FIRST LOOK
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2016 YAMAHA MT-10
Y
amaha's Dark Side of Japan
platform just got a lot darker
(or fluorescent, depending
on where you look), as the company
unveiled one of the surprises of the
EICMA Show in Milan, the MT-10.
This is the first four-cylinder ma-
chine in the MT (branded FZ in the
R O B O T F U T U R E
Yamaha's MT/FZ lineup gets a big daddy in
the big bang powered MT.
U.S.), line-up, and is a return to
the ethos of the extremely popular
FZ1 machine, a naked bike that
borrowed its powerplant from the
YZF-R1.
As such, the new MT-10 is pow-
ered by a derivative of the cross-
plane crank engine found in the
