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The Power Broker

The new Verado 400 is the most powerful outboard Mercury Marine has offered in its 80-year history. It’s also the performance apogee of an engine platform that has proved durable and influential since its introduction 15 years ago.

Mercury says it has built more than 200,000 Verado outboards, with constant, incremental improvement guiding the evolution

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