Yamaha sports car study: ultralight and really fast: Yamaha wants to build cars

Yamaha sports car study

Ultralight and really fast: Yamaha wants to build cars

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Yamaha sports car study: for deep satisfaction

The motorcycle manufacturer Yamaha could soon go under the carmakers. On the Tokyo Motor Show, the Japanese show an exciting sports car study in bonsai format, where a former formula 1 designer has worked. About series production is not decided yet.

Whether keyboards, pianos or corporate wings for house music, whether water pumps or hi-fi systems, whether boat engines or hot racers on two wheels: always is Yamaha on it. Soon the name should also be transported with four wheels in all world. On the Tokyo Motor Show, the Japanese company famous as a motorcycle manufacturer showed its idea of a two-seater sports car.

750 kilos light sports mobile

The quite exciting styled Yamaha has no name. "Sports Ride Concept" is called the study, the Yamaha President Hiroyuki Yanagi now revealed. The boss tries in the tribute to the work of his designer also a piece of Japanese culture. "Kando" is the magic word, which translates as much as the "simultaneous feeling of deep satisfaction and intense pleasure".

Covered Lets Yanagi but details of the already purely visually fast sports mobile. Betrayed that the two-seater is 3.90 meters long and only 1.17 meters high. 750 kilograms he should also bring the scales. A lightweight so, with which certainly one of the stronger engines from one of the in-house superbikes should not have a trouble.

Michael Gebhardt / SP-X Yamaha wants to build a car

Which engine could be exactly for a future Yamaha sports car and if it remains with the idea of a mid-engine concept, does not reveal. In any case, however, the rear wheels are driven.

Carbon and steel

Also Engineer Masato Suzuki, whose workplace is located in the in-house technology center in Shizuoka, is considered: "There are many solutions imaginable," he evasively explains. But he stresses that the inner life of the racer is based on the so-called "Istream" chassis. It consists of a mixture of carbon and steel suitable for different vehicle shapes. An e-mobile that looks similar to the first smart generation and has many test kilometers behind it is as possible as a compact SUV. The frame developed together with the former Formula I-Designer Gordon Murray is characterized by low weight with high rigidity.

SP-X / Peter Mahah Betrayed that the two-seater is 3.90 meters long and only 1.17 meters high. 750 kilograms he should also bring the scales. A lightweight so, with which certainly one of the stronger engines from one of the in-house superbikes should not have a trouble

That would fit well with a kart-like sports car. Still, if the a little reminiscent of a lotus and even allows for the comparison with a shrunken Ferrari through the heavily fragmented front hood with formula 1 nose. Also a remote relationship to a McLaren sounds. Finally, Murray once constructed supporters McLaren F1. In any case, the lovingly designed interior with free-floating instruments and sports sites, which not only look good, but also promise secure page holding.

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For the opportunities for realization, technicians Suzuki, who is often smiled by his competitive surname, is often smelled by their own statement. After all, he reveals that the considerations for auto production under the name Yamaha are quite serious. Almost a confession for one of the House of Japanese.

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