The Boat in Front ......... is a Toyota

[DIW]

Hard to tell from Pic on MBM News page but first impressions ........... stick to Vehicle Design !!!

 

[scoffey]

The boat in front is...a Toyota

Here's the link for the story for anyone that missed it

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

They obviously think its a minger too judging by the fact they're only aiming for 15 sales a year! I suspect it'll sell to people who don't have any taste like people who buy Lexus cars

 

[davidej]

I have always thought The car in front is a Toyota is c**p strapline.

It usually is - a Micra or Avensis being driven by a dodderer at 25MPH. Any decent car has pulled well away !

 

[DIW]

They obviously think its a minger too judging by the fact they're only aiming for 15 sales a year! I suspect it'll sell to people who don't have any taste like people who buy Lexus cars

+1

 

[Rum_Pirate]

I have always disliked the appearance of that bonding between hull and deck, and stern.

Reminds me of cheap blown plastic toys and 'Made in Hong Kong' of many years ago.

Uugh!

 

[Renegade_Master]

a flybridge with screen and wipers, erm... not such a bad idea pity about the design

 

[cadser]

Sink it comes to mind

 

[hector]

They obviously think its a minger too judging by the fact they're only aiming for 15 sales a year! I suspect it'll sell to people who don't have any taste like people who buy Lexus cars

I have a lexus 450, much better than the flash German **** folks like to pose in!! ( and yes I've had a few of those)

 

[Ripster]

a flybridge with screen and wipers, erm... not such a bad idea pity about the design

Really.... the attractive bit about having a FB (IMO) is that it gives the option get the "open air" boat experience and fantastic open view. If I want a screen, roof and wipers I'll go to the cabin below.

 

[aquapower]

It should at least be reliable and well built

 

[darren_v8]

I have always thought The car in front is a Toyota is c**p strapline.

It usually is - a Micra or Avensis being driven by a dodderer at 25MPH. Any decent car has pulled well away !

An Avensis is a Toyota I used to own a Celica, that was in front and further away, but now I've got the Chevy it would be well and truly in the rear view mirror.

Personally, I think if they ditched the flybridge it would be a good looking boat. Don't quite get why they're calling it a 35 when it's a 39 foot boat?

 

[Nick_H]

Well i'm truly baffled, why on earth is the world's second biggest car maker piddling about making 15 bottom end flybridges a year?

answers on a postcard

 

[darren_v8]

Maybe they're testing the water

At the end of the day, they have good engines, so why not see what else they can put them in. I agree Toyota are more of a car manufacturer than engine manufacturer (like Honda and Yamaha), but maybe theyre just looking to expand in the boating direction and this is a test product?

 

[Firefly625]

Hard to tell from Pic on MBM News page but first impressions ........... stick to Vehicle Design !!!

...perhaps they are getting irritated that their smaller nemesis have made a plane...

 

[Nautibusiness]

They have been making boats for about 14 or so years. Generally aimed a little more at the angling market and not across Europe.

That 35' is aimed as a cross over between angling and cruising, but is a little confused.
The flybridge is a little futuristic, but it's basic layout is aimed very much for big game fishing, not sunbathing, yet the transom and bathing platform are not designed with battling big fish in mind.

Personally, I don't think that this boat is niether here nor there as a fisher / cruiser, but as mentioned by someone else...
...take that flybridge off and continue that line with a hardtop, maybe with a big glass sliding roof and I reckon you have quite nice, modern, clean looking coupe.

 

[DIW]

Personally, I think if they ditched the flybridge it would be a good looking boat. Don't quite get why they're calling it a 35 when it's a 39 foot boat?[/QUOTE]

I agree but that would probably mean major reworking of the moulds etc.
A Skipper said to me 'Your first look at a boat and the visual impression it gives you is the most important , if you love the way it looks great, if you don't, walk away, because no matter how hard you try you won't ever get to like it'
Could be the case here with that flybridge.

 

[planteater]

Well i'm truly baffled, why on earth is the world's second biggest car maker piddling about making 15 bottom end flybridges a year?

'cos thats about how many they are likely to sell! Unless they are seriously well priced.

 

[Firefly625]

I was thinking about this over the weekend, and it struck me how very odd it is that a company like Toyota chose to totally ignore hybrid technology for their first ever big boat....

 

[darren_v8]

In the car it works by generating electricity while breaking, so you recoupe some of the energy used to accelerate the car when slowing down. To have a hybrid system on a boat, where there are no brakes, you'd either have to get the energy from a pretty meaty wind generator or, less likely, solar panel. I can't see them using any prop or underwater harvesting systems as this would cause too much drag and kill the standard economy of the boat, which would render the whole system useless.