Some grainy catalogue shots of the 2016 Kawasaki Ninja 250R have been posted by Warungasep and TMCblog and the bike is expected to be launched in Indonesia some time this year. Rumour has it the Ninja 250R will come with a two-cylinder engine. The current Malaysian market Kawasaki Ninja 250 has a parallel-twin engine, while the 250SL has a single-cylinder thumper with both engines running EFI.
Given that its prime competitor in the quarter-liter class market is the Yamaha R25, which contains a parallel-twin, this isn’t that surprising. The rumoured Honda CBR250R replacement, the CBR250RR, is also said to be carrying a two-cylinder engine.
If this is a case, the current Kawasaki Malaysia line-up of the Ninja 250, and Ninja 250SL, might be superceded come 2017. However, going by past practice, Indonesia and Thailand tend to get the new models first, with Malaysia being between six months to a year late, sometimes more.
The Kawasaki Ninja 250SL retails for around RM17,689 without GST while the Yamaha R25 has an official retail price of RM20,206 inclusive of GST. The Honda CBR250R retails for RM19,999 for the standard Trico & Black and RM20,499 for Repsol – both without ABS. The CBR250R with C-ABS sells at RM22,999 for Trico & Black and RM23,499 for Repsol livery. The prices for the Honda CBR250R exclude GST.
GALLERY: 2015 Kawasaki Ninja 250 and 250SL
GALLERY: 2015 Yamaha R25
Don’t understand this article. Current Ninja 250 (and Z250) is indeed 2-cylinders. Parallel twin is not 2-cylinder?
the difference was on how the engine operate although both got 2-cylinder
care to explain? i’m also confuse with it?
The Ninja 250 is a parallel two-cylinder, while the Ninja 250SL is a single-cylinder.
i dont understand, both got 2 cylinder right?
so what does it means?
inline vs parallel?
one piston goes up while the other go down?
or both goes up then both go down at the same time?
what is the difference??!!
exactly like that, for parallel both piston at the same position. for inline there was difference position up and down. the result will be difference in term of torque and power delivery.
you are talking about 2 different thing. parallel and inline is the same thing. whenever the cylinder is put side by side, they can be called parallel or inline. engine firing order is another thing. and when both piston have same position and normally fire at the same time/nearly the same time, it is called big bang firing. go see wiki. another thing, the article is a bit confusing la. the so called indonesian 250R is quite similar to current model, maybe change the fairing only. either facelift or current model or fiber moulded by somebody. even fz150 got r1/r6 fairing moulding…
Don’t forget, there is also the V-twin engine.
there were also rumours that this model will be the new zx2r which have inline-4 engine…
why they doesn’t make those 250cc inline 4
anymore these day?
Ninja 250cc 4cylinder really legend, and hope kawasaki will make special ones that have enough torque to carry Pokjib and Kak Mah..
For that kind of load, u need a v twin- better low down torque. Maybe a turbo or two sebab dosa banyak sgt, berat….
twin is sufficient for a 250cc, it is good enough for those power&torque figures, while keep at healthy low-vibration level.
i think for a straight 4, the cost would be significantly high and difficult to place it in the highly competitive 250cc market nowadays after a lot of single bang has joined the class.
This is Sept ’14 news from TMCblog. Rumors regarding Kawasaki Indon working with 250cc inline-4 but later was denied. Anyway 250 engine with 4 piston (quite complicated to maintained) but it would be nice to have in our market.