Full Details On The Manitou Pontoon BRP Rotax 150 Outboard 

A fine example of a solution looking for a problem.

3 cylinder 150 2 stroke that sits underwater... What could go wrong?

They call it ghost for good reason when you’re on your third warranty claim for water intrusion that’s what BRP is going to do . ghost you.

All that added risk for a tiny bit more deck space? That will be a whole lot of nope from me on that one.

Just google omc sea drive. This is the same idea but worse. So what happens when you dock your boat for a week and you have dead battery and you have a slow water leak in the engine?

"The motor cover is completely watertight. It even has an air pressure pump and a bilge pump under the cover". Give us an update in a couple years and let us know how this piece of crap works out for you.

Timmy is fishing off the deck when daddy trims the motor up Timmy falls into boat breaks leg-----LOL

I can't believe BRP gave up Evinrude for this abomination that nobody wanted or asked for. Yeah the deck space is nice but most people use that deck space at the beach when the motor is tilted up which renders the deck useless anyway. I also can't believe they are still pushing 2-stroke technology. BRP should be ashamed.

Instead of the motor going the way of the G2 as a pos. Now it will be the whole boat. This thing is a joke.

I can't even finish watching this. BRP gave up on Evinrude too soon. They could have done what Mercury did with the big power motors and survived. This design is as bad as the old OMC outdrive. History will not be kind to this. Sorry.

Its the outboard equivalent to the titan submersible

I have one question.......why?

They say it only needs to be serviced every 500 hours or 5 years however; they only warranty it for 3 years! What does that tell you. Another e-tech situation brewing! Run!!!😢

The brand name on the side of the boat should be STUPID

Bring the outboards back ad keep making parts for the outboards..

The underboard

I've got a generation 1 Etec and I love the technical design concept. HOWEVER, that's where it ends. I live in fear of my engine suddenly dying. Seems the amount of stories of the EMM (the engine computer) just dying for no reason, is just way too many. Seems BRP have got so absorbed with innovation they completely forget about reliability. Car computers seem bullet-proof, and I barely ever hear of one failing despite the millions of vehicles on the road for many years. They also put the entire battery charging system within the computer module so it needs to be water cooled and has seawater flowing through it. Seems like this new engine may be using a lot of the same gear. Now they get all "innovative" again and design a submerged motor. Well, gaskets can eventually leak, seals can leak, or you get some crap in during assembly. Then the engine is sitting not being used for a few months and seepage starts filling up the engine compartment................................... And what about maintenance, and removing that lid. I'm quite happy with a single lever at each side, and I simply lift the cover off. Seems BRP just cannot forsee customer perception of these wacky ideas, regardless of whether they are technically good or bad. What are they going to come up with next. Many boaters did not take to the 2 stroke design but BRP do not seem to have learned from this, and clearly they have no idea of market acceptance, and create this thing. Back to my Etec, let's not forget parts availability (i.e. unavailability). That's another thing I live in fear of, and can imagine it may not be too long before a dealer (one of the few) says, "Sorry, can't get that anymore", and my engine is scrap. I wouldn't trust this company for a second, they have neither brains nor integrity.

I think that I read: The lower unit turns independent of the power head - when steering?

OK, will give them "super unique" for sure. I just don't get it though, why all the gimmicks to hide and outboard motor. I wish them well, but we have been down all these roads years ago at OMC, and it didn't work out very well.

This seems like a really bad idea from square one.

Anyone who buys from brp needs their head examined after what Evinrude has done to its customers..Good luck getting parts for that nightmare...

Who designed this ? How are you gonna service it? It's just old technology

No way I would ever buy a motor that's under water. Sounds like a claims nightmare

It’s called more money than brains

Let's put the powerhead under the waterline! Invented by the same people that thought feeding mayonnaise to the tunafish was a good idea.

Its gonna be a bigger failure than a carbon fiber submarine. I promise it will be the biggest pile they ever produce and cost a lot of people their jobs. There is literally no pro for this motor other than room on the deck. Trying to reinvent the wheel with a square block, makes no damn sense.

2 stroke makes for the best outboard in my opinion really wish BRP would make evinrude etec again my favorite outboard. This rotax outboard is terrible design they are putting the weight even further back which is probably going to slow planning down but I would definitely try one on my boat if they wanted to offer one up for testing as a repower on my Lund tyee

This is a terrible idea .... all this nonsense to gain like 8 square foot of swim platform space .... news flash idiots you can't stand on the swim platform above idle speed so what's the point

These look fantastic on a pontoon boat, I think the twin versions will be great! Still unfortunate they discontinued the Evinrude G2. It is such a great motor, class leading in so many categories

I know of two dealerships that have those piles sitting and not selling! BRP are idiots)) Just make Evinrude you frogs! Until then go Mercury!

I bought a new 2018 115hp evinrude in 2018. When it was sold it had a 6 year full warranty. Brp stops making them and the warranty goes out the door. We've been screwed. I won't ever buy brp anything!!!!!!

Are you kidding me? Under water engine! How much weed were these BRP engineers smoking?

I wonder how much there paying this guy. Send them to school and this is what you get these days

Bring back the omc cobra…

This thing is going to be a bad memory in 5 years.

Looks like a terrible idea an very prone to fail.

Do they make anything bigger than a 150?

Looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

Awesome Setup! #NeTime

This guy is legit trying to sell people on what will go down as the biggest failure in the marine power industry. I wouldnt be able to sleep at night knowing i ripped someone off so badly

its the most stupid thing brp could do , e-tec g2 was a great motor , and the come up whit this stupid motor.. ,And what drives them?? , til climate hysterica scam...

Ewh wtf

Trash

It's interesting but BPR really left us E-Tec owners out in wind. I purchased a new Boston Whaler 210 Montauk in 2016. I swapped out and upgraded the factory mounted Mercury 150HP outboard for a new 2016 200HO G2 E-Tec. Now my E-Tec needs about $5k worth of out of warranty work, but the parts just are not available, and the dealer support is almost none existent, so I am considering spending another $25k to repower with a 200HP Yamaha. So much for being loyal to Evinrude and BPR. My experience makes hard to imagine BRP will support the Rotax engine in the long haul.

They should have left Evinrude alone. This is downright stupid. I give it a year or two before these underboards go tits up. What happens if the battery goes dead? Your air pump and bilge pump don’t work, and your engine is junk. I’m still in disbelief BRP shoved this abomination onto an unsuspecting public. Shameful…..

Seems a little scary that 1/3 of that motor is going to be underwater at all times

Lol that is going to be a disaster 😂

When the outer case leaks and the battery dies the engine's built in bilge pump stops working, you have an engine totaled if it one of those boats left in the water. No thanks. Looks great on paper. Fails miserably in the long term in practical use. Waste of R&D development. Should have spent that money on making better outboards.

They should try to make it a nice looking boat if they want to peak my interest, awful design

Every engineer who designs new marine related products should have to be a licensed marine mechanic with 4 or 5 years experience prior to getting to design new products. What seems like a "revolutionary new design" on paper may turn out to be an absolute nightmare in real world applications.

Hmmm, I’m going bet these things come back in droves for warranty issues with water intrusion resulting in total engine lose. The engineers know this that’s why they added other systems to counter it. What happen if the battery goes dead and the bulge pumps stops working? You hit a dead head floating and crack that plastic cover?

#askteammarineservice

What a completely stupid idea for a power system for a boat. Underwater, vibration, heat, stress-- it is going to leak. There is no rationale in buying this system.

Insanity. OMC had Seadrives but not submerged.

When idiocracy meets boating 😂😂😂😂😂 Please sir, just stop

Take it for what it’s worth……. This “product” is an obvious disaster waiting to happen! To have this “outboard” submerged is an idiotic concept! There WILL be water intrusion! Anyone that has a clue about the boating industry knows that over time this engine will end up being a paper weight! To think this concept is the direction BRP went is laughable!

Yea they want the extra deck space which is nice don’t get me wrong but if your at the beach and your boat is beached your motor is gonna be trimmed out of the water so that’s completely impractical this is essentially an outboard trying to be an I/Oi can’t believe BRP gave up Evinrude for this but the one positive I have for this motor is that it gives you the ability as a pontoon owner it’s gives you the benefit of both a stern drive and an outboard it would be nice for a day out in the lake where your not beached at the sandbar

It's waterproof...until it's not, thanks BPR.

BRP sucks. Buying an Etec was my biggest boating mistake.

Mr.dodo head engineer that is down the road slipping money into bk's back pocket. Wait til youre dealing with pissed off customers that spent their hard earned money on boats that were built around an "underboard" that will be discontinued within a year or two. BRP there isnt anything wrong with a wheel, why try to reinvent it?

Plan on manitou going bankrupt in the next 4 years

If any body remembers all the problems people were having with later models and refusing to go four stroke and they still have not seen the light

I used to repair the inboards on BRP Jet boats. Most mechanics wouldn't touch them because you have to hang upside down in the engine compartment for hours in oil, gas and water. They broke often. I think that was why BRP abandoned making jet boats anymore because owners couldn't deal with all the reliability problems and cost. Now they make pontoons with the engine being easy to get to but then put it below the water line with will eventually become a nightmare.

Ok so y'all don't respond to negative commments. I'm sure to evinrude telling to not to. What about when i'm at the sand bar and have to trim the motor up. The "swim platform" is useless.

I wonder how well it’s going to handle being bumped into the dock or other boats! If that housing isn’t cast aluminum , you can kiss those things goodbye

😂 😂 😂 What were they smoking?

They said their etecs ran cleaner than 4 stokes and they for sure outperformed them so why would you want a 4 stroke. They had issues but who didnt. They need to save thy own a$$ and bring back the etec ho but just up the game on parts. The problem now days is out scorced parts that arent top quality. Also listen to the old timer engineers and ignore the young and dumb.

They"ll still need somewhere for thé powerpack eventually

If I'm not mistaken that'll be a SeaDoo/SkiDoo engine in there. I wouldn't worry too much about the engine being horizontal, the extra gearing is not much more to it than the Suzuki offset driveshaft. However, how it manages being below the water line will have to be seen. I suppose all SeaDoo's and inboards of all types have their engine below the water line, but it's a little different when it's in the boat.

So this video's been out for a while. Whats the verdict on this new engine? I really like the swim platform idea.

I sure hope they still offer a traditional 4-stroke option. Yamaha, Mercury etc. BRP needs to give up on the 2-stroke. It didn’t sell as Evinrude so I highly doubt if this will do any better. Reintroduce the old Johnson motor in a good reliable 4-stroke. Done

JUNK IT