It's a [censored] sandwich of a poor business plan

They won't survive after this covid deal shakes out, aluminum boats with engineering issues and glass boats that have the worst looks in the industry.

You and about a million others Roger

I was at the glass boat test ride day last year on lake Arlington

I like them a LOT and I had been shopping with a buddy looking at every brand available.

The pickle fork works really well get a lot more usable space without a giant boat.

I asked prices and they quoted mid 70s... Which was dead nuts same as about every other major brand

The vx20 is almost 80k not even loaded. That’s a 20 foot boat from a unestablished boat maker for $80k.

The boats i looked at loaded were north of 90K

The Vexus plant is state of the art and all new. It's Forrest Woods family that owns and runs the company. They were operating Ranger when the holding company that owned Ranger sold it to Johnnie Morris who promptly ran them off. After a non compete agreement expired they started Vexus. I think they built the plant during the non compete timeframe. Its located just down the road from the Ranger plant. So they basically are the former Ranger company with the same leadership and design engineers pre Johnnie Morris. Now that Ranger has decided to no longer make their own trailers and laid most if not all of those people off, Vexus will be the closest thing to Ranger of the past as far as quality/customer service. Ranger this year also closed their refurbish/warranty shop and laid all those people off as well. There were Ranger owners that had their boats on the waiting list as much as two years to have either warranty work on their hulls or at the owners expense getting major refurbishing done. For a lot of buyers, being able to get a factory refurbish was one of Rangers top selling points. Ranger notified them "we're sorry, we don't do that work at the factory anymore." That was even with boat owners that had firm orders/dates from Ranger to drop their boats off. I assume people who had already dropped off their boat at the factory had to go and pick them up and were not worked on. As far as the price of the Vexus glass boats, $90 K is not unheard of. I was looking at a 2018 Legend that was decked out at Ron Hoover Marine in Katy that listed for $103 K. That same year Johnnie Morris bought Legend and shut them down. No more lifetime haul warranty for Legend owners as well.

This was last year at launch basically... I'm just telling you what they showed us that day

Maybe a low number to get buyers early?

VX-20 starts at $76,435
VX-21 starts at $77,856
Like anything else, add options and the price goes up.

Yep, Ultrex or Ghost, two if not three 12 inch graphs, power poles, boat cover, there is an additional 15K real quick, I am sure I am missing a few options like hydraulic jack plate, 300R, etc, I am speaking from experience, lol.

I just rehabbed all my electronics to garmin, 3 9", force 57", livescope, all self installed came to just under 8k total retail value (I got a deal on 2 93sv plus and saved about 400 or so on livescope).

up the screen size to all 10s and you have 10k in electronics

I'm loving the high new prices, my ole 95 champion 202 is paid for, outfitted with all the latest greatest except for a repower in the near future, 200 xri efi now and want a 300xs or a 250.
used prices are reflecting new prices going up too I think.

Pretty much priced in line with everyone else. Add the options and they all can push 100k or more.

I'm loving the high new prices, my ole 95 champion 202 is paid for, outfitted with all the latest greatest except for a repower in the near future, 200 xri efi now and want a 300xs or a 250.
used prices are reflecting new prices going up too I think.


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👍🏻 That’s my thinking as well.

True but you would expect a brand new company to start out below the top of the line boats, much like Triton, legend, and Phoenix did, get a few skins on the wall before you claim you are the second coming. Don't get me wrong, the boats are awesome but they look gaudy, I think they missed the boat on capturing a market share, I think they have a long road to hoe, if not for the tin boats they would be in big trouble, jmo.

I would also add this about Vexus. The depth of the hull is excessive for 99.2% of the water bass anglers fish. From the top of the gunwales to the bottom of the vee it is massive. It doesn't look so out of proportion on the 21' boat but on the 20 it does. I happened to be at a dealer when a nice gentleman was picking his up.

I snapped a pic. Notice how the boat dwarfs the new V8 Merc 250 and the man standing in the boat. It has the looks of a multi-species boat for the great lakes. I am not saying this makes it a bad boat. It has some great innovative features. I am just saying I do not think the overall look of the boat will appeal to the masses like Ranger, Skeeter, Triton, etc.