The Yamaha XJ900 is a motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha from 1983. It was a development of the original Yamaha XJ model, the XJ 650, which was the foundation for the entire XJ series. Yamaha XJ900 31A. In its original incarnation, the XJ900 had an air-cooled, double overhead camshaft, 853 cc (52.1 cu in) 4-stroke, 4-cylinder, 8-valve engine ...
The 1997–2003 XJR produced 370 horsepower (276 kW) and 385 pound-feet (522 N⋅m) of torque, taking the car to 60 mph (97 km/h) in 5 seconds. The new aluminium bodyshell from 2004 to 2009 and increased power to 400 hp (298 kW) and enhanced computer systems decreased the time to 60 mph (97 km/h) to 4.8 seconds.
This used the scheme introduced in 1932, of a three-letter combination followed by a sequence number from 1 to 999, but also added a letter suffix, which initially changed on 1 January each year. An "A" suffix was thus used for 1963, "B" for 1964, etc. Middlesex was the first authority to adopt this scheme when it issued AHX 1A in February 1963 ...