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Cigarette wins praise worldwide

by Bob Wonders on 5 Aug 2010
The fabulous Cigarette 38 Top Gun, long one of the company’s favourite models. Cigarette Racing
That most iconic high-performance marque, Cigarette Racing Team, has won kudos from two of the world's best-known publishers.

The world-renowned the Robb Report, a luxury lifestyle publication and California-based Powerboat Magazine, long acknowledged as 'the bible' of high-performance boating, have both honoured the famous Florida manufacturer.

In its August, 2010 edition, the Robb Report carried a feature titled 'The top 10 Toys of Summer.'

It listed such desirable 'toys' as the Audi R8 Spyder and the Porsche Boxster and on the boating side named Cigarette's 39 Top Fish as #1 in its field.

The Robb Report stated that Cigarette Racing Team had 'ventured beyond its signature racers while staying true to its swift and sturdy heritage.'

Describing itself as 'the international authority on the luxury lifestyle', the Robb Report lavished praise on the Cigarette marque. The publication says to receive mention a product must be manufactured by a company with standards of quality consistent with the brands regularly included in the Robb Report.

Readers of Powerboat Magazine took part in that publication's first annual on-line survey and named the Cigarette Racing Team as 'favourite V-bottom manufacturer.'

Cigarette triumphed despite being up against an astonishing 60 different categories in the survey. Responses to the survey came from across the United States, Canada, Europe and Scandinavia.

Skip Braver, CEO of Cigarette Racing Team, said the company was ‘proud' to receive such recognition. 'There is no finer compliment to our brand,' he declared.

'I assure all that the entire Cigarette team makes every effort every day to ensure that we produce the finest powerboats on the market.

Skip Braver was equally delighted with the company's ‘appearance' in the Robb Report. 'Inclusion in the Top 10 Toys of Summer means a great deal to us,' he said. 'The Robb Report recognises quality and performance and that is our legacy and our on-going commitment.

'We believe the 39 Top Fish adds an attractive component to our range, it remains a Cigarette in every sense in that it's more than a boat, it's a lifestyle,' he added.


The company, founded in 1969 by the late Don Aronow, known as 'the Godfather' of high-performance boating, has expanded its product line in recent years, introducing the Top Fish models, diesel power and earlier this year a link with Mercedes-Benz AMG-inspired model powered by Mercury Racing's latest 1350hp engines.

No need to point out that it 'stole the show' at the Miami International Boat Show in February.

For further information visit the website, www.cigaretteracing.com

Australian inquiries contact Mark Chapman, CRS Yachts, Sydney, telephone (02)9327-8829.

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