Kawasaki Jet Ski

Jet Ski is the brand name of a personal watercraft manufactured by Kawasaki, a Japanese company, and the name is often used generically for any personal watercraft. Released in 1972, the stand-up Kawasaki Jet Ski was the first commercially successful personal watercraft in America and the only commercially successful one for almost 16 years. The first models, the WSAA and WSAB, used modified 400cc two-stroke twin-cylinder engines with a fully enclosed impeller and self-righting and self-circling features. Kawasaki introduced the runabout-style X2 in 1986, which gained its own Sport Class in racing, and in 2016 the company reintroduced a stand-up model, the SX-R 1500.