---
title: "Mercedes’ First Yacht Is Finally for Sale"
description: "Four years after the concept was introduced, the brand's $1.7 million Arrow 460 takes to the seas."
date: "2016-04-18"
modified: "2016-04-18"
authors:
  - name: "Ben Keeshin"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/3056/mercedes-first-yacht-is-finally-for-sale"
categories:
  - "Mercedes-Benz News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "boats"
  - "Mercedes-Benz"
---

# Mercedes’ First Yacht Is Finally for Sale

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Despite the joy apparent in [James Corden's recent Entertainment Weekly cover](<https://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/i/2016/03/16/cover-ew-james-corden-1407.jpg>), an mid-Eighties S-Class isn't the best Daimler vehicle to take into the water—especially considering that, four years after the concept debuted, Mercedes-Benz is finally sending its Arrow 460 Granturismo Edition 1 out to sea. Mercedes is sending their first boat, a nearly-1000 horsepower pleasure craft, to cruise the coast of the French Riviera. It is, of course, silver, and looks a lot like the brand's hot-selling AMG GT-S, but unfurled to a luxurious 47-foot length; it has the footprint of a school bus, but the grace of one of the smaller and more nimble whales.

For a price of $1.7 million, Mercedes aficionados and fancy seamen alike can purchase one of the ten boats made by Mercedes-Benz Style, the design sub-brand in charge of the yacht, provided that he is the first person in his country of origin to submit a deposit. The Chairman of the project, Ron Gibbs, has been quoted saying that the one-per-country rule was instated so that "we can guarantee that just one individual in each country will be able to say: 'I am the first captain of the first Silver Arrow of the seas.'" (To deny anyone such a pleasure should be punishable at the Hague.)

![0418160-mercedes-amg-boat-art-1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/0418160-mercedes-amg-boat-art-1.jpg>)

Specs-wise, the fancy boat will have twin 480-horsepower diesel engines, a nubuck leather- and eucalyptus wood-trimmed interior, a wine cellar, and photo-sensitive auto-dimming glass stolen from Maybach. Ten passengers fit in the cabin, though all ten belong on the deck.

![0418160-mercedes-amg-boat-art-2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/0418160-mercedes-amg-boat-art-2.jpg>)

It's exciting to finally see the boat in the flesh, and yet: How long, really, before all are purchased and secreted away in a boathouse with more square footage than a Westchester ranch house? Get your kicks now, or start working in earnest for an invite aboard.

## Author
Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair.

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