IN my day I've had a total of four of Kawi's older 750... a 92 ZX-7RR, a 94, a 98 and a 99 ZX-7R.....
they were great bikes... But by comparison they became outdated... the 600 class was dropping weight like mad.. and Suziki did a redesign on the middle weight gsxr in the late 90's, the kawi never got the upgrade. the last year they made it was in '03 but it was littlerally an IDENTICAL bike to the '96 model. Heavy, carbureted rather than FI... they dropped it because of sales.. but the sales slipped because they failed to upgrade it to match the performance of the Suzuki.
There have been rumors floating around for a few years now that they were planning to re-enter the middleweight class with a ZX8R, but they're just that... rumors...
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