For nearly a decade, Yamaha would supply engines that would power F1 vehicles, with its engines appearing in 116 races. But why exactly did the company decide to stop? Well, the answer lies ...

As for racing engines, things are a bit less rosy. Yamaha ran an F1 project from the tail end of the 1980s all the way into the mid 1990s, never with anything that you might call success.

Frustrating, but this was a small mosquito bite on the neck compared to the 25-year heartache caused by the cancellation of Yamaha's mid-engined V-12 Formula 1-inspired supercar that was just a ...

The concept car that Yamaha had teased two weeks ago has been ... the man behind many Formula One (F1) designs and, of course, the McLaren F1 supercar. His contribution can be found at the carbon ...

Yamaha Electronics Corp. is now shipping their new Mac compatible CD-RW drives. The external USB 2.0 model CRW-F1ZUX is shipping and will be available at an estimated street price of US$229.99.

It was also incredibly light. According to Yamaha, it only weighed 1,000kg (2,204 pounds). The McLaren F1, another competing just-barely-road-legal racing car, weighed just over 2,500 pounds.

The transmission is the pivotal change from the initial YXZ1000R, and Yamaha equipped the SS version with a Sport Shift technology inspired by Formula 1 gearboxes. Originally, the technology was ...