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Rumored Yamahas coming to Canada/USA? MT03, XJR1300, XTZ660, XTZ660 Tenere & TMAX

Somehow (and I don't know yet) this Canadian dealership thinks so... (Credit to High_Side for the find)

Blackfoot is proud to present you with some sneak peek previews of the upcoming 2008 bikes!

2008 Yamaha MT03


2008 Yamaha XJR1300


2008 Yamaha XTZ660


2008 Yamaha XTZ660 Tenere


2008 Yamaha TMAX

http://www.blackfootonline.com/updates/ ... amaha.html

I wonder as I just posted ALL the 2008 Yamaha's for North America yesterday (3 days work) and there is NO mention on the media site, USA or Canada site about any of these models.

Traditionally, the supersport bikes get announced last, and Yamaha announced them already... so I'm suspecting these models won't be coming for 2008, maybe 2009 early release is possible?

Mike

UPDATE: MCN is mentioning these models, but MCN is UK. And the models are in the same colors as well.

I'm think Blackfoot got a UK press release, got excited and posted it for Canada.

On the other hand, you never know, maybe it was time sensitive information (I get this kind of stuff too where I can't post it till X date) and they ignored the black out dates and posted it anyways??

Mike

Bikes look....streamlined!

XTZ660/Tenere?

I LIKE IT!!!!!!!!

I really do hope these show up here, as I'd really like to check that bike out.

Some of these bikes are not new models have been around Japan for years. Xj1300 was refresed last year and been in japan almost 20 years. before it was a 1200. the Tmax is about 5 years old. Mt03 is a Bulldog, a bike that never sold well anywhere. sorry not into the duel sport machines.

XJR1300? Looks like I could have a new ZRX after all. I don't think I'll ever actually see that bike, but I'd like to see it for sure.

Yep, I'm diggin' the Tenere as well if the price is right. The MT-03 could be fun as well....

Looking at Blackfoot's posted images I noticed all the bikes that are current known Canadian models are shown in the color schemes offered on Yamaha Motor Canada's web-site, so they would've had to piece together separate model release info of all these Euro-models....

It's possible Yamaha Canada wanted to announce all this fun Euromarket stuff closer to January Bike Show season. Canada has been used as a test market for previous Euro models. If the bikes are popular here they offer them to Yamaha USA. They used to only announce the new motocross bikes in September, but i guess there are leaks on the web most of the time nowadays for everything anyway.

* MAYBE * the web-guy/girl/gremlin or some internal marketing type at BF has screwed up

* OR * as in the past, Blackfoot is importing these grey-market bikes

They definitely are large enough to import bikes on a large scale. I remember them importing stuff in the 90's such as Aprilia RS250 street models (the street Aprilia's used Suzuki RGv250 motors rather than a Rotax-based engines from the race bikes). And Blackfoot's entire line of 2007 Honda bikes (possibly imported from the States, or even other Canadian dealers or elsewhere where the prices are lower), because Honda has pulled there dealership from Blackfoot. Honda Canada will continue to pull dealerships across Canada as there current (possibly misguided ) marketing strategy is to blend together Honda Auto/Bike/PowerProduct dealers into Honda Superstores. gee, I'm not sure if I want a Civic or a CR250!? maybe this goober salesman sitting in the Accord can help me decide

Warranty work must be fun for BF on Honda models, considering I heard not too long ago that there ongoing staff problems have them losing there service manager, swapping staff around willy-nilly, and only having 3 (!!!!) service technician's for the entire shop. I have no idea how they'll service 8 or whatever lines of motorcycles (let's see I think they got Aprilia back, Guzzi, Triumph, BMW and all the japanese stuff, plus whatever else they've got there hands on) with only 3 technician's... i heard the service delays in August were still 3 months! i can remember a friend who had to wait a month just for them to look at his Triumph Bonneville and THEN they ordered the speedo cable. That was 4 or 5 years ago now, so it looks like they've grown and are headed for bust again... i'm sure there are enough millions in that shop to survive whatever catastrophe hits them.

//monkey