Supercar boats are what happens when a hypercar brand runs out of road. Over the past two decades Lamborghini, Bugatti, Aston Martin, Mercedes-AMG, Mansory and Brabus have all put their names on hulls — not as badge exercises, but as full design collaborations with serious yard partners. The results carry the same carbon fiber, the same aggressive geometry, and in several cases more horsepower than anything the brand sells on four wheels.
We have spent more than a century around performance machinery, and the questions we get about supercar boats are the same ones buyers ask about exotics: who actually builds it, what does it really do, and what does it cost once it is yours? Here is the honest rundown, brand by brand.
Supercar boats are high-performance powerboats and yachts designed in partnership between an exotic car manufacturer and an established boatbuilder, where the carmaker owns the styling and interior and the yard owns the naval architecture. The best-known examples are the Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63, the Bugatti Niniette 66, the Aston Martin AM37, the Mercedes-AMG Cigarette Racing editions, the Mansory Midnight Express and the Brabus Marine range. Expect carbon fiber construction, 1,000 to 7,600 horsepower, top speeds between 40 and 60 knots, and production runs measured in dozens rather than hundreds.
Six partnerships dominate the category. They are not competing for the same buyer — a 37-foot day boat and a 101-foot motoryacht are different lives — but together they define what supercar boats have become.
| Car brand | Yard partner | Flagship model | Length | Power | Top speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamborghini | Tecnomar / The Italian Sea Group | Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63 | 63 ft (19.2 m) | 4,000 PS (3,945 hp) | 60 knots |
| Lamborghini | Tecnomar / The Italian Sea Group | Tecnomar for Lamborghini 101 (2027) | 101 ft (30.8 m) | 7,600 hp | 45 knots |
| Bugatti | Palmer Johnson | Niniette 66 | 66 ft (20 m) | 1,000–1,200 hp | Low 40s knots |
| Aston Martin | Quintessence Yachts | AM37 / AM37S | 37 ft | 740–1,040 hp | 45–50 knots |
| Mercedes-AMG | Cigarette Racing | Tirranna AMG Edition | 59 ft | 2,700 hp | 80 mph |
| Mansory | Midnight Express | Midnight Express 52 | 52 ft | 2,500 hp | Class-leading |
| Brabus | Axopar (Brabus Marine) | Shadow 1200 | 45 ft 7 in | 1,200 hp | 50+ knots |
No collaboration translates a car more directly than this one. Automobili Lamborghini partnered with Tecnomar, part of The Italian Sea Group, and gave the yard’s designers the same brief its own studio works to: hexagons, hard angles, and nothing rounded that could be creased instead.
The 63 is a 19.2-metre, all-carbon-fiber hull driven by twin MAN V12-2000 engines. MAN rates each at 2,000 metric horsepower, so the pair make 4,000 PS — 3,945 hp in English measure — good for 60 knots, roughly 69 mph. The prow lights reference the Terzo Millennio and Sián FKP 37 concepts, and the hard top borrows from Lamborghini’s roadsters. The build is capped at 63 units, a nod to the company’s 1963 founding, and Tecnomar reported 36 launched as of late 2025.
What makes it credible rather than decorative is the weight discipline. Carbon construction is what lets a boat this size hit 60 knots on just under 4,000 hp, and it is the same argument Lamborghini makes about its cars. The full spec sheet is published on Tecnomar’s own model page.
The follow-up is far bigger. Revealed as a scale model at the 2025 Monaco Yacht Show, the Tecnomar for Lamborghini 101 stretches to 30.8 metres with an aluminium hull and superstructure, three MTU 16V 2000 M96L diesels producing a combined 7,600 hp, a 45-knot top speed and a 35-knot cruise. It sleeps nine guests plus three crew, with Lamborghini and The Italian Sea Group saying delivery is expected in late 2027.
The styling leans on the limited-run Fenomeno hypercar, right down to the Giallo Crius livery and the lighting signatures, while the helm takes its cues from the Temerario. It is the clearest signal yet that supercar boats are moving from novelty halo projects into real, repeatable product lines. Specifications are listed in BoatInternational’s superyacht directory.
Launched in 2017, the Niniette 66 was Bugatti’s answer to the same question, and it took the opposite approach to Lamborghini’s. Where the Tecnomar is all edges, the Niniette is all sweep: long curved flanks, a two-tone finish over bare carbon, and the horseshoe motif carried into the bow.
The 20-metre hull runs twin MAN engines in 1,000 hp or 1,200 hp form, with a quoted top speed of 44 knots — deliberately more grand tourer than raceboat. The cockpit carries a jacuzzi that converts to a sun pad, a fire pit, and a steering wheel adapted from the Chiron. Pricing landed around 2.6 million dollars.
