On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:05:56 -0400, HK wrote:

I haven't been shopping for an outboard sans boat, so I'm not really
aware that Yamaha has a price advantage. I'd love to see some examples
of such Yamaha pricing, though. Hell, it isn't easy to see a boat price
"unbundled" from its outboard.

Perhaps I didn't make that clear enough.

What I meant is that Yamaha is making deals with manufacturers so that
boats are bundled with Yamaha engines - they are cutting costs to
manufacturers to get their engine out there.