The Yamaha XV700 or Virago 700 was a
Yamaha V-twin cruiser
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The term "cruiser", which has been in use for several hu ...
motorcycle. Made from 1984 to 1987, it was part of Yamaha's
Virago
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line of cruisers. It was informally known as Yamaha's "tariff buster" of the US's
1983 tariff on imported motorcycles with over 700 cc of displacement. When the tariff ended in 1988, Yamaha switched back to the
XV750.
See also
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Yamaha XV1100
References
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Virago 700
Cruiser motorcycles
Motorcycles introduced in 1984