1. YAMAHA
Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd is one of the most popular motorcycle manufacturing companies in the world, owning an impressive number of bikes distributed all around the world. Yamaha was founded in 1955 by Genichi Kawakami. Suprisingly in the same year, Yamaha has launched their first motorcycle that named YA-1 that equipped with 125cc engine and 2 stroke type.
To prove that Yamaha built a very high-performance motorcycle, they has participate in the Mount Fuji Ascent race with their first present motorcycle that is YA-1. What make it more interesting, Yamaha has won the 125cc class of the Mount Fuji Ascent race. Next in 1955, the company won the first three places of the All Japan Autobike Endurance Road Race in the 125cc class with the same YA-1 model.
In 1956, Yamaha has produced their second model motorcycle named Yamaha YA-2. Suprisingly, Yamaha's YA-2 won the prestigious “Good Design” award which underlined the fact that Yamaha's YA series provided some of the best motorcycles of that time.
Time by time Yamaha improve their performance. In 1960 the Japanese company introduced its first outboard engine dubbed P-7. Moreover, one year later, Yamaha steps into World GP but also into the well-known Isle of Man TT race where it took the 6th place.
Since Yamaha had an impressive growth, the company planned an impressive expansion in multiple countries of the world, mostly based on new offices and dealerships. For instance, in 1964, the company founded Siam Yamaha Co. in Thailand while 4 years later, it opened the Dutch office.
In 1970, Yamaha rolled out its first 4-stroke engine, dubbed XS1 but it also continued its impressive expansion by opening a new office in Brazil.
The time passed by and Yamaha founded and opened an impressive number of offices and R&D centers in multiple locations of the world, no matter if we're talking about Portugal, Mexico, Hungary, Austria or China. Moreover, in 1999, no less than nine Yamaha Motor factories and offices won the ISO14001 certification.
In the recent few years, Yamaha continued its impressive growth but it also recorded important wins in the competitions it participated.
In 2004, Yamaha won the MotoGP rider championship title with the help of Valentino Rossi, the famous multiple MotoGP World Champion who won two titles with Yamaha. Getting back to the company's motorcycle manufacturing process, in 2007, the total number of motorcycles produced in Thailand reached 10 million units.
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