Shopping for an outboard sounds simple until you realize how many bad purchases start with a good intention. A buyer picks a motor that looks right on paper, installs it, […] ...

Move the throttle lever, and ­Mercury Racing’s 500R outboard crushes you into the seat or bolster. There’s torque to spare all the way to its max-rated 6,600 rpm. It proved a blast testing aboard ...

If you’re not big into boating, you might think of outboard motors as weedy, sputtering engines lumped on the back of tiny fishing dinghies. In reality, they’re just as often horsepower monsters ...

I tested the Godfrey Sanpan 2700 powered by twin Mercury Racing 500R outboards. As the tachs climbed to 6,700 rpm, the speed rocketed to over 72 mph. I howled across the lake at over 100 feet per ...