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He asks our opinion on Seven Marine
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See, personally, I am a giant fan of Seven Marine. I also don't know a whole lot about their story
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I don't know how they came up. I don't know why Volvopena discontinued them
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Did they have problems? I love them because I like Chevy, and they're LS's and they're freaking cool
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I mean, simple as that for me. But do you know anything about
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I don't know a whole lot about them. I know that just like, you know, I mean, when they came out, it was a $100,000 outboard
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So, you know, they weren't like, yeah, they were expensive. I mean, I'm not sure it's $100,000
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But it was. Well, I mean, look, it was super expensive. 627 horse
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Yeah. Whereas now a V12 making $600 is how much of almost $100,000, right
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It's close to it, yeah. Close to it. I mean, I want to say it's $600, you can get them like 80, something like that
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That's not bad. Maybe $75. I'm not 100. That's not bad. He's been $100,000
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$80,000. For a V12? $80,000. Where are you going to buy a V12 for any less than
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Do you have sitting around No But I putting myself in the shoes of the rich man I going to be like man that a bargain Like I was thinking about buying a Lamborghini event door and getting a V12
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but you're telling me I could spend like $900,000 less and just put it on a boat
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Well, now you got to buy the boat. Now we're getting back into the normal V12 price points. Yep
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Oh, man. for what it is, I think it's pretty reasonable. Pretty reasonable
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No, I didn't. Spending 100 grand on a V8 sitting horizontally in an outboard
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It's insane. No, they, they, I never really got to play around with them
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I know someone about them. I've got a few buddies in mine that worked for Volvo dealerships
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And so they went to, you know, when Volvo bought seven, they went to a lot of the training and dealerships and stuff like that
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And so, you know, I know based on talking to him, somewhat about them but not I don't know a whole lot about them and then you know once
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Volvo bought them it wasn't a few years later that they they shut the whole project down so
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why they shut it down I don know I mean I know I did read somewhere that Volvo put out some kind of like press release or something talking about you know moving towards electric and inboards and all this other stuff So I mean did that play a factor in it or is there something behind the scenes that I don that we don know about probably
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But I think I remember seeing something about them talking about focusing on electric and really going in, you know, putting more effort into that
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So it might have been an expensive project to run. I mean, again, you're talking the high end
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Like that is a high end market. Yeah, it's a very niche buyer
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Yeah. Yeah. You're talking about the 10, 5, maybe probably the 1%
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I mean, I don't know about the 1%. Maybe at least the top 10, 5% of boating, like boaters, you know, are in the market for a six-figure outboard
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Yeah. Yeah, I wonder how they did. Were they fuel efficient? Were they..
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I don't think they were that fuel... They must have not been... I mean, come on, dude. They must have not been good for anything other than being freaking cool
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Yeah. Because, yeah, I guess... How long did they make it? A couple years, a few years
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Quite a few years. I mean, maybe almost 10. I don't know
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It not terrible I don know if there actually There probably There a few of them lying around Ten years but See I want to know I want to know if you could buy one like a used one
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Rip it out. Founded in 2010, so 12 years, 13 years? They had like a 12-year run
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Okay. I ain't bad. It's an LS. Yeah. It's the same engine's in your truck
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That's so weird to me. You just take that... Boom. Mm-hmm. Sideway or horizontal
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It's some of the Honda's though It's just not thing I think that Honda
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Isn't that The Civic or Isn't there one of their cars That uses basically almost the same engine
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It's just vertical And upside down Not sure I'm not too sure with Honda
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Yeah me neither Yeah I don't know I don't know a lot about
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about Hondas Unfortunately because you don't see them down here. Yeah. Yeah, they're just, they're not a saltwater engine for being honest
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If you keep up with it. Super popular up north in Washington. I mean, I'm pretty sure in Washington, they're like
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