Boats
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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, which is why they've created a few maritime concepts recently. Now Lexus is getting its feet wet with a brand new boat it's calling the Sport Yacht Concept. Toyota has a Marine Department already, and it produces sports fishing boats, cruisers, and other crafts for those who love the open water. Now...
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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...
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Aston Martin-inspired luxury yacht ready to hit the water
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...
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Italy’s Benetti unveils Henrik Fisker-designed luxury yacht
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...
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Toyota unveils boat with multi-material construction
Toyota is a powerhouse in the auto industry but its manufacturing capabilities stretch well beyond cars. Toyota also has a nautical department that has been building a range of boats for several years, mainly aluminum-hulled models equipped with engines borrowed from some of the firm’s cars...
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Cigarette Racing Out With New Boat Inspired By The Mercedes-AMG GT3
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...
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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: Porsche To Build Mission E Electric Super Sedan: Official Bugatti founder Ettore Bugatti had developed racing yachts back in the 1930s and often gave them names close to his heart, and in keeping with this tradition Palmer Johnson has applied the Niniette name to the new line of Bugatti-inspired...
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Mercedes-AMG And Cigarette Racing Partnership Makes For Smoking Hot Boat
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...
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New Aeroboat Revealed With Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12
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...
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Meet Cigarette Racing’s New Speed Boat Inspired By The Mercedes AMG Vision GT
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...
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MINI Turns Its Cooper Convertible Into A Boat
To help celebrate the 75th running of the largest inter-collegiate regatta in North America, the 2013 Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia, MINI is taking to the water itself but not with its own rowing team. Instead, MINI has unveiled a seafaring version of its Cooper Convertible, which comes...
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World’s Fastest Electric Boat Inspired By The Mercedes SLS AMG Electric Drive
Everyone knows electricity and water don’t mix, but with the latest creation from Cigarette Racing, a world renowned manufacturer of powered boats based in Miami-Dade County, Florida, nothing could be further from the truth. At the Miami International Boat Show this week, Cigarette Racing...
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Custom boat builder and racer Cigarette Racing, based in Miami-Dade County, Florida, is set to debut a new version of its signature performance boats, the 42-foot Huntress. Why are we reporting on a boat? Because, like its previous 46-foot Rider XP and 50-foot Marauder, the design of Cigarette Racing’s new Huntress has been inspired by a vehicle from the Mercedes-Benz AMG lineup. After first looking at the SLS AMG and C63 AMG Coupe, Cigarette Racing turned to the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG for inspiration for its latest boat. In particular, the design goal for the Huntress was to combine...
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Mercedes-Benz Pushes The Design Envelope--For Motor Yachts
Those familiar with the Mercedes-Benz three-pointed-star logo will know that the points of the star represent excellence on land, sea and air. Mercedes-Benz has long been dominant on land, and the brand was known for its aircraft engines in the early part of the 20th century. Gottlieb Daimler once...
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Photo Update: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Inspired Cigarette Boat
Cigarette Racing's custom AMG 46' Rider would be pretty awesome in its own right even if it weren't inspired by the SLS AMG. Twin-turbo 552 cubic-inch Mercury racing engines cranking out 1,350 horsepower each have a tendency to imbue awesome on things. The knife-edge boat is capable of over 130 mph...
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Buy One Ultra-Rare Yacht, Get One Equally Rare Supercar--Free!
That's right - shell out £17million (almost $24.5 million) and you can glide into the sunset in this beautiful, luxurious, 122-ft super-yacht. As an incentive, Strand Craft is offering an equally extravagant supercar to go with your new vessel. If you have the cash, and like the idea of...
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2,700-HP Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG-Inspired Cigarette Boat Unveiled
The newest creation from AMG is not for the road, but it'll rip up the open water.
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Smoke on the water: 2010 Benz SLS AMG inspires Cigarette Racing boat
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...
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Former Spyker designer Maarten de Bruijn may have left the Dutch sports carmaker a number of years ago, but his passion for cars wasn't forgotten when he started his next venture specializing in luxury boats. Now, Silvestris Haute Motive Concepts, a pun on the design links to luxury cars that the boats have been constructed with, has unveiled its first product, the handsome 23 foot Silvestris Sports Cabriolet. While most boats don't have a Cabriolet designation in their name, the Silvestris uses the company's 'Aquamotive' design language as its main source of inspiration. Hence, the two-seat...
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Biocat racing boat inspired by the R8
This oddly designed catamaran is the creation of Swedish design and engineering firm Vizualtech, which was contacted by a customer from Dubai who was seeking a new design for a race boat. Starting with an R8 as its inspiration, Vizualtech set about creating what it is now named the Biocat R8 racing...
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Boat with Ferrari F430 power breaks two world records
A Granturismo boat powered by a Ferrari [NYSE:RACE] F430 V8 engine has established two new world water speed records on Lake Como in Italy. At the helm was Eugenio Molinari, who navigated the boat in two separate categories, managing the fastest average speeds for the running kilometer both times...
James Martinez