We Say: Many Years and Half a Dozen Iterations Later, Here’s an FZ We Want
When Yamaha decided to come back officially to Indian showrooms, it pulled out a couple of motorcycles that properly reset the bar for motorcycles in our country. The original FZ is nearly a decade old now, but it still looks like it was designed yesterday and can stand up to any of its rivals for its handling and refinement. This is possibly why the Japanese manufacturer decided it was good enough to spin so many variations offthe FZ. However, the bit where it lost out, despite a version 2.0, was the lack of power. It has taken Yamaha a lot of time to answer that concern, but given an answer it has, with the FZ25. Unlike the original FZ, this one is a far more calculated move and builds on the FZ’s strong shoulders. They admit to have lost a fair number of loyalists to other brands for the want of bigger-capacity motorcycles, but this is Yamaha trying to woo them back to the showroom with a fresh new 249cc, single-cylinder motorcycle which makes 20bhp and 20Nm of torque and has the familiarity of its massively successful FZ.
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