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General Marine was looking for investment partners for Century and agreed to use Yamaha outboards. In 1995 Century was purchased by Yamaha, which had purchased Cobia Boats a few months earlier; the new company was called C&C Boats. Yamaha sold Cobia in March 2005 and stated it would concentrate on the "one brand, one vision" concept.
Ford and Yamaha also developed the Zetec-SE branded 4-cylinder engines used in several Ford cars like the small sports car Ford Puma. From 2005 to 2010, Yamaha produced a 4.4 Litre V8 for Volvo . The B8444S engines were used in the XC90 and S80 models, whilst also adapted to 5.0L configuration for Volvo's foray into the V8 Supercars with the S60 .
The Waterman outboard engine appears to be the first gasoline-powered outboard offered for sale in significant numbers. [11] It was developed from 1903 in Grosse Ile, Michigan, with a patent application filed in 1905 [ 12 ] Starting in 1906, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] the company went on to make thousands of his "Porto-Motor" [ 15 ] units, [ 16 ] claiming ...
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The panga is a type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia. The original panga design was developed by Yamaha as part of a World Bank project circa 1970.
All outboard engines sold in North America by the now-defunct Nissan Marine were rebadged Tohatsus. [ 13 ] Tohatsu four stroke outboard engines above 50 HP sold in North America after 2013 are rebadged Honda, though at some point after that Tohatsu introduced their own 60 HP model which is an up-rated variant of their 40/50 HP engine.