Speed, Style & Beauty: $760,000 Aquariva by Gucci

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed)
Sep 14th 2010 at 3:01PM

Two iconic Italian brands – famed fashion label Gucci and Riva, the chic motorboat maker that epitomizes Dolce Vita style – have teamed up on a wicked new speedboat for the style-conscious set. The Aquariva By Gucci (above), produced along with Officina Italiana Design, will be available by special order in 2011 starting at $760,000. The boat was designed by Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini as part of the famed label's upcoming 90th anniversary celebrations. The boat's fiberglass hull and detailing are painted in Gucci's custom glossy white, offset with varnished mahogany in the cockpit and decks. The seats and sundeck are upholstered in waterproof Gucci print fabric with the fashion house's signature red and green stripe detailing. Gianni has also designed a number of Riva by Gucci his-and-hers accessories, including bags and shoes, to go along with the craft, which is powered by two 380 hp Yanmar engines for a maximum speed of 41 knots and a 150-mile range at cruising speed.

[via JamesList]

Gallery: Aquariva by Gucci

Tags: boat, fashion, Frida Giannini, Gucci, Italian fashion, mahogany, powerboat, Riva, speedboat, yacht

Filed under: Apparel, Yachts & Sailing

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Sunday Sep 14th 2010 7:43PM

Gorgeous boat! Gucci outdid themselves! Would LOVE to own one...

Sunday Sep 14th 2010 7:50PM

Gorgeous boat! Gucci scored big-time with this boat!- would LOVE to own one...

rwayne52 Sep 14th 2010 8:20PM

The Aquariva has of course been around for decades first built in mahogany now of modern composites. The Gucci styling appears much more beautiful then the recent edgy Marc Newson version with uncomfortable seats. My preference is the original for that Monte Carlo to Portofino run with an Italian beauty at my side.

TodayLA09 Sep 14th 2010 9:30PM

Aren't you the you that just bought that 3 bedroom, $300,000,000 condo in Monte Carlo?

Bojae Sep 14th 2010 8:22PM

it is way over the top...i've been in boating for 50 years and i can tell you there is no bang for the buck here....it's the NAME!

TodayLA09 Sep 14th 2010 9:27PM

$760,000 now really?? damm...... it better come with the girl in the picture..

Flagrante Delicto Sep 14th 2010 10:35PM

Chris Craft makes a super sport that looks just like this... for hundreds of thousands less.

BTDT Sep 14th 2010 10:55PM

Three quarters of a million for a boat? Really?
Gucci can't even make a watch that keeps time.

bev Sep 14th 2010 11:41PM

too bad it isn't eco/electric. like the dynamite tesla!

chris Sep 15th 2010 9:45AM

Dude, the Tesla is a mirage, much like the Prius' ultra-green image. The British show Top Gear took a couple of them out, and within a few miles of track duty one was out of juice entirely and the second cooked its motor within a couple of laps. I mean, they're showering money on this guy Elon Musk to spread these things, and he's barely put any Roadsters on the street and the sedan he's being paid to make is supposedly still in concept form.

Not to mention that, much like the Prius, it'll be a quiet eco-disaster. For example, a Prius starts life with a bigger carbon footprint than a Range Rover. How? The main reason being, that though it may run on happiness and emit nothing but sunshine from its exhaust pipe, the dorky looking thing's parts are outsourced all over the world. And they're heavy. So, transporting all of those parts, the electric motor, the battery packs, the low-rolling resistance tires, uses more fuel than the Prius could ever make up by being efficient. I'd imagine the Tesla must be the same way to justify it's seventy grand price tag.

What we really need here:
Manual Transmissions- Not to mention they don't drain as much power as automatics, manuals let you pick the right gear at the right time, thus letting you keep the revs where they need to be when they need to be. Add in that you can coast downhill and at lights, and you have a recipe for efficiency. And fun, that might actually get a few people off their phones.

Diesels- The clean diesels that are being smothered here get stupid good mileage in Europe. Again with Top Gear, the one host drove a Volkswagen Lupo (think slightly smaller VW Golf) Diesel and a Prius through the same route. The Toyota got 45mpg, the VW got 75 miles per gallon. Yes, 75.

Weight reduction- Lighter cars are less drain on the motor, meaning it needs to do less work to propel the car along. Less work, ala revs, is less fuel consumption. A smaller motor, in a small lightweight car, with a manual trans, can provide hybrid fuel efficiency for a fraction of the cost and while still providing more fun. Think of the old CRX Si' or even the failed Geo Metro, they got gas mileage figures twenty years ago that many new "hybrids" (Tahoe Hybrid?) can't come close to.

bev Sep 14th 2010 11:45PM

pity it's not electric. like tesla. eco-delicious va-va-vavoom, as raymond pettibon might sketch...

