Mercury Marine’s new 600 hp V-12 Verado, launched on Tuesday from its famed Lake X research facility in Florida, promises to rewrite boat design for leading US yacht brands. For a half-dozen new ...

Ah, the freedom of boating. Getting out on the water with a couple of pals, wind whipping against your faces as you crank up that roaring V12. Oh, you don’t have a V12 outboard on your boat? Mercury ...

"It's a work of art!" exclaimed Jeff Johnson of JMS Racing Engines. His family's long-running machine shop in El Monte, California, was tasked with the rebuild of a rare V-12 from a 1934 Packard ...

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Packard was a luxury American automaker, and the brand's bread-and-butter was producing exclusive motorcars for the wealthy, including the first-ever V12-powered production car in 1915. However, ...

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LAKE X, FLORIDA — Every so often, an innovation comes along that changes an industry forever. Mercury Marine’s newly launched 7.6-liter V12 600-horsepower Verado outboard engine is one of those ...