The car and yacht sectors have a growing number of technological factors in common, with innovation in both areas focused on sparking client emotions to ensure that the onboard/in-car experience is completely rewarding as well as enhancing other aspects such as safety and user-friendliness. Equally, in an effort to set new trends, we see frequent crossovers between the car and yacht design worlds with both using evocative forms to underscore the values that make the difference in a design, not least uniqueness and personalization.
Lexus, the luxury brand of Toyota, Japan’s leading car manufacturer, recently presented its Sport Yacht, a high performance 12.8m fast commuter. This is an iconic craft from a design perspective and sports the very best that today’s tech can offer in terms of systems, apparatus and engines. In short, it is a genuine Lexus in its own right. Driven by two edgy 5-litre petrol V8s, obviously Lexus, which unleash their power into the water via inboard-outboard units with stern drives, the Lexus Sport Yacht uses a XENTA steering system. This choice by the Japanese designers very clearly reflects the tenor of the boat and is the perfect tech complement to the exclusive lifestyle epitomized by Lexus’s cars and based on indisputably superior driving pleasure and comfort.
“We are proud that a marque as importance as Lexus has chosen the XENTA steering system for its Sport Yacht,” declared Stefano Bertazzoni who co-founded and now co-owns XENTA with Lorenzo Mongiardo. “The goal we set ourselves for our Integrated Control Systems for yachts and superyachts is the same too: we want to guarantee all boating enthusiasts the feeling of absolute mastery – perfect control of every single maneuver – that the latest cars guarantee their drivers on the road”.