VOL. 53 ISSUE 23 JUNE 14, 2016 P49
Better late than never, right?
The 2017 model year just got a
whole lot more exciting!
G
ood things come to those
who wait, right? Well
America, the wait is al-
most over with the announce-
ment we will be getting the
MT-10 as a 2017 year model,
renamed the FZ-10 for our
market.
The FZ-10 will become the
flagship FZ naked bike in
Yamaha's lineup and uses a
retuned version of the awe-
some 998cc cross-plane
crank four-cylinder YZF-R1
engine that was compre-
hensively revamped for the
2015 model year. Changes
include new intake ports and
valves, combustion chamber,
camshafts, and compression
ratio. The changes are aimed
at providing more bottom-end
and midrange torque from an
engine normally revving itself
to the moon—something not
essentially required on an
FZ-10.
The chassis is Yamaha's
ubiquitous Deltabox frame,
similar to the R1, with fully
adjustable inverted forks from
KYB and a four-way adjust-
able, linkage-type shock.
There are no plans at this
stage to grace the FZ with
the electronic Öhlins that
adorn the YZF-R1M, but you
will get almost every other
form of R1 electronic gizmo in
the Yamaha Chip-Controlled
Throttle (YCC-T), D-Modes
(three different riding modes),
Traction Control (three differ-
ent settings), ABS, and, wait
for it, cruise control, bringing
the FZ into line with the BMW
S 1000 R as the only hyper-
naked to offer such a feature.
The FZ-10 will appear in
Armor Gray and Matte Ra-
ven Black, and will retail for
$12,999 with bikes available
in Yamaha dealerships begin-
ning in late June.
YAMAHA FZ-10
