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Yamaha Sports Ride Concept Debuts As Low-Fat Supercar – Tokyo Motor Show

Although it isn’t the first collaboration between motorcycle manufacturer Yamaha, and F1 designer Gordon Murray, Yamaha’s Tokyo Motor Show concept, the Sports Ride certainly looks more promising than the earlier Motiv.e city car. The idea o


Although it isn’t the first collaboration between motorcycle manufacturer Yamaha, and F1 designer Gordon Murray, Yamaha’s Tokyo Motor Show concept, the Sports Ride certainly looks more promising than the earlier Motiv.e city car.

The idea of a motorcycle builder branching into building cars is nothing new, Honda, Suzuki, and BMW have all made a decent go of it, and even back in the early 1990’s Yamaha toyed with the idea of a V12 powered supercar based on its own F1 engine of the time.

Kez Casey

Kez Casey migrated from behind spare parts counters to writing about cars over ten years ago. Raised by a family of automotive workers, Kez grew up in workshops and panel shops before making the switch to reviews and road tests for The Motor Report, Drive and CarAdvice.

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