Yamaha brings back the most legendary model name in their history: the YZF-R7. However, it is not what you think.
The YZF-R7 is the most legendary Superbike Yamaha has ever built, even more so than the OW-01 that started Yamaha's Superbike adventure in the late 1980s. The R7 was a super exclusive supersport, produced in a very limited edition of 500 pieces to meet the homologation requirements of the World Superbike Championship.
With very limited production, Yamaha's intentions were clear: the YZF-R7 OW-02 was not built to be the kilo-stunner of the week, but to finally win the World Superbike World Championship title as an uncompromising and expensive homologation special. to go raking.
Only the name YZF-R7 returns, not the legendary 750cc four-cylinder superbike, if you secretly hoped that.
It is getting harder and harder to get high-revving multi-cylinders homologated. Or at least at a cost that the manufacturers seem feasible.
For that reason, the lightweight 650 twins are back in the spotlight after years of being in the shadow of the 600 supersport and 1000 superbikes.
It can therefore be concluded that there will be a faired version of the MT-07, as a counterpart to the Kawasaki Ninja 650 and the new Aprilia RS 660.
The Aprilia peaks just above 100 hp, Yamaha's CP2 model block was still good for about seventy horses. Of course Yamaha will not stop there ...