Dirt Bike magazine must have got a good husky, MXA and motorcycle-usa both complain about the husky having weak power. The rest of the bikes are all relative to each other though. strange
The yamaha is still at the bottom of the class though. No wonder there are still 2011 models sitting on dealer floors, the only other mfg i have seen with that problem over here is husky
See the text exposed in the bottom of that Graph picture: "It needs more motor, pure and simple". That's in reference to the Husky. As is the "very low expectations".
As for the shop 'sending back their 4 Strokes'. The US, or where ever it was, must have very different / flexible 'Floor Plans', to other places, for a dealer to be able to return bikes. Whatever the reality, I'd say the dealer lost a fair bit of money, returning them. Poor blighters. Unless Yamaha were transferring them to a dealer(s) that needed them.
I just had a mate of mine, read the thing about only 2ts being in the showroom. He offered another take on it. That being, " well, they are sitting on the showroom floor, 'cause they can't sell them". Be wary - what we 2t 'preferrers' tend to come out with, can often be thrown right back at us............. I don't agree with him, but he did point out that things can be interpreted very differently, depending on ones viewpoint.
