Kawasaki Motor Corporation

Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A., just announced the donation of a 2017 MULE PRO-FXT™ LE to benefit Boys Town California to be auctioned off at the annual Night of Hope event, November 5th, 2017. With an MSRP of $16,099 this powerful Kawasaki product is sure to garner tremendous attention. The auction will be hosted at The Resort at Pelican Hill in Newport Beach, California.

IRVINE, Calif. (June 24, 2016) –Motocross was a firestorm in the early 1970s, with numerous Japanese, European and even American motorcycle companies all scrambling to develop the right technological combination to win professional races, in the hands of weekend warriors, and on the showroom floor. The challenges were many, including quickly evolving engine, chassis and suspension designs that would all work well together. Piston-port and rotary-valve two strokes, and pushrod and overhead-cam four strokes, from 100cc to over 500cc all battled for the winning edge, with more than a dozen manufacturers competing for customers’ attention in a fast-growing sport. Motocross truly was a melting pot of technology at the time. 

IRVINE, Calif. (June 10, 2016) – Kawasaki was on a rocket ride at the end of 1972, with blistering¼-mile records for the Mach III 500 H1 and Mach IV 750 H2, national race wins, and an AMA 500Motocross title to its credit. All of these successes targeted performance enthusiasts, as did thenational advertising campaign “Come Out Ahead on a Kawasaki.” The payoff? Kawasaki movedinto the number-two sales position in the US.

 The Legend of the Mach III   With an audacious three-cylinder engine and the dragstrip wizardry of Tony Nicosia, the 1969 Kawasaki H1 immediately became a performance icon. 

 Nearly 50 years ago, the 250cc A1 Samurai motorcycle won Kawasaki’s first-ever U.S. road race at California’s Willow Springs Raceway in dramatic fashion. And that’s because racer Jim Deehan and the Samurai didn’t just beat a field of 250cc lightweights, it beat the entire field of 250cc through Open Production bikes – literally the best and fastest streetbikes available at the time. From Honda to Suzuki to Triumph, on November 6, 1966, the Samurai vanquished them all in its very first competition outing. Here’s how it happened. 

IRVINE, Calif. (Mar. 25, 2016) –As racing celebrated the 75th running of the Daytona 200 on March 12, it’s also worth celebrating the birth of the iconic Lime Green racing colors for Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. (KMC), which started as an “in your face” challenge to the competition on Daytona’s high banks during the 1969 Daytona Bike Week

                                          IRVINE, Calif. (Mar. 4, 2016) –Early on, Kawasaki executives quickly learned that American customers wanted far more than just getting from Point A to Point B on a fun little machine. The open roads and huge continent invited bigger bikes with more performance – much more. So, in a brazen move for the time, a twin-cylinder, rotary-valve two-stroke motorcycle called the A1 Samurai was created, soon to be followed by the larger A7 Avenger.