^{Excerpts from Popular Science, August 2007}

You know that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when a rollercoaster slips over the edge of a huge drop? I got it the first time I grabbed a fistful of throttle on Yamaha’s 2008 FX Cruiser SHO WaveRunner. And I liked it.

The FX Cruiser packs one of the most powerful and cleanest-running engines in the industry: a 1.8-liter, supercharged  four stroke.

But the big news is the WaveRunner’s ultralight hull—the first to use nanotechnology. Instead of handlaying a traditional fiberglass-and-resin hull, Yamaha combines fiberglass resin with nanoscale particles of clay, melding it all together in a high compression mold. This new recipe links molecules together in an overlapping design that boosts strength and stiffness while reducing weight by 25 percent.