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<blockquote data-quote="turbotodd" data-source="post: 463639" data-attributes="member: 7376"><p>Mercury never build ALL their own powerheads for years. Yamaha built several Mariner (which is part of Brunswick-which is the parent company of Mercury, so merc and mariner are one in the same basically) outboards. I remember the 40's back in the 80's were Yamaha outboards re-badged and painted to look like mariners. Good motors too, for the most part. Merc small outboards to this day are built by Tohatsu (up to I think 30hp). Then, Merc had a partnership to build some powerhead parts for Yamaha's old school 25hp 4 stroke outboards, and it certainly showed. They were good motors but you knew they had mercury in 'em. They abandoned that and the new powerhead for the 25hp is 100% yamaha designed, EFI and all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="turbotodd, post: 463639, member: 7376"] Mercury never build ALL their own powerheads for years. Yamaha built several Mariner (which is part of Brunswick-which is the parent company of Mercury, so merc and mariner are one in the same basically) outboards. I remember the 40's back in the 80's were Yamaha outboards re-badged and painted to look like mariners. Good motors too, for the most part. Merc small outboards to this day are built by Tohatsu (up to I think 30hp). Then, Merc had a partnership to build some powerhead parts for Yamaha's old school 25hp 4 stroke outboards, and it certainly showed. They were good motors but you knew they had mercury in 'em. They abandoned that and the new powerhead for the 25hp is 100% yamaha designed, EFI and all. [/QUOTE]
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