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Written by Peter Hunter
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
Giz Mag announces new PWC player entering world market
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http://www.gizmag.com.au/the-400-horsepower-pwc-cometh/8555/
December 21, 2007 The Personal Watercraft (PWC) market is in the grip of a horsepower “arms race” with a rash of new machinery announcements including a 342 bhp 2.2 litre V6-engined PWC from Austrian company HSR-Benelli and a 308 bhp 2.2 litre V8-engined PWC from the famous Italian MV Agusta motorcycle company.
It all appears to have been catalyzed late last year when Kawasaki announced its 250 bhp Ultra 250X into a market where Seadoo’s 215 bhp RXP was previously the fastest of the bunch. Subsequently, SeaDoo has announced 255 bhp RXP-X and RXT-X models, Honda has announced a turbocharged 1500cc Aquatrax and Yamaha has announced a new lightweight purpose-built, turbocharged and intercooled 1812cc Super High Output (SHO) motor in its 2008 range. Given the radical upsurge in power outputs, one wonders what might be available a year or two from now.
Until Kawasaki announced its Ultra 250X last year, the most powerful standard PWC available was Seadoo’s 215 bhp RXP and a gentleman’s agreement with the US Coast Guard by all manufacturers meant that no stock PWC could exceed 65mph.
It all sounds like a remake of the motorcycle horsepower wars of the seventies and eighties which were catalyzed by Kawasaki with the release of the 82 bhp 900cc Z1 in 1973 – a landmark motorcycle with significantly more power than anything that had existed before.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 January 2008 )
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