Entry-level small-displacement motorcycles have always been the main sales models of various manufacturers, occupying a major position in the market sales all the year round. With the increasingly strict environmental protection laws and regulations in recent years, major manufacturers are upgrading their technology to ensure their cars' power while reducing their emissions. After all, the emissions tax is still very high (there are few V8 models in the automobile industry in recent years). In the motorcycle industry, Yamaha, as a Japanese leader, plans to develop a brand-new three-cylinder engine, and the first model will be applied to YZF-R3.

For a three-cylinder engine, this is still familiar to Yamaha; After all, its torque master MT-09 series is a three-cylinder engine, and its CP3 engine has a very good reputation in the industry. This new research and development of Yamaha is based on this CP3 on the current MT-09.

In addition to strict laws and regulations, another point to note is that; Since KAWASAKI plans to launch a 250cc four-cylinder motorcycle, small displacement and multiple cylinders have become the trend of motorcycles in the future. For Yamaha, the fastest way is to put its own mature three-cylinder technology into the entry-level car.

This parallel three-cylinder CP3 engine has a displacement of 250cc? –? Between 300cc, it will not be too difficult for Yamaha technically. The only thing that needs to be considered is the research and development cost and whether it meets the environmental protection regulations. The former determines the price of the vehicle, and the latter determines whether it can be put into the market and the subsequent market.

The reason why Yamaha doesn't use the parallel four-cylinder engine like Kawasaki ZX-25R, but uses the parallel three-cylinder engine is that the three-cylinder engine has the power extensibility of the four-cylinder engine at high speed and the torque curve of the two-cylinder engine at low speed. It can be described as perfect compatibility, and another point is that Yamaha is more mature in 3-cylinder technology, and the research and development cost may be lower.

Although Yamaha YZF-R3' s three-cylinder engine is still under development, it is likely that there will be no results within this year; But this represents a new trend, that is, small-displacement cars are changing to multi-cylinder technology. For domestic motorcycles, while we are trying to climb the medium and large displacement, our competitors have turned the direction of research and development and made efforts to introduce small displacement cars, which may be worthy of our attention.

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