Yamaha Motorsports, USA (2024)

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Who owns Yamaha Motorsports? ›

Who owns Yamaha Motor Company? The Yamaha Motor Company is a publicly traded entity registered on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The company has roughly 350 million shares outstanding as of mid-2023.

"Product supply shortages continuing due to difficulties in procuring semiconductors, such as sound generator LSIs, and disruptions in logistics, are estimated to continue to a certain extent into the next fiscal year," admitted [PDF] the company in its annual report for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022.

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Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd (currently Yamaha Corporation) was founded by Torakusu Yamaha in 1887 to manufacture reed organs and pianos and became the largest Japanese manufacturer of musical instruments in the early 20th Century.

The Yamaha R6 was killed off because of EU regulations

But why couldn't Yamaha continue selling the YZF-R6 models in the United States since it was locked out of Europe? It's too expensive and complicated for manufacturers to design a different version of the same model for different countries — according to Honda.

Is Yamaha Owned by Toyota? No, Yamaha is not owned by Toyota. However, Toyota is the second-largest stakeholder in the company, holding about 3.8% of the company's shares. Yamaha Corporation is the largest shareholder of Yamaha Motor Company and therefore, the rightful owners of the company.

Japan's largest automaker, the Toyota Motor Corporation, will buy a 5 percent stake in the Yamaha Motor Company, the world's second-largest motorcycle maker. Toyota and Yamaha Motor plan to work together to develop their motor sports businesses as well as to design and build automobile engines.

On July 1, 1955, the motorcycle division at Nippon Gakki was spun off and founded as an independent company: Yamaha Motor. Then in 1987, Nippon Gakki changed its name to Yamaha Corporation, which meant that there were now “two Yamahas.” And naturally, the two companies share a few deeply rooted traditions.

Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Yamaha Corporation / Headquarters

According to an official comment quoted in several reports from Yamaha UK, “Yamaha Motor Group have taken the decision not to develop an EU5+ version of the R1 or R1M, instead focussing on other mid-term business and product strategies that will provide future opportunities.”

Does Yamaha own Yamaha motors? ›

Musical instrument maker Yamaha Corporation and motorcycle manufacturer Yamaha Motor both originate from the same company: Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. On July 1, 1955, the motorcycle division at Nippon Gakki was spun off and founded as an independent company: Yamaha Motor.

The motorcycle company actually became independent from the piano company in the 1950s but I think it still owns shares. It was started as musical instrument company back in the 19th century but also made other odds and ends too.

As the world's largest comprehensive musical instruments manufacturer, Yamaha handle a wide range of instruments, which has enabled us to refine various kinds of technologies.

Mobility product manufacturer Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. and musical instrument and audio system manufacturer Yamaha Corporation are two different companies, but they have the same roots, the same Yamaha brand name, and the same tuning fork motif in their respective logos.