MAN will unveil its flagship V12X 2200-hp marine diesel at the Cannes show, starting Sept. 6.
The new MAN has a significant 30-liter displacement and generates its 2200-hp (1618kW) at 2300 rpm. It’s the Munich-based builders most powerful engine for recreational boats.
“The MAN V12X marks the next generation of yacht engines,” said Werner Kübler, MAN’s head of engineering. “The redesign of the MAN V12X is accompanied by extra displacement for shipyards. As always, we have retained the excellent power-to-weight ratio that MAN engines are known for.”
The new 2200-hp engine comes after MAN’s launch of a 12-cylinder, 2000-hp model less than two years ago. We don’t have details at the new 2200-hp version, but the 2000-hp engine displayed at the Fort Lauderdale show last fall weighed in at 5,248 pounds and measured 7 feet in length, 3’ 7” in width, and just 4’ 1” in height.
Those measurements gave it a relatively compact size and a low power-to-weight ratio, making it attractive for a wide variety of boats, from sport fishing boats to motor yachts and long-range cruisers. MANs are currently in use in everything from Ferrettis to Flemings. Indeed, Tony Fleming repowered his own Fleming 65, Venture, with MANs a few years ago, and they are now the standard engines on Fleming 65s.
MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg) traces its roots back to an ironworks in Germany’s Ruhr steel region in 1758. The company built bridges for quite a while. In the late 1800s, Rudolf Diesel worked with MAN engineers for four years to build the first diesel. Read more:
