Verado, what next?

[orca]

I wonder if Merc have any other plans for their verado line, most of the bigger four stroke motors are handed down from automotive lines, The Hondas come from their Civic and Accord cars, the 115 Yam/Merc I believe is a Ford product, I wonder if Merc have plans to make the Verado available in the automotive field, It is a unique motor, in line 6 supercharged. Or maybe Mercruiser will bolt it onto a sterndrive leg.

 

[phatmanmike]

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115 Yam/Merc I believe is a Ford product

huh?

 

[mattttt25]

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just noticed this weekend that the verado line was now availble in the midrange engines. so that's what they are probably focusing on.

 

[whofan]

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Ford went to Yamaha to build the engine for the Taurus SHO years back. I doubt very much if yamaha would go to Ford for a marine engine. Its not impossible given the collaboration theyve had in the past. <br /> GM went to Mercury to build a engine for the ZR1 Corvette also.<br /> Anyone who knows more of this please reply!

 

[orca]

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Mypotboards, Forgive me if I am wrong, however I think that the 115HP 4 Stroke is the same motor as fitted to the european Ford Mondao, however Yam may have made it for Ford, I had'nt considered that.<br />Oberboat, Yes GM did get Merc to assemble the motor for the corvette, Merc have a good short run assembly line, it is just not economical for a firm like GM to do these short runs.

 

[Dunaruna]

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When I started reading this thread I thought it was a joke, Are you serious whaley? Got any links?

 

[moderator1]

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Chevy used Merc's technology to develope a BLOCK from aluminum for the Vette...GM assembled the engine, just weren't set-up to run aluminum blocks through the manufacturing process.<br />The True casting of the aluminum block is all that Merc done for GM.

 

[jim dozier]

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Just to further confuse the issue, when Ford went to Yamaha for help with the Taurus SHO, Yamaha provided the cylinder head only, not the whole engine. Yamaha recast the cylinder head with different ports, valves, and combustion chamber to get more power. The engine block was the same as standard Taurus. Theres a lot of this going on. Ford has a piece of Mazda and Jaguar (or at least they did for awhile) Jaguar owns Aston Martin. GM owns Saab. Chysler owns a chunk of Mitsubishi, but Mercedes owns Chrysler. The Iranians are currently trying to purchase Land Rover (seriously).<br /><br />My predictions, Toyota buys out the remnants of GM in 2010. BMW combines with Ford. Honda buys out Boeing and takes back market share from Airbus. All of which will be manufactured and assembled in mainland China.