Kawasaki celebrates 40th anniversary of Ninja with special edition colours

The Kawasaki Ninja 40th anniversary edition bikes announced today will offer retro paint schemes among other exclusive features.

The 40th anniversary of the Kawasaki Ninja range is being celebrated not only with a special edition paint job on a Kawasaki ZX-10R, but also on some of the other bikes in the Ninja range.

This includes the Kawasaki ZX-4RR and Kawasaki ZX-6R, with the former only having been announced in its standard version earlier this year.

Each of the bikes will be displayed for the first time later this year at the EICMA show in Milan, where they will be shown off in their respective ‘90s-inspired green, white, and blue paint jobs. It is a scheme that was famously run by Kawasaki in the 1990s, and one that was brought back in one-off race schemes in recent years, firstly by the factory Kawasaki team in WorldSBK at 2022’s Argentinian round, and then by the official Kawasaki UK team in British Superbikes, FS-3, who have ran the same colours in the past two years.

Certainly, the paint brings a nostalgic flavour to the bikes, which also each receive 40th anniversary badging on the fuel tank. There are some differences in the livery between the models, but only to match it to the different bodywork of the different models.

Launching alongside the existing 2024 colours for the ZX-10R, ZX-6R, and ZX-4RR respectively, the cost of the 40th anniversary versions of each bike are below.

Kawasaki Ninja40th anniversary pricing

Kawsaki Ninja ZX-4RR - £8,899
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R - £10,849
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R - £17,749