It is also the one that never happened. Palmer Johnson closed its Sturgeon Bay yard in 2015, no Niniette hull has been documented as delivered, and the builder’s own website has not been updated since 2019 and no longer lists the boat. Treat the Niniette as a beautifully resolved concept rather than a boat you can buy.
The name is the deep cut: Niniette was a beloved dog in the Bugatti family, and Ettore Bugatti commissioned a boat by that name back in 1930. Among supercar boats, it is the one with the longest historical thread — the same instinct for one-off, story-driven commissions that produced the $20M Destrier one-off at Monterey Car Week 2026.
Revealed in 2015 and built with Quintessence Yachts to naval architecture by Mulder Design, the AM37 is the most restrained entry in the category — and the one most likely to age well. At 37 feet it is a day boat, not a superyacht, with a vacuum-infused composite hull, a carbon fiber superstructure, hand-laid teak and a two-seat cockpit that reads as a DB-series interior transplanted onto water.
Aston Martin offered it three ways: twin 370 hp Mercury diesels, twin 430 hp Mercury petrol engines, or the AM37S with twin 520 hp petrol units. Aston Martin quoted 45 knots for the AM37 and 50 knots for the AM37S — quick for a day boat, and deliberately short of raceboat territory. A sliding cover retracts to expose the cockpit, which is the sort of detail that separates a designed boat from a rebadged one.
Among supercar boats, the AM37 makes the strongest case that restraint is a performance feature. It is also the cautionary tale. Only a handful of hulls were ever completed, and Quintessence Yachts UK was dissolved in April 2023, taking the programme with it. These projects live or die on the yard partner rather than the badge — and this one died on the yard partner.
Everyone else in this story is a relative newcomer. Mercedes-AMG and Cigarette Racing built boats together from 2007, producing a new special edition nearly every year and tying each one to a specific AMG road car — thirteen of them in all.
The Tirranna AMG Edition is the headline act: 59 feet, six Mercury Racing 450R outboards across the transom for 2,700 hp total, and 80 mph flat out. It was styled around the G63 Cigarette Edition in matching black and gold, and AMG’s Performance Studio in Affalterbach built a one-off G63 with an interior keyed to the boat — the first time the car followed the boat rather than the other way around.
Fourteen years of near-annual collaboration is what separates this from a marketing exercise, and it is the partnership that made the category legitimate. It has also gone quiet: the last AMG special edition was the 41-foot Nighthawk in 2021, Cigarette changed hands the same year, and the builder’s current range carries no AMG branding at all. The Tirranna is still sold — just no longer as an AMG Edition.
Mansory built its reputation on extreme carbon fiber treatments for Lamborghinis, Ferraris and Rolls-Royces, so a Miami center console was an obvious next canvas. The current collaboration is the 2026 Midnight Express 52.
Five Mercury Racing 500R outboards — each a supercharged 4.6-litre V8 — deliver 2,500 hp, making it one of the fastest center consoles in its class. Mansory’s contribution is the forged carbon fiber T-top and exterior accents plus a full interior in honeycomb-stitched leather with Burmester audio.
This is the tuner-house model applied to water: take an already excellent hull from a specialist builder, then rework every visible surface. Among supercar boats it is the most Miami thing in the category, and it knows it.
Brabus took the category further than anyone. Rather than badge a single halo build, it partnered with Finnish builder Axopar to create Brabus Marine, a full production range of day boats sold through its own dealer network.
The Shadow 1200 premiered at boot Dusseldorf in January 2024: 45 feet 7 inches, three 400 hp Mercury outboards for 1,200 hp, and 50-plus knots, finished in Brabus Graphite Black with the brand’s signature red hull stripes. Details are on Axopar’s press newsroom.
And it is still expanding. In July 2026 Brabus announced a partnership with Italian builder AB Yachts to launch the first Brabus-branded yacht range in the larger segment, with the debut model scheduled for the Monaco Yacht Show in late September 2026. That moves supercar boats out of the day-boat bracket entirely.
