Evinrude discontinued

[Brian Jones]

Maybe I'm not reading this correctly but it seems like a real kick in the pants to the long time mercury dealers; especially for those in close proximity to evinrude dealers such as troutt and sons and cowtown. They're literally one exit apart.......

[rps]

Wow. If I were not 70 and on my last boat, I would buy a Vexus with a brand new ETEC and fish the next 15 years. I may do that anyway.

 

[fishinwrench]

10 minutes ago, rps said:

Wow. If I were not 70 and on my last boat, I would buy a Vexus with a brand new ETEC and fish the next 15 years. I may do that anyway.

 

Still the best plan in boating, regardless.  

I am being assured that aquiring parts in the future is NOT going to be a problem.  

[wily]

Do they still make Johnson’s?  Or were they discontinued?

[mixermarkb]

13 minutes ago, wily said:

Do they still make Johnson’s?  Or were they discontinued?

Johnsons were discontinued years ago, I believe 

[Seth]

1 hour ago, Brian Jones said:

Maybe I'm not reading this correctly but it seems like a real kick in the pants to the long time mercury dealers; especially for those in close proximity to evinrude dealers such as troutt and sons and cowtown. They're literally one exit apart.......

It just says that Mercury will be supplying engines for BRP boat brands. I didn’t see anything mentioned about outboard dealers though. Cowtown just got the Etec G2 jets up and going and now this happened. I’ll be curious to see what they end up doing. They were one of the few dealers that strictly sold one brand of outboard because they truly believed it to be the best product on the market. What a deal.....

[fishinwrench]

They attempted a line of 4-strokes under the Johnson name, by teaming up with Suzuki....and then Tohatsu, but that all went bad so they cut ties with the Japs and just let the Johnson name go away.  

Everyone talks crap about the FICHT era, but the design wasn't much different from the Etec design of today (or yesterday).   None of the 4-6 cylinder outboards, regardless of brand, that were produced during the big emissions squeeze (2001-2006) were very reliablle, but you can blame 80% of that on the popularity of the HOTFOOT throttle control that became popular about the same time.  Boats don't coast like cars do, and marine engineers never took into consideration that if an accelerator pedal was installed that people were going to attempt to drive their boats like they do their cars/trucks.... therefore testing was never done in that fashion during development.  

[dtrs5kprs]

1 hour ago, mixermarkb said:

Johnsons were discontinued years ago, I believe 

Yep. Post Bombardier.

[fishinwrench]

16 minutes ago, Seth said:

Cowtown just got the Etec G2 jets up and going and now this happened. I’ll be curious to see what they end up doing. They were one of the few dealers that strictly sold one brand of outboard because they truly believed it to be the best product on the market. What a deal.....

Yeah I'm glad I stayed strictly in the service business and never made the grand slam jump into a dealership.  

Tech classes are still on the future schedule so BRP fully intends to continue parts sales and service bulletins for many years to come.  

Evinrude outboards will be around for quite some time yet.  You don't have to be NEW to be awesome. 😉

[Bill Babler]

Hate to see it.  Another iconic name in the fishing industry going by the wayside.  For the first 30 years of my life Johnson/Evinrude was pretty much all we had, including my stint on the MSWP and all our rental boats at the folks marina.