G2 Evinrude

[Terry England]

Originally Posted by Jeff79Sceptre

I don't know about y'all but that thing is hideous. It looks like it belongs on some experimental boat. I hope at least it's fast! I say they bring back the V8....

I know how you feel. I felt the same way when Mercury Hurricanes were green and had fins and then they came out with the white ones that leaned forward and they were just too modern looking! But they did have a neutral and reverse.
OMC came out with a V-4 50 Hp that had fake exhaust ports like a Buick Roadmaster, so it was cool look'in but it had a toothed belt driven distributor so if you cavitated them and they over rev'd you would throw the belt off. Not an ideal engineering set-up, but they had those cool exhaust ports to look at while you were git'in towed in. The Homelite Bearcats scared all us old guys away from 4S, because the oil fell out the bottom seal on the Crosleys. (well except GFS who's look'in for a couple of low hour ones for the 21) Jeff, we is always on the cutt'in edge of technology. However, over the decades, Engine Designers and Marketing Gurus when forced to work together have been known to scrape the "guard rail" on the Learning Curve of Style, try'in to get to the summit of "Form Follows Function".