is this fraud or what ??

[Parasympathetic]

Yep, Mercury sued Yamaha for unfair competition at the same time they were buying engines from Yamaha. They sued the company that was their sole source of 4-stroke engines. So, Yamaha cut them off. Yamaha won the suit, btw.

That's like when Ford had problems with the IH diesel engines they used in their trucks, so they quit paying for them (but kept receiving them and selling them in their trucks) and sued International Harvester for the cost of warranty repairs.
So IH counter-sued for a years worth of engines Ford hadn't paid for.and stopped shipments of their diesel engines. Well guess what, Ford didn't make their own diesel, so now they had none to sell in their trucks.

Brilliant American business thinking. What the hell are they teaching in our business universities? Look at what has happened to our large corporations in the last 20 years.

Dumbasses

[FloterBoter]

so the small mercs are still made by tohatsu?
the 4 strokes are made by merc, based on the verado powerhead?

good news for those engineers in india.

[LTB Racing]

Thats the first I've heard of Tohatsu making Mercs so I cant answer that one intelligently???? They may very well be making some of the smaller engines.
And yes most of their new 4 strokes are descendants of the Verado p.head.