Have you seen the fuel economy specs on those motors? There is a sheet on the evinrude website that shows dozens of boat setups, singles, twins, triples, big boats and small boats and t gives the performance specs. They are almost to good to be true plus your first service isn't until 500 hours.
I buy, sell and restore boats. To me the numbers are a no brainer but trying to convince a customer to go evinrude is almost impossible. It will take a few years of sales of these motors before customer loyalty is there.
It's unfortunate that the evinrude name is tarnished and people don't realize it's a good product and here's how the name went for **** and why people need to know that it's a different motor now....
Fact - evinrude invented the outboard and was an industry leader.
Others came along and made competition and sales fell for evinrude over the years.
Lost revenue meant evinrude wasn't retooling enough and so their fit and finish became the downfall of their motor and eventually led to their bankruptcy. The engine was good, the build was poor.
Enter bombardier .
They bought evinrude and retooled , making the evinrude better again.
There's nothing worse than an evinrude fitcht (except the force outboards) , but.... if the fitcht motor has a BRP emblem on the back, it's a whole other animal and is not the lemon that the old fitcht motors were.
Still, I can't buy those motors because my customers won't buy a boat with them on it.
The new new new evinrude is the first 100% design of bombardier and only carries the evinrude sticker, that's all that the motor shares with the old company
