The First Lamborghini Yacht Has Arrived in the US

The primary Lamborghini yacht has arrived in North America. In 2020, the Italian supercar producer introduced a partnership with Italian superboat producer Tecnomar to provide a restricted run of luxurious yachts for the worldwide market. Now, the primary of those completed boats within the US is ready for its premiere buyer at a dock in South Florida. 

Dubbed Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63, its identify carries a wide range of totally different connotations: The boat is 63 ft lengthy, it has a high pace of 63 knots (which interprets to round 72 mph on land), and solely 63 of them are being constructed. This quantity isn’t random although—it’s an easter egg of kinds, pointing to the 12 months 1963, when Ferruccio Lamborghini based his namesake automotive firm. Every of the roughly 5 dozen yachts has a beginning worth of round $3.5 million—and that is earlier than the inevitable optioning-up with customized colours, supplies, trim, and different individuated prospers. Delivered by way of Miami-based Status Marine, the dealership tells AD that extra Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63s are on the best way. 

In fact, it’s the boat’s signature Lamborghini design parts that really stand out. Aboard the luxurious vessel, you’ll discover hexagonal patterns on the inside and exterior, Y-shaped headlamps from the marque’s Sián supercar, a jet-fighter-like cockpit, a pair of racing-inspired seats on the helm, and, in fact, V-12 energy. Nevertheless, in contrast to any manufacturing Lamborghini supercar, the Techomar options two of those motors, every of which runs on diesel gasoline, and produces round 2,000 horsepower.

This isn’t the primary foray into the nautical realm for Lamborghini. In 1968, 5 years after the founding of his eponymous automotive firm, Ferruccio Lamborghini commissioned a wood boat from famed Italian shipbuilder Riva and geared up it with a pair of 4.0-liter V-12 engines from his signature sports activities automobiles. Later, the marque produced an outrageously potent 7.2-liter V-12 marine engine to be used in powerboats. Within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties, this motor was sometimes shoehorned into the model’s equally outrageous LM002, an absurd super-SUV produced in restricted numbers, which acted because the precursor to the model’s present best-seller, the Urus SUV.

The Lamborghini-Tecnomar yacht joins different comparable, restricted version, high-end boats produced by unique automakers, together with Aston Martin, and Mercedes-Benz’s go-fast subsidiary, AMG. These ships are half of a bigger initiative amongst luxurious carmakers to create branded life-style experiences in all places their prospects might need to be, together with the creation of residential towers by the likes of Aston Martin, Bentley, Porsche, in addition to homewares and furnishings from Bugatti and a full line of trend clothes and accessories from Ferrari.