Boats
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A company called Floating Motors wants to build boats with classic car designs.
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Remember the Hydrocar? It still exists and it's for sale
The Hydrocar amphibious car with a 762-hp Chevy V-8 heads to the Barrett-Jackson auction block.
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Ferrari's record-breaking V-12-powered race boat is for sale
Back in the 1950s, Ferrari was chasing speed records on water with the Arno XI.
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A 2-rotor, 11.6-liter rotary diesel engine was almost a thing
A rotary engine with over 1,000 horsepower was designed for marine applications but the idea never took off.
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Lamborghini yacht is the supercar of the seas
Lamborghini has teamed up with the Italian Sea Group to launch a yacht inspired by supercars. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2021. The new yacht is called Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63, in reference to the automaker's 1963 founding, and it borrows styling elements from a number Lamborghini...
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Cigarette Racing's new AMG-inspired boat has 6 engines and 2,700 horsepower
Mercedes-AMG and Cigarette Racing are back with a new performance-oriented boat—one capable of reaching 80 mph.
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Bugatti designer Etienne Salomé is lending his name—and expertise—to a new yacht company. The company is Salomé Yachts, and its first creation is the Atlantic, named for the classic Bugatti coupe of the same name. The Atlantic is very much a toy rather than a practical watercraft. Per the company's press release, the $1.77 million, 36-footer fits nine (though we're not entirely certain where) and boasts a 14-speaker sound system. Pleasure cruiser? You betcha. While it lacks the punch of a modern Bugatti engine, the Atlantic's twin Volvo Penta D6-440 engines combine...
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The outrageous Lexus LY 650 yacht will retail for $3.74 million
The Lexus LY 650 yacht starts at $3.74 million and buyers can option it up to $4.85 million.
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Wisconsin's Marquis Yachts provides look at Lexus LY 650 production
Lexus is expanding into the world of luxury yachts and the first is due out in late 2019.
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65-foot yacht unveiled as latest Lexus flagship
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...
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Prodrive chief wants to build an amphibious car
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...
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Toyota supports hydrogen-powered autonomous boat
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...
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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. Jaguar Vector Racing set its record by running two ways on the 1-kilometer "course" of the Coniston Water in England, the team announced Friday. The old record of 76.8 mph was set back in 2008. Now the record owned by Jaguar Vector Racing stands at 88.61 mph. Team co-found Peter Dredge was at the helm...
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Volvo has created self-docking boat tech
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...
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BMW supporting one-man, around-the-world yacht race
BMW is taking to the world's oceans to support the sailor Boris Herrmann on a trip around the globe. Herrmann will solo-pilot the Malizia in the Vendée Globe yacht race. The global race will kick off in 2020, and BMW is providing technical and engineering support for Herrmann and the Malizia...
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Holy Neptune: Aston Martin has designed a submarine
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...
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Dynamiq is back with another super yacht: GTT 165
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...
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Lexus plans to put a yacht into production
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...
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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 present the 515 Project One based on the flagship Marauder series of boats. The Project One is destined to be AMG's fastest car, so naturally the boat inspired by it should be Cigarette Racing's fastest too. Like most Marauders, the 515 Project One stretches over 50 feet in length (51 feet and 5...
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This cruise ship has a Ferrari go-kart track on its top deck
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...
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Bugatti Chiron-inspired yacht has Jacuzzi, champagne bar and even a fire pit
Every good piece of ultra-exotic automotive machinery needs a matching boat. This is how you manage to separate the wealthy pretenders from the actually mega-rich spenders. Lots of folks can plunk down the change for the latest hypercar. Far fewer can also drop the massive amounts of money required...
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Cigarette Racing celebrates Mercedes-AMG’s 50th with GT R-inspired speedboat
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...
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Lexus brings its luxury lifestyle to the water with Sport Yacht concept
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...
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Mercedes tests waters with new yacht concept
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...
Andrew Ganz