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Kawasaki has announced the 2027 model of its parallel four-cylinder 400cc supersport, the Ninja ZX-4R, for overseas markets. It gets an exclusive new color, continuing the rare small-displacement inline-four package.
A 400 inline-four is at its best when you rev it out. That feeling of holding high RPM through corner exit and pulling through it, is something this bike lets you experience even in everyday street riding. Continuing to sell it overseas with different colors just shows it's still landing well. Good machine.
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Wonder if these overseas-exclusive colors ever end up making it to Japan through gray-market imports.
Is a 400cc four-cylinder really that unusual?
It's a rare genre that other manufacturers have basically abandoned since the production costs are hard to justify.
While Yamaha and Honda lean toward twins in the 400 class, I love that Kawasaki keeps stubbornly sticking with the four-cylinder.
If it's just a new color with everything else carried over, this honestly doesn't feel like much of a model-change story.
Just keeping a 400cc four-cylinder alive at all is something to be grateful for, given how tough that must be cost-wise.
Just being a 400cc inline-four alone already makes the ZX-4R one of a kind.
