Long-awaited, Iwata’s three-cylinder touring car equipped with front radar, the 2023 Yamaha Tracer 9 GT Plus, is finally here.
Based on the current Tracer 9 GT, Yamaha launches the 2023 version with many electronic innovations, among which the front radar stands out.
In this way it becomes the first Yamaha to equip a millimeter wave radar, so it will go down in history for it.
Thus, this new GT equips the aforementioned radar, but there is still more, because this allows it to incorporate an adaptive cruise control ACC -Adaptive Cruise Control-, and also launches a UBS unified braking system linked to the radar plus an electronic suspension and modes smart driving.
Externally it is exactly the same current Tracer 9 GT, with the only visible change located in the front of its semi-fairing, between the two lower LED headlights, where the new radar that controls the ACC is located.
The new adaptive cruise control, thanks to the front radar, constantly knows the distance to the vehicle in front, and automatically controls cruising speed, deceleration and acceleration.
If it detects a vehicle, the ACC increases the engine braking and, if it detects that the deceleration is not sufficient, it acts slightly on both brakes -thanks to the new integral braking UBS, Unified Brake System.
The Yamaha Tracer 9 GT Plus 2023 incorporates a millimeter wave radar
The distance to the vehicle in front, the sensitivity of the system, the speed and almost all parameters can be adjusted.
But there is more because there is also a “cornering assistant”; this prevents increasing speed when the system knows that a curve is being negotiated.
Another gadget is that it incorporates the “overtaking assistant”: it softens the acceleration when it detects that the turn signal has been activated and an overtaking is taking place.
And if you think that’s all you’re wrong… The Tracer 9 GT+ incorporates a new set of intelligent electronic suspensions from KYB, which work in conjunction with ACC and UBS Unified Braking.
It is the KADS system (KYB Actimatic Damper System) that, in addition to managing the suspensions to provide more comfort depending on the state of the road or the type of driving, works together with the adaptive cruise control.
And it is that while the ACC is activated, the KADS system prevents the suspension from sinking or extending excessively when the radar sends the order to brake or accelerate to the adaptive cruise control.
The electronics work with the ACC, the KADS electronic suspension system and the unified braking system.
This GT+ also features a third-generation Up&Down quickshifter that allows it to be activated without the ACC being disconnected. Another great novelty.
The Sport, Street, Rain and Custom driving modes are of course retained, but now work in conjunction with the engine character selector (mode D).
Traction control, skid control, elevation control and the IMU -inertial control unit- are also maintained, without which none of this would be possible.
The instrumentation is also new, a 7” TFT screen and Bluetooth connectivity with the Yamaha MyRide app, and with the information available in three interfaces.
In addition, there is the Garmin Motorize app -which is paid- to create your routes, save them, check real-time traffic and much more. And it’s all controlled with the 5-position joystick and start button located on the left grip.
More changes: the seat has been improved, it has better height adjustment and its upholstery is new, the rear disc has a larger diameter -267 mm-, the footrests, rear brake pedal and rider supports are new, and a USB A socket
It incorporates a curious and controversial assistant in curves that avoids accelerating in curves…
For the rest there are no more changes. Thus, the cast aluminum Deltabox chassis, its longer and lighter double-sided swingarm, the double 298 mm front brake disc with 4-piston radial semi-monoblock calipers, are maintained, like the semi-fairing, the screen higher wind deflector -and adjustable with one hand-, or the tail and full led headlights.
The 10-spoke SpinForged alloy wheels, handguards, fuel tank, front fender and radial front master cylinder are also the same.
And the three-cylinder CP3 Euro 5 engine -4T, LC, 12V, DOHC, 890 cc- with 119 CV seen in the Tracer 9 GT 2021 is also maintained. Below are the Tracer 9 and Tracer 9 GT, which do not have the front radar and offer a lower level of equipment.
At the moment neither price nor availability has been indicated.
