Suzuki Marine at Hutchwilco: one product, one focus, and a prop story worth knowing Most stands at the Hutchwilco Boat Show cover a lot of ground. Boats, motors, accessories, electronics. The Suzuki Marine stand does one thing. Outboards, from a 2.5hp portable up to 350hp, and nothing else.
The range is built around the New Zealand single-outboard trailer boat, up to around eight metres, and that focus shows in the engineering. Suzuki’s outboards were not adapted from products designed for American multi-engine setups, they were built from the ground up for the way New Zealand boaties actually use them.
The offset driveshaft is the technical piece that underpins the range. By comparison, many outboards on the market use a direct drive. The offset produces a higher gear ratio, around 3.5:1, which allows a larger diameter prop with bigger blades to run at the right speed without being overdriven. More blade area doing the work, Suzuki say less horsepower is then lost in the drivetrain.
The duo prop option adds a second counter-rotating prop, splitting the load and adding efficiency again. Lean burn cuts fuel consumption at cruise by leaning off the mixture once past the working load threshold.
Suzuki backs the range with a seven year warranty, the longest currently in the outboard market.
Show specials run from the bottom to the top, with the 2.5hp portable at $999 and the 6hp at $1,999, fitted deals on the 40, 60 and 80hp models, and 0% finance over three years across the 100 to 150hp range. Specials extend through to 350hp as well.
