Hot Rod Magazine Article
November, 1977
Highway 11
Page 3
nearly perfect a machine as we've encountered, offering comfort, quickness, speed, smoothness, great good looks and a whole long list of extra features that any rider will appreciate. Handling, too, was very good for a 600-pound machine with shaft drive, right on up to the point where rear suspension softness caused some quirky moves in tight, very-high-speed corners, bringing the back end of the machine around. But we hasten to add that even experienced riders will find very few places on public roads
At the moment, the XS Eleven has not been priced for the U.S. market. It
will certainly cost more than the $2198 asked for the XS750E. Even if Yamaha
adds another $800 for the XS Eleven, it will still be under $3000. And that
price begs a question: When was the last time you could buy a $3000,
135-mph, 11- second car? You never could, of course, and you never will.
That's why the Yamaha XS Eleven has got to be the high-performance buy of
the year for 1978.
HR
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Highway 11 - Hot Rod, November 1977
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