Mercedes-Benz AMG and the Cigarette Racing Team have announced a new special-edition offshore speedboat created in the likeness of Benz’s over-the-top G63 AMG. The new boat is making its debut at the big Miami international boat show this week. To state the obvious, the connection between the Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG and this Cigarette Racing Huntress speedboat the Benz SUV supposedly inspired is tenuous at best.
The only rock crawling the boat is likely to undertake involves one of its well-heeled owners dipping into the Cristal and making an unintended beach landing; the closest the G63 will get to a sea voyage is wading through a deep puddle at the local boutique parking lot. But the G63 is cool, and Cigarette boats are cool—at least to those who grew up idolizing 1980s-era Miami—so mixing the former’s mojo with the latter should be supercool, right? Right?
Regardless, this isn’t the first collaboration between Cigarette and AMG; the two brands previously cooked up an SLS-inspired speedboat, which featured neat AMG lettering and a stripey paint job. And though there are few apparent similarities between the G63 and the Huntress, they’re really not terribly different in concept. Both vehicles have a strong Not-of-This-Era vibe, gulp fuel, are sort of ridiculous, and we wouldn’t be shocked to see either being frantically piloted by someone wearing a dusting of white powder on their upper lip whist running from a gaggle of ATF agents.
Furthermore, the Huntress measures 42 feet from bow to stern, holds 500 gallons of fuel, weighs nearly 19,000 pounds, and has a top speed of 78 mph. Those specs more or less—emphasis on the more and the less parts—mirror those of the huge-gantic-feeling G63, save for the top speed, which in the Benz is a higher but altogether more frightening 130 mph. Oh, and the Huntress is powered by five Mercury outboard motors, thoroughly spanking the single-engined (but twin-turbocharged!) G63 in the manhood-measurement department.
- First Drive: 2013 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG
- First Drive: 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG
- Instrumented Test: 2013 Mercedes-Benz G550
But any head-to-head technical comparisons between the G-wagen and the Huntress are as pointless as pitting Free Willy against an elephant. Instead, we imagine the two vehicles are more likely to augment one another—as well as a small Cessna airplane—in a well-to-do cartel leader’s transportation trifecta. Or so we imagine through our Miami Vice–tinted BluBlockers.
