Ah, the freedom of boating. Getting out on the water with a couple of pals, wind whipping against your faces as you crank up that roaring V12. Oh, you don’t have a V12 outboard on your boat? Mercury ...

Mercury Marine recently pulled the covers off an all-new flagship, a powerful hunk of water-dipped muscle it bills as the world's first V12 outboard engine. The naturally aspirated 7.6-liter V12 ...

The first outboard was actually electric (left). The 12-cylinder block for Mercury’s 600-hp Verado shows how far outboard technology has come. World History Archive/Alamy stock photo Once upon a time, ...

Mercury Marine had never built anything but boat motors when Chevy turned to it for the ZR-1's new V8. But it had a long, ...