Leadership in High Performance Large Engines

You gotta feel the other engine makers Cat and MAN, as they entered the thirty litre or more, 2000hp plus high performance marine engine sector in recent years, MTU throws them a boomerang.  Long story short MTU presents the 26.8 litre 12V2000 M96Z at 2,222hp.  That is some important juice for a sub thirty litre engine.

After dominating the market since the end of the noughties first with the MTU Series 2000 M96 2400hp arriving in 2006, then with M96L at 2600hp which arrived three years later.  The M96 engine has dominated the market for super yachts around and above the thirty meters size since arriving, with competition coming fifteen years later; first from Cat in 2021 with the 32.1 litre C32B 2450hp, and then MAN in 2022 with the 29.6 litre block 2200hp V12X.  It was getting interesting with choice for the customer and yacht maker, although as at today the 36 litre MTU still very much dominates this market.

Now this new 26 litre engine, see MTU look at making things lighter and higher performing and entering in competition with the MAN and its 24 litre V12 2000hp engine.  While MTU dominated the market around thirty meters, MAN looked at under that size and and for those looking and under 2000hp.  The result was the MAN V12-2000 which arrived in 2018.  

Now with this new 26 litre engine MTU bring 200 extra horses of power, with two litres more in displacement, and about half a ton more in weight in dry condition versus the MAN V12-2000.  Result is advantage MTU of .13kg/hp, or 1.32 kilogram per horsepower which is the same as the 2600hp M96L.