- mercedes-amg will roll out a new cigarette boat at the miami boat show later this week.
- we surmise it will have mercury racing power, like other gas-powered amg boats since 2007.
- a look at this teaser image tells us it has at least a thematic resemblance to the mercedes g-wagen.
mercedes-amg and cigarette racing are at it again. these international horsepower fiends are collaborating on another nautical project, set to make its debut this week at the 2020 miami boat show. based on the teaser image above, released by cigarette on social media today, we can conclude a couple of things about the latest amg boat: it'll be a center console, and it'll have some thematic relevance to the g-wagen. and, based on prior boats, we can make a few other informed predictions, too.
for one thing, it'll have mercury racing power. what makes us think so? well, because every other gas-powered amg boat since 2007 used either a set of outboards or a pair of mercury racing's thoroughly insane dohc 9.0-liter twin-turbo v8s, a modest engine that's available in tunes ranging from 1100 to 1750 horsepower. the one boat that actually packed amg power was the cigarette amg electric drive, which used six electric motors from the sls amg electric drive.
since the new boat is a center console, it would likely be powered by outboards—but not necessarily. the 41' sd gt3, the amg center console from 2017, was powered by 1,100-horsepower stern drives. which presented its own unique engineering challenges, since center console tops don't typically have to cope with the aerodynamic stresses of a 100-mph top speed.
as for the boat's size, there's a big clue there in the teaser image: the three windows along the side of the hull, just below the console. cigarette only makes one boat with those three widows, and it's the 59-foot tirranna. the company debuted that boat last year with six mercury racing 400r outboards, good for a 72-mph top speed. perhaps an amg boat warrants a horsepower upgrade? we'll find out on thursday.