The interesting question with supercar boats is not what the badge promises but what genuinely transfers. Styling language moves across almost intact. Mechanical hardware essentially never does — every boat here uses marine engines from MAN, MTU or Mercury, not a repurposed car engine. What the carmaker really exports is proportion, material and interior craft.
| Partnership | Design donor | What carried over | What deliberately did not |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamborghini x Tecnomar | Sian FKP 37, Terzo Millennio | Hexagonal geometry, Y-shaped lighting, carbon-first construction | Proportions — hull volume rules, not a mid-engine package |
| Bugatti x Palmer Johnson | Chiron | Horseshoe motif, two-tone split over bare carbon, the steering wheel itself | Outright speed; it is tuned as a grand tourer |
| Aston Martin x Quintessence | DB-series cockpits | Leather and teak cabin, restrained surfacing, driver-focused helm | Aggression — it was always meant to be a day boat |
| Mercedes-AMG x Cigarette | G63 Cigarette Edition | Livery, cabin materials, Affalterbach detailing | Anything mechanical; propulsion is pure Mercury Racing |
| Mansory x Midnight Express | Mansory’s own car catalogue | Forged carbon on every visible surface, honeycomb-stitched leather | Subtlety, entirely on purpose |
| Brabus x Axopar | Brabus Shadow car range | Graphite black paint, red hull stripes, monoblock-style detailing | Rarity — this one is a real production range |
Read the table and a pattern appears: the most convincing supercar boats are the ones where the carmaker resisted copying the car outright and instead translated its rules into a hull.
The sticker is the easy part. Anyone shopping supercar boats should budget the same way they would for a hypercar: purchase price is roughly the first year of a much longer commitment, and marine running costs are less forgiving than automotive ones because saltwater never stops working on the hull.
| Cost line | What drives it | Why it surprises buyers |
|---|---|---|
| Berthing / marina | Length overall and location | Prime Med and South Florida berths are priced per metre and often waitlisted |
| Fuel | Total horsepower, not displacement | Multi-thousand-horsepower packages burn fuel at a rate no car approaches |
| Engine service | Outboard count and hours | Five or six outboards means five or six service schedules |
| Haul-out and antifoul | Annual, sometimes twice yearly | Carbon hulls need specialist yards, not the local boatyard |
| Crew | Anything past roughly 60 feet | Salaries, training and rotation are a permanent line item |
| Insurance | Value, speed and cruising area | High-speed craft are rated differently from equivalent-value cruisers |
The parallel to exotic cars is close enough to be useful. If you have read our breakdown of the real cost to own a Lamborghini Huracan, the shape of the math will look familiar — the multipliers are simply larger at sea.
Three reasons, and only one of them is marketing.
What has changed recently is ambition. The first wave of supercar boats were halo objects built in tiny numbers. The Lamborghini 101, the Brabus Marine range and the new Brabus x AB Yachts venture are product lines with roadmaps, dealer support and delivery slots into 2027 and beyond.
The diligence habits transfer directly from cars. Our first-time exotic car buyer’s guide covers the same discipline on the automotive side, and our sister publication Exotic Car News tracks new reveals across both worlds.
Put in the same units, the Mercedes-AMG Tirranna AMG Edition leads at 80 mph, just ahead of the Tecnomar for Lamborghini 63 at 60 knots — which is 69 mph, not 60. The two are within about half a knot of each other; the mixed units builders use hide how close it is. The Mansory Midnight Express 52 and its 2,500 hp are the class benchmark among center consoles.
No. Automobili Lamborghini supplies the exterior and interior design, and Tecnomar, part of The Italian Sea Group, handles naval architecture and construction. That split is standard across supercar boats: the carmaker owns the look, the yard owns the engineering.
It was announced in 2017 at roughly 2.6 million dollars, with twin MAN engines in 1,000 hp or 1,200 hp form and a quoted 44 knots. No hull has been documented as delivered, and Palmer Johnson closed its Sturgeon Bay yard in 2015, so the price is an announced figure rather than a transacted one.
Mercedes-AMG and Cigarette Racing, who collaborated from 2007 through 2021 on thirteen special editions, each tied to a specific AMG road car. The partnership has been quiet since 2021 and Cigarette’s current range carries no AMG branding, so the record is longest-running rather than currently active.
Treat them as depreciating assets with a collectible tail, not as investments. Capped runs such as the 63-unit Lamborghini hold value better than open production, but berthing, fuel, multi-engine servicing and haul-out costs make total ownership expense the number that matters.
Two things. Brabus announced a partnership with AB Yachts in July 2026, with the first Brabus-branded yacht due at the Monaco Yacht Show in late September 2026. And the 101-foot Tecnomar for Lamborghini 101, with 7,600 hp and a 45-knot top speed, is scheduled for delivery in late 2027.
Supercar boats started as brand extensions and turned into a genuine segment. The engineering is real, the yard partners are serious, and the newest projects have delivery schedules stretching into 2027 rather than press releases and a single show boat.
At Exotic Motors we have watched the same pattern play out on land for a century: the halo object arrives, gets called a gimmick, and then quietly becomes collectible. If the garage is handled and the dock is next, these are the names worth knowing — and our team is happy to talk through how supercar boats fit alongside the rest of a collection.
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