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Model report 600 super sports car

Model report 600 super sports car
Let the good times roll

Looking back ahead: 18 years of 600s are enough! Kawasaki throws the drill on and frees the super sporty middle class from their cubic capacity shackles.

Monika Schulz

04/19/2002

Why suddenly 636 cubic? What has Kawasaki thought about it? Increase in displacement ?? so nothing to me, nothing to you. Anyone could come. A 600 is a 600 is a 600 … Stop! Who, please, invented the classic supersport file in the first place? Exactly: the Greens. So they also deserve the right … Who invented it?
Okay okay Strictly speaking, the initial spark came from Italy. KB 2 Laser TT was the name of the 65 HP hot iron with which Bimota amazed the world 20 years ago. Less because of the classy packaged, drilled out 550 Kawasaki four-cylinder, but in view of the 26,300 marks acquisition costs. A conventional GPZ 550 didn’t have seven grand at the time. Dared the next foray into the vastness of the unknown displacement Yamaha with a tightened XJ 550. But the first real, deliberately developed 600? with four valves, water cooling and pipapo ?? was the GPZ 600 R. Kawasaki came to IFMA 1984 with it. And in a flash, the competition switched to red alert. The arms race in the sporting middle class began. The aim was to hit 75 hp at 10500 rpm and a nominal 214 km / h.
Honda can do it. In the fall of 1986. With the CBR 600 F: 85 hp, over 220 km / h and very, very fully clad. A bridge-framed bringer on modernist 17-inch wheels, weighs 201 kilograms and is as slippery as possible. Only the conservative clientele is not yet ready for it. She can’t cope with all the plastic, pats Honda as a yoghurt pot manufacturer and continues to buy from Kawasaki. There, however, they do not trust the peace, an 85-hp power version of the GPZ, which will go down in the annals under the acronym GPX 600 R: built almost unchanged for twelve years.
From 1988 onwards it all happened in quick succession: Suzuki launched the GSX 600 F. 86 PS! 222 kilograms of combat weight were considered improper even then. Slimming became an issue, and Yamaha threatened a super light, 91 hp FZR 600. With Deltabox frame ?? aluminum was rumored. Honda quickly increased to 93 hp, the FZR came? without aluminum, pressed 208 kilos and rarely more than 87 hp. Nevertheless, she won the first Supersport 600 European Championship in 1990 and the German Supersport Cup on top of that. From 1991 to 1994 Honda clears away. The guarantee of success is the CBR, type PC 25. The first 600 with a nominal 100 hp. At Kawasaki they are now celebrating the ZZ-R 600 including the Ram Air system and light metal bridge frame ?? even if the world turns up its nose at the corpulence of the 446-pounder.
Suzuki is sleeping. In 1993 the RF 600 R took to the field, but it didn’t get much on the sporting level. But it is beautiful with its Ferrari slots. It’s just a shame that something like that doesn’t count anymore, all signs of the class are pointing to storm. The new attacker is called ZX-6R ?? Ultra short stroke. Presentation 1994: game, set and win. From now on the competition is building up faster and faster, and soon nothing will be as old as last year’s 600 series: 105, 108, 111 hp. 13000, 13800, 14500 rpm. 200, 199, 196 kilos. One record chases the other. The Greens think about the environment in between, bring an unregulated Kat in 1999. Honda comes in 2001 with G-Kat. And what does the ungrateful citizen do? Always looks more unabashedly for more displacement, because of less shifting and turning. Kawasaki has undoubtedly seen the signs of the times.

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