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Smoke On The Water: 2010 Benz SLS AMG Inspires Cigarette Race Boat

 
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Inspired by the 2010 SLS AMG, and by smoking: it's hard to describe how jet-set the latest Cigarette racing boat will seem, once it hits the water next February.

Missing only Cary Grant and Grace Kelly as jewel thieves, the latest custom Cigarette Racing boat takes a turn at the waves on February 11 at the Miami boat show. MotorAuthority's angle? The new boat wears Benz livery and will sport more than a hundred changes to give it an AMG veneer.

Among them: lightweight design in the boat's hull, a "fast and smooth ride" enabled by hull sculpting, and other touches to the boat's electronics, paint and powertrain. In all, the boat will hit a top speed higher than 120 mph, which makes it the slowest AMG in memory--but it does it on the water, which probably makes it the most watertight AMG in memory.

There's more for hydrophiles over at the Cigarette Racing site; we'll post more pictures when they surface.





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  1. By bepsf Posted: 12/16/2009 3:02pm PST

    "Missing only Cary Grant and Grace Kelly as jewel thieves..."
    Oh Marty - You need to spend more time watching TCM...
    Cary Grant portrayed a FORMER jewel thief, and Grace Kelly who was the daughter of one of the victims wasn't even on the boat!
    The young lady on the boat who was the jewel thief was played by Brigitte Auber - and the boat in question was not a cigarette boat (a type of boat which didn't even exist until the 1980's) but a cabin cruiser!
     
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  2. By Marty Posted: 12/16/2009 3:07pm PST

    If I recall, he was trying to line up another heist. Therefore she's an accomplice, at least under Georgia law, where we execute. A lot. I will confess to watching the whole movie in a bar in New Orleans. Interpret freely from there.
     
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  3. By bepsf Posted: 12/16/2009 3:56pm PST

    "If I recall, he was trying to line up another heist."
    Marty -
    He was being hounded by the police and his old friends from the French Resistance as they believed he had come out of retirement to commit thefts again - so in order to clear his name he faked lining up another heist (in cahoots w/ the insurance people from Lloyds and Grace Kelly's mother) to figure out who the REAL cat burglar was - as it turned out, the daughter of one of his French Resistance friends and the young blond lady driving the motorboat.
     
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  4. By bepsf Posted: 12/16/2009 4:14pm PST

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048728/synopsis
     
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  5. By  blank blueray Posted: 12/16/2009 6:58pm PST

    I can't imagine M-B makes an engine, even AMG, that's powerful enough for this boat. They usually run twin supercharged big blocks, IIRC.
     
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  6. fb_100000275684479 avatar Michael Escobar Posted: 12/18/2009 4:29am PST

    120mph? Damn, that's fast for a boat! My dad's buddy had a big block Mopar powered cigarette boat back in the days of disco and they once raced a Mustang Mach 1 on the Potomac (the Mach 1 was obviously on the GW Parkway that runs parallel to the river). The boat won, even after throttling back due to the hull slapping the water around 70mph! This article has got me dreaming of the sound of dual, un-muffled, twin turbo AMG 65 V12s screaming along at 120! Epic! Too bad it'll probably have boring BBCs like blank blueray said.
     
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  7. By  Boat Trader Posted: 12/29/2009 8:12pm PST

    Benz and Cigarette racing. Wonder what the price tag will be on this bad boy?
     
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  8. By  r4 Posted: 1/7/2010 1:31am PST

    Hi,
    I agree, typically these things have crazy big engines. To go 120 MPH I would expect it needs 2 1000 HP engines or more.
     
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