Thursday, July 22, 2010

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Yamaha Sz-X 150cc review

Yamaha first launches Yamaha Sz before the sz-x series. Yamaha SZ was born – to provide a mass machine which could signify an epitome of practicality and ‘Value for Money-ness’ after riding high on the success of the performance oriented dazzlers.

Looking at the market Yamaha launched its sz-x and joined the competition of 150cc segments. Bajaj, Yamaha, Honda, are the leading bike company which is selling the 150cc bikes at low cost of 50,000 Rs.
But let us give more attention to Yamaha Sz-x as it is the review of the Sz-x.

Style & brand quality :
Yamaha’s bikes have always been those aggressive looking kinda and with this low cost variant, the looks do not get reprimanded, thankfully. SZ is beautifully crafted with a muscular and aggressive stance. It all starts with a bikini fairing (unlike FZ’s naked genre) which is all black colored plastic cupped in body colored fiber from the bottom. Yamaha logo right at the forehead, detached transparent windscreen and pointed orange colored side blinkers lend the front a hostile look. Though the contoured tank is not as huge looking as FZ, but possesses more capacity and bulges at the very right angles. The extended tank shrouds look well crafted from the sides but from the front they feel an odd fitment. Side panels are all black and plastic sporting the ‘Yamaha’ name in bold. Body colored rear panels culminate in black plastic again and a fantastically designed tail with a partition in between.

Engine And Transmission :


Well yamaha has copied the engine as compared to the Fz-16 which is an advantage as you are going to buy a bike ranging in 150cc.owered by the same 153cc mill that does duty on the elder brethren FZ series, this engine produces 12.1PS of maximum power under SZ’s tune and peaks at 7500 rpm. Torque produced is a respectable 12.8Nm at 4500 rpm.A direct comparison of these figures with FZ reveals that the low and mid range power concentration of both the bikes have been retained but SZ produces almost 2PS of power less than FZ. Turning our attention to the torque figures, SZ produces almost 1.2Nm of torque lesser than FZ but the graph has been redefined here. The torque peaks almost 1500rpm earlier than FZ (@4500rpm) which hints that special attention has been paid to load this bike with better city agility characteristics.

Mileage & Pricing:
The Sz-x is the highest ranging fuel efficient bike in Yamaha. The sz-x gives a mileage of 50-52kmpl and in highways or free road it gives an average of 65 kmpl.
The price ranges from 54,900Rs (may vary in other cities/states).


Conclusion:
Well i would say that investing on Yamaha is pretty much advisable as it gives no maintenance cost & best biking experience for teenagers. This bike is a good bike if you are wondering to invest in 150cc segments. But there are other bikes too which can be replaced with the yamaha Sz-x 150cc.