New cam timing, fuelinjection mapping and a different rod will help the Raptor rev quicker and make more power while still retaining reliability and that super-smooth all-around power curve. The new head features a completely new single-port exhaust design and an exhaust system to work with it. Compression was increased from 9.2:1 to 10:1, and the engineers completely redesigned the cylinder head. Apparently, being the most powerful sport quad on the market wasn’t enough Yamaha engineers pulled 10 percent more horsepower out of the Raptor’s 686cc engine. Yamaha has stuck to its strategy of releasing a great product and then refining it to near perfection over the model run.
While the YFZ450R has basically been untouched since 2014, the Raptor 700 received a laundry list of solid upgrades. The YFZ450R is $8799, and the Special Edition is $8999.
If you’re looking for a lower overall entry point, the standard Raptor 700 can be had for $1100 less than the base YFZ450R, but it is definitely stripped down in terms of suspension quality and accessories. If you plan on track or desert riding, you will really appreciate the wider, long-travel front end on the YFZ-R, as it will cost $1000–$2000 to replicate it on the 700. Both machines come with EFI, upgraded aluminum parts, graphics, etc., and they both also come with truly highend, fully adjustable KYB shocks. If we’re talking apples to apples with the YFZ-R SE and the 700R SE, it’s only a 200-dollar difference in favor of the Raptor. We recently spent a few days with Yamaha in the dunes to really compare these two machines and try to help our readers make that ultra-important decision: 450-class leader or big bore? Which is the better all-around sport ATV for dunes, trails and tracks, the Yamaha Raptor 700R or the Yamaha YFZ450R? To find out, we compared the Special Edition of each machine at Glamis and the surrounding desert. While Suzuki and Kawasaki are out, and Honda is still pushing the same exact bike it brought us in 2006, Yamaha has continued to invest in improvements year after year. These ATVs have proven themselves in nearly every discipline of ATV riding and racing, but if your thing happens to be the sand, the Yamahas are even more of a no-brainer. The fuel-injected YFZ450R is pretty much race-ready off the showroom floor, and the EFI-fed Raptor 700 is the only other current big-bore sport quad worth mentioning. With pickup trucks being the best-selling vehicles in the US by a significant margin, one can’t help but wonder why VW wouldn’t offer a truck in a region where there’s such demand for one.When it comes to the current state of sport-quad supremacy, Yamaha just might have the market on lockdown. Recently, VW CEO Herbert Diess was quoted on 60 Minutes as saying the automaker had to become relevant again in the US. That could well change, however, if the small and midsize truck segment continues growing in the United States. That’s also a sharp no, at least at launch and likely for years to come. Underhood options aren’t known, but we believe it will utilize VW diesel power.Īnother question is whether the Amarok will ultimately come to the US market. VW will change up the sheet metal in places, and it will obviously wear a fresh face. As you’d expect, there’s a strong similarity to the Ranger, especially in the profile view. A few days prior to that, VW released a couple of teaser sketches promising to show the truck in near-production form.
News on the Amarok front has been curiously quiet this year, with our last whisper of activity coming in the form of spy photos on February 23. Save over $ 3,400 on average off MSRP* on a new Ford Rangerįor now, the new Amarok in standard trim needs to arrive before we can ponder a high-performance model.
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