Mercury Marine recently hosted a combination reveal and retirement party for its Verado outboard line. The introduction of its new V10 Verado 350/400 models also marked a farewell for the L6 Verado 350/400, the last descendants of the 2.6-liter supercharged platform that introduced the Verado nameplate 19 years ago. That’s a long run for any powersports product, and in that time, design tools, casting techniques and digital controls have advanced exponentially. Mercury has leveraged this technology, and a deep well of engineering experience, to fill the last gap in its new generation of Verado outboards with these all-new V10 models.
Boats with outboard power have also changed a lot in the past 19 years. Center-console models over 50 feet are now powered by four or five big outboards. Wide-beam day cruisers over 40 feet that previously would have had inboards now have multiple outboards on the transom. While these new Mercury motors will surely find a home on freshwater fishing boats and even pontoons, the primary mission of the V10 350/400 motor is to power this new generation of heavy, multi-engine boats.
The new Verado models have a V10 5.7-liter (349
