Malibu Corvette

[Jason B]

I'm sure you guys would be all over it, if it said "Tigé" on the side. Seriously, you would turn down a 7.0L V8?

I'd turn it down. What I have now is more than adequate. I've never had a single time I wished my motor was bigger or faster. The extra expense to purchase the upgrade and pay for the fuel would be a deal breaker. Now, if I were Bill Gates JR, then Yeah!

[Wake Bandits]

Some of my old school boating friends say Malibu tried this idea once before and got ran.

[zad0030]

There is too much red. If you tow that thing down the highway with a red truck you would be mistaken for a firetruck.

That is surprising with Tiges marketing geared toward the family, I would have thought they would have gone for the Grand Caravan Tige

ROTFLMAO

[Lunchbox]

I look at this like I do at the Cadillac 16 or whatever it's called... Cadillac produced a concept car with a huge 16 cylinder engine that will obviously never be produced...

Same thing here... VERY cool concept, VERY little practicality and function... It looks very bad a$$ though... Will it be mass produced? Or at least a limited production plan? Also is there a tower?

[Lunchbox]

Also Domz06 they put half your name in the seats...

[wannabewakeboarder]

Some of my old school boating friends say Malibu tried this idea once before and got ran.

here.

[R&T Babich]

Some of my old school boating friends say Malibu tried this idea once before and got ran.

Here's the one in front of the Malibu plant in Merced from 2 years ago. I think it was built in the '70s.

[Hammer]

It was the late 90's and it ran like a scalded dog. Pretty boat but a very narrow market. The trailer had corvette wheels and tires on it. That's got to be a couple thousand dollars by itself.

[my86stanggt]

I almost bought one of the old ones instead of my Tige. They have the 400hp Callaway engines. The only thing that turned me away was it was so narrow and no bow seating. Course most of the Malibu's are narrow in this catagory. I like it. I'm like Tim Allen when it comes to power, it's never enough. Course I don't have the cash to even make that decision.

[tigeblue]

Cool idea, ugly boat

[Domsz06]

FREAKING SWEET!!!! I'd buy one, oh wait no way would i!! that's a 100K plus boat!

PLUS the 7.0 liter has had HUGE issues with sustained high rpm driving, and I would think that unless they had a HUGE gear reduction drop with the v-drive you would be running 4-5k in rpm's and this is right at the beginning of where they have had the issues in the z06's.

Don't get me wrong what a sweet boat, and I would buy one, but not sure it's worth the price or the issues I see down the road.

[Domsz06]

Also Domz06 they put half your name in the seats...

those are my seats!! I have those exact same seats in my z!! had to take her for a drive last night, make sure she could still stretch her legs He he he, evo never knew what hit him

[Domsz06]

I'd turn it down. What I have now is more than adequate. I've never had a single time I wished my motor was bigger or faster. The extra expense to purchase the upgrade and pay for the fuel would be a deal breaker. Now, if I were Bill Gates JR, then Yeah!

if it runs and they geared it like the z06 it would kick all of our motors in fuel conseumption!! I get 31 on the highway doing 90 and intown stop light to stop light the worst I have gotten is 19. The way they have it geared and how they use the fuel is amazing.

There are certain people after a tune job as chevy still has them run hog rich have gotten as much as 35 mph on the highway, granted this is at 70mph, when the motor is only turning 1300 rpm

I look at this like I do at the Cadillac 16 or whatever it's called... Cadillac produced a concept car with a huge 16 cylinder engine that will obviously never be produced...

Same thing here... VERY cool concept, VERY little practicality and function... It looks very bad a$$ though... Will it be mass produced? Or at least a limited production plan? Also is there a tower?

I would love to have one, have to see it in person, but if it's not very functional what's the point, also the LS7 is a 20K motor, so if you up the boat price to pay for that I think the boat is way overpriced.

BUT if I could afford it, you can bet I probably would

[wannabewakeboarder]

HEY

My dealer sent me this link a few hours ago with 30 pictures of this Vette boat. He says there limited and they also have one on its way.

http://flickr.com/photos/malibuboats

[wannabewakeboarder]

Get this, The side windows roll down.