The recent news about the Aston Martin-inspired Voyage luxury boat brought to mind another superboat. The Voyage, the designer admits, is a purely conceptual exercise at this point. However, the ZR48 superboat was built without much fanfare but continues to awe throughout the boating community.Taking after the ZR-1 Corvette, this 48-foot boat has a carbon fiber hull with Corvette styling cues that can be seen in the headlights, tail lights, and marker lights. The entire interior is not only Corvette-inspired but actually outfitted with a dash that contains Corvette gauges, and a ZR1 steering wheel. The shifter linkage controls both engines, which are the heart of this superboat.
At the stern resides two Mercury Racing model 1350 engines, with, you guessed it, 1350 horsepower each, for a total of 2,700 horsepower. This engine is built to order and is a V8 configuration with twin-cam heads and one turbo per bank with a charge cooler. Displacement is 9 liters, with peak hp being achieved at 6,500 rpm. If you need to ask, the retail price for these engines is $200,000 - each.
Horsepower calculations place the top speed of this boat at 180 mph. Evidently, you have to choose the optimum conditions before you run this boat at wide open throttle. But the exhilaration, and acceleration, one must feel when you give the engines free reign must be indescribable.
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