Comments on: OX99-11 – The Yamaha Supercar

By: Frederick Spice

Frederick Spice — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:22:01 +0000

I heard quite a lot about these cars, and seen a lot of pictures too taken by my brother, who done body work and paint on them at the workshop. I cant remember, but didnt they have to add a grille on the front spoiler to be road legal in the uk? Every car got somewhat about 25 layers of paint ( from base to clear ). My brother promised me a the big yamaha badge fitted to them, but I never got it…

By: Marcus Hotblack

Marcus Hotblack — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:47:50 +0000

Just came across this…I also worked at IAD at the time and was involved with the interior/styling.
Yamaha were very keen that the car felt like Race cars and gave as much as possible the Quality of driving an open wheeler specifically an F1 car. They also wanted it to be a two seater so early bucks examined having the passenger sitting behind with the driver in front and passenger behind like a motorcycle but with a shell race seat it was a virtual physical impossibility to use that configuration so the passenger sat at a bit of an angle with their feet on one side. I also recall itching to get stuck into the interior style and exterior but that was strictly controlled and was rigidly held to a form follows function strategy to ensure race car functionality and an engineered look was maintained It ended up being OK but I always felt it had bags more potential. The car concept was cool but the detail surface and proportions made it look ungainly and had it been maintained as a programme and reworked it could have been awesome.

By: Fred Rohlman

Fred Rohlman — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:28:15 +0000

Yamaha has done it again gone above the rest i would buy this car for sure. But the first thing that i would do is lose the front wing and then maybe it would be a sexy looking car and since yamaha is better known for bikes how about putting a large displacement bike motor too.

By: GUS ERLANDSON

GUS ERLANDSON — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:22:29 +0000

I worked for Ypsilon in a small team of ex F1 and group C mechanics, myself ex Williams and Arrows. We did extensive track testing at snetterton and Silverstone as well as mira. High point was road trials in the swiss alps followed by Nardo speed bowl. It was faster than the Diabalo also there.Shame Yamaha pulled the plug. I still have a large framed picture on my office wall of the red car.The three cars were red black and green.

By: oki

oki — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:44:55 +0000

what an ugly car. i’d prefer a ferrari. these japanesse doesn’t know anything about elegance. it’s look like cereal box car… disspointing.. i like yamaha bikes but give me a break that car is horrible