Evinrude motors done

Evinrude’s parent company announced they are discontinuing production on their motors. They will focus on boats manufacturing.

Is that the end of 2 stroke outboards? Anyone else making them anymore?

What about them 10 year g2 warranties now??????

I think that is the end of 2 stroke outboards.

I love the smell of 2 stroke in the morning.

That's what she said.

Evinrude aint been evinrude for a long time...they died when omc died in my oppinion

I do too Wiley.

I love the quiet idling, smoke free, raw horsepower of my big ol 4 stoke Yamaha.
I would never go back to a oil burner, never.

The introduction of Ficht killed OMC. Those small 150's like the Intruder didn't help either. Mine lived at the mechanics shop.

Same here. Starts like a car motor and gets 50% better gas mileage. My run from Ditto to G Dam and back is now less than 8 gal and I'm going 10 mph faster.

I'd love to have a 150hp 4 stroke for all those reasons too. I'd also like to have the spare money that one costs just to sit on. I can close my eyes and smell that old 2 stroke 185 Johnson (my Big White Johnson ) and it takes me back to the days of the first boat that I fished from. We had a 12 foot flat bottom wood boat and an 18 horse Elgin. Later on Daddy got an 18 horse Evinrude and put on it. Man, the memories of fishing back then and the fish that we hauled home!

I was just doin some reading...brp is claiming covid related financial issues to be the culprit for the discontinuation of their outboard line. I also read that the boat manufacturers they own will be powered by mercury engines per a lisensed agreement....mercury finally won i guess..even if by name only.

I have an old evinrude 112 two stroke that is on a pontoon boot i just got . Still ain't got it go crank yet...

As per BRP's press release:

Following BRP’s decision to discontinue E-TEC and E-TEC G2 outboard engines, the company has signed an agreement with Mercury Marine to support boat packages and continue to supply outboard engines to its boat brands. BRP will continue to supply customers and its dealer network service parts, and it will honor manufacturer limited warranties, plus offer select programs to manage inventory.

They'll still discontinue parts in a few years. You already can't get ficht parts. I would strongly encourage anyone that has an ETec to dump it while you can.

I'd imagine that with Mercury being dumped the extra boats to power, an average Joe is going to have a hard time repowering a boat for the next little whilte.

I may be wrong...but it wouldnt shock me if they are powered with tohatsu engines to get the name to fill the vacuum left by evinrude...be a great time to put a big jap four stroke at the helm...since they kinda been a back burner repower option for awhile and powering smaller craft. Their performance on saltwater is pretty well respected and more dealers would mean more money...my oppinion.

Just read, tohatsu has been makin 15hp an below rudes since 2011

So..did some readin...brunswick corp conglomerate owns mercury...an a buncha other shucks...honda builds tohatsu from bout 60hp up...hmmm after careful reconsideration of my above statement...i feel like i dint know what i was talkin about...please disregard.😁

I agree because it was virtually impossible to get one before this. April of 1019 I burned a piston up in my 250 pro xs 2 stroke and had every intention of getting a new 250 pro xs 4 stroke. There was just one little problem and that was that nobody in the entire country had just a loose engine and the waiting period for just an engine was 12-22 months. For this reason I just took it to someone to have the damaged cylinder bored out and a new piston,rings,bearings and injector installed for way less than what a new engine was gonna cost me.

Maybe. Maybe not. We're a Tier 1 supplier to MM. They were already months behind on orders for the engines we make parts for. However, with Covid-19, they've pulled castings we were making back in house because they now have available foundry capacity.

Side note: Our biggest customers are in two markets: Marine and Lawn and Garden. The marine customers (not just Merc) don't think they'll ever see the orders they lost during the pandemic. The lawn and garden guys ran hard long into the pandemic because their marketing folks think their customers will come back full force. Its interesting how differently two groups are forecasting the recovery.

Yeah Wiley, that Johnson 185 takes you to the gas station a lot too ! Those motors were gas guzzlers, anytime you got over an idle.