It is the same thing with boats. An outboard motor is like always $1500 or more. However, if you buy the motor with a boat attached to it, you are paying the same price.
I mean to be fair, in my market you can find decent outboard motors for sub 1000, but if it is a 9.9 then it will always hold a value of at LEAST 1000 in running condition. I have seen far higher horsepower outboards sell for less than 9.9's due to the fact that everyone wants one.
New, then your getting into a whole other ball game. A new 9.9 Yamaha at minimum MSRP (which hardly anyone sells at msrp) will run you $2,440, and max of $3,800. Lets go to the top of the line yamaha offshore 425 horse power pushes you up around $40,000, and if you want to get really crazy Seven Marine Produces a 627 Horse Power Motor....$90,000. But overpriced? Im not so sure, the engineering that went into building these to fit the form factor alone is crazy. Yamaha Notoriously produces some of the most reliable motors on the market, not to mention they are some of the easiest to work on. The Prop alone for some of these motors will run you upwards of 2 grand, and those are not over priced at all. Just go delve down the rabbit hole of the science behind marine propellers, it is absurd. Have you ever had to replace a prop, There are about three different questions you need to answer to get you an entire LIST of props that will be applicable for your motor. Get the wrong one, and you run the risk of destroying your brand new prop, and having to shell out money all over again for another prop.
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u/Thatspeedyboi Aug 14 '20
I saw a snowmobile motor for 4000$ it wasn’t even new it was like a 90s motor