BC Sep 15th 2010 12:05AM

More than 3/4 of a million dollars for a boat that only goes 41 knots. That is only about 47 statute mile per hour (your car's speedometer is in statute miles per hour). I'm with BOJAE on this one. NO bang for the buck. It's all show and no go.

Edward G Hoffmann Sep 15th 2010 12:34AM

Talk about a hole in the water to trow money into! This one takes the cake.

JEB BUCKINGHAM Sep 15th 2010 1:26AM

Yeah, I'll bet people will be lining up to buy one of these, in this era of economic hard times.

leaf Sep 15th 2010 5:03AM

give me a bayliner with twin mercs any day, only some idiot with more money than brains would drop 1/4 mil this POS.

bev Sep 15th 2010 3:51PM

chris - thanks for comments... however...

Top Gear is a entertainment show. The host is very funny and he happens to dislike electric vehicles, and if he wants to keep his job and sponsors, he has little choice in the matter. He did however have to write a formal and public apology for pretending the Tesla ran out of power. It in fact had 80 miles charge left at the end of the test and he faked the whole thing for dramatic affect. Please see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/24/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-tesla-electric-car
The Tesla has been in production for over 2 years, has nearly 1500 vehicles on the road and has over 6,000,000 customer miles logged. The world's largest car company Toyota has given Tesla $50,000,000 to show it how to make vehicles again as did the world's oldest car company, Mercedes Benz. Both companies are now purchasing motors and batteries from Tesla to power its future vehicles, available in US showrooms next year. Toyota and Mercedes, powered by Tesla.

Fisker by contrast, was "showered with money" receiving $754,000,000 from the Gov't of tax payer's money, compared to the $430,000,000 Tesla got. The big difference here is that Fisker has 0 production cars, 0 working protypes, no finished schematics, the company they are using for their electrics have never been associated with nor produced a vehicle nor a working model and the hundreds of millions were ONLY to go to companies making ELECTRIC cars and the only car Fisker has on the board right now is a hybrid! Better yet, since the quarter billion dollar "loan" Fisker has boat a new yacht, mansion and can be seen advertising in every luxury magazine the world over, taking $50K deposits on a car it is likely to never produce. That my friend is real scam.

Tesla is made in CA, which some parts being outsourced, but the next vehicle will be made completely in CA, metal stamping on down. The Range Rover/Prius comparison is silly. Range Rovers are part Ford, part Mazda, part Jaguar. That car is a far bigger mut than the Prius.

Manual transmissions, and transmissions in general are obsolete. They are old technology designed for vehicles that have power and torque curves. They require servicing, fluid changes, seal replacements and need to be replaced or rebuilt. Electric motors have 100% torque at all RPMs, that is why the Tesla has no transmission.

Most Tesla owners power their cars with 100% solar power. Think about it. 250 miles on a charge, 0-60 in 3.7 seconds. It takes 3 hours to fully recharge it if you have gone 250 miles, otherwise you can just top it off nightly like a cell phone. No oil changes, no oil spills. one $600 annual service for a firmware update. Pretty simple.

john Sep 16th 2010 1:10PM

its not worth it imagine getting yr butt kciked by a kid who has a 50k speed boat with a big engine enough said only the whimpy 1% will indulge in this piece of s%6t

john Sep 16th 2010 1:18PM

tesla the big greeeen hoggg imagine 500k people using tesla in LA california hahahahahahahaha as if california doesnt already have a shortage of eletrcity tesla junk for 100k proice tag and then your eletric bill goes from 40 a month to 700 hahahahaha and yr in montana and get strabnded as yr wimpy butt will be told no on running a 500 eletric bill at some motel or any where else keey yr kjunk in the cities they have no use any where else , the usual fun day trip is from spokane washingtom to seattle and it wont even make it especially at 80 mph they failt to tell you 250 miles is at 55 mph not 80 mph at 80 mph this junk will only go 50 to 100 miles these are things this fat creep elon musjky or whom the looser is dont tell you chris is right 100% itll take alot of gas shipping all this junk around as most batteries are heavy and labled special handling it doesnt make sense to save 150 in gasoline to spend 1500 a month in eltricty thats why i call em the greeeen hogs bev shut the hell up you sound like some stinky american sales ladyt trying to make a buck