Boats

Lexus has been dropping hints about entering the private yacht game over the past couple of years and on Friday it finally confirmed it with the reveal of the LY 650, a 65-foot luxury yacht billed as the automaker's fourth flagship. The others are the LC coupe, LS sedan and LX SUV. The LY 650...

Prodrive, the Britain-based company known for building race cars and most recently supporting Subaru's record-setting run up the Transfăgărășan highway, has aquatic plans in its future. The company's boss, David Richards, wants to build an amphibious car. Richards said...

Toyota is one of a few major automakers that has thrown its weight behind hydrogen as a future fuel source, and the Japanese firm is taking its learnings around the globe and to the open seas. Toyota announced last week that it will support the Energy Observer, a hydrogen-powered autonomous boat...

Breaking a speed record on land is a remarkable achievement. Breaking a speed record on water ups the ante more than a few notches because it introduces a number of dangerous factors and water adds immense drag. Jaguar has just added a maritime speed record to its resume with an electric boat...

Anyone can drive a boat. Out on the open sea, you throttle up and keep the bow pointed along a given heading. Hopefully, you'll arrive at your destination with enough time left for a dock-side drink and congenial chitchat with your fellow water lovers. The hard part of the journey, however, occurs...

Aston Martin is taking its design and engineering to the open waters. The British luxury marque announced Wednesday it has completed the design for a submersible vehicle. The submersible, called Project Neptune, will be built with Triton Submarines. The two companies have worked together since last...

Last year, Porsche Design created an impressively styled yacht for ship builder Dynamiq. The 115-foot GTT tugged at the wallets and hearts of the Monaco jet set. NowDynamiq has gone bigger. Allow us to introduce you to the GTT 165. Besides it's stand-out styling, the Dynamiq GTT 165 is special...

In January 2017, luxury automaker Lexus dipped its toe into the waters of the luxury yacht world. The Lexus Sport Yacht concept racked up accolades in the boating world, not to mention hand-raising amongst the well-heeled who could afford to purchase such a machine. The concept boat was just that...

Mercedes-AMG's Project One hypercar, which is set to transition from concept to production this year, has served as the inspiration for the latest speedboat from AMG's partner on the seas, Cigarette Racing. The Miami-Dade County-based company used this week's 2018 Miami International Boat Show to...

Looking for a car-themed vacation? Look no further. No only does this Norwegian cruise ship whisk its passengers to the wide open sea, but it offers solace for those who can't go a day without a bit of motorsport by housing a Ferrari F1 inspired go-kart track on the top deck. Yes, you can race...

The folks at Florida's Cigarette Racing build some of the coolest-looking speedboats in the business, and the coolest of them all is the Marauder series. Stretching 51 feet and 7 inches in length, these come with not one but two top-of-the-line Mercury Racing V-8 engines delivering a combined 3,100...

Many luxury car owners also love aquatic motoring, er, boating. Actually, it's probably fair to say that they prefer the term "yachting," depending on what size craft they pilot around their local river, sound, lake, sea, or ocean. Automakers like Mercedes-Benz and Aston Martin understand this...

Mercedes-Benz has dropped the anchor on a new concept—only it isn't meant to storm an autobahn. The Arrow460-Granturismo, which is referred to as the "Silver Arrow of the Seas" and developed by Mercedes-Benz Style, the design consulting division of the German automaker, is a 46-foot...

If 007 needs to hit the water in the next James Bond movie, don’t be surprised if he does so in the new AM37 from Quintessence Yachts. The company recently enlisted the help of the Aston Martin’s new consulting business to develop a yacht inspired by the historic British sports car...

Now that he’s no longer trying to start his own automaker, Henrik Fisker is back doing what he does best: designing things. Recently, he’s been designing coachbuilt cars for the likes of Galpin and VLF. Now it’s been revealed Fisker has designed a luxury yacht for Italy’s...

Florida’s Cigarette Racing, manufacturer of some of the world’s fastest boats, has revealed a new racing boat inspired by the Mercedes-AMG GT3 race car. This is the sixth-consecutive year of the partnership between Cigarette Racing and Mercedes-AMG, and the duo’s latest creation...

Legendary yacht builder Palmer Johnson, whose creations are known for their speed and luxury, with some even ending up in the hands of royalty, plans to build a range of yachts featuring distinctive design elements and advanced materials similar to those used in Bugatti’s supercars. ALSO SEE...

If you're a Mercedes-Benz fan, you'd be forgiven for thinking that if an AMG product winds up in the drink, something has gone terribly wrong. But the three-pointed star's tuning wing has a history of working with uber-boat manufacturer Cigarette Racing, and over the years the partnership has...

If there's one thing more satisfying than a Rolls-Royce car, it's a Rolls-Royce engine. A Merlin engine, specifically, of the sort that once powered Spitfires, Hawker Hurricanes and all manner of other fighter aircraft and bombers during the second World War. ALSO SEE: 2015 Audi A7 And S7 Preview...

Florida’s Cigarette Racing is back with a new speed boat concept inspired by a Mercedes-Benz model, in this case the stunning AMG Vision Gran Turismo supercar concept unveiled last year. The boat is called the Cigarette Racing 50' Vision concept and it is being shown for the first time at the...