- D-Torque

The NEANDER Dtorque Turbo Diesel sets a new benchmark in diesel engineering, especially for outboard motors. Its 800cm³ twin-cylinder aluminium powerhead delivers a lusty 50hp at the propeller shaft. But what’s more remarkable is its torque output. Peaking at 111Nm at 2,500rpm, that’s more than the best-performing 70hp 4-valve technology electronic fuel injected four-stroke gasoline outboards on the market today.
This gives the Dtorque exceptional lugging ability as well as the ability to get onto the plane quickly, and both with modest fuel consumption. Here, it scores outstandingly. Expect little more than 10 to 12 litres per hour at full throttle,
the kind of figure that a 70hp gasoline outboard would be returning at 2,000rpm before its steep climb towards 30 to 40 litres per hour flat-out at full load. (Source: magazine “boote”)
All this, as well as emissions well within the latest EU limits, is with state-of-the-art common rail fuel injection (BOSCH), but NEANDER’s unique innovation is its dual counter-rotating crankshaft design. By generating opposite forces, the two shafts cancel out most of the vibrations and moments around the steering axis that would otherwise make such a small and powerful twin-cylinder diesel outboard hard to handle.