If you say Yamaha, it is of course famous for 2 wheeler, but it has now developed and produced an engine for 4-wheeler. Yamaha has already made an engine for F1.
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| YAMAHA F1 V12 |
The car engine business of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. started from "Toyota 2000GT (Sold during 1967)" from the year 1964.
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| TOYOTA2000GT engine |
It seem that with the start of the car that is under joint development and production by Toyota and Yamaha, it has also supplied the engines to Ford and Volvo.
The strength of Yamaha is the high speed, lightweight and compactness based on the technology cultivated for the 2-wheeler. Recently, Yamaha is supplying the V6 engine of 2.5L for Lexus IS/GS, Crown, and Mark X, in addition to the joint development and production for the V10 engine of Lexus "LFA".
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| LEXUS LFA |
Yamaha has achieved the total production of engine for car is one million in the year 1989, and two million in the year 2005, and this time it has reached three million.
Surprisingly unknown fact but Yamaha made the engine of famous car of Toyota.
On June 8, 2014 at 9:45 am, a Japanese beech tree of about 30 meters in height and 1.9 meter in diameter growing along the slope of the 156th National highway in Toyama Prefecture fell down across the road.
The tree feel hit the sports car traveling directly below, and a male company employee (28 years) of the Yamato-Koriyama City in Nara Prefecture driving the car was slightly injured with the cuts and bruise in his arm.
As per the police report, the beech tree collapsed from the root and directly hit the bonnet of the sports car.The sports car is the famous “Toyota 2000GT”, and it suffered serious damage by the crushing of the trunk and the branch.
There were no fellow passengers in the car.
The Toyota 2000GT is the most valuable car with total production of only 337 cars. It made the headlines when it was successfully bid for about 1.16 million dollars (about 118 million yen) at the auction held by the M/s.RM auctions that especially handles the classic cars.
As a Japanese car it is one of the most valuable car with a very high price tag, and one of that car is now vanished.
