I talked to a guy the other day at the gas dock that had a new 90 E-tech and was very impressed. I was suprised as he used to run a yammie carbed 2 stroke 115 on his skiff . I wonder if they will be johnnyrudes or just an evinrude market deal or if any old johnson dealer can work on them. I wonder how much a 115 saltwater version would go for with controls etc. The zukie 4 strokes have really taken over down here in eastern north carolina with dealers everwhere, high customer satisfaction , 6 year warranties , excellent customer service that you dont need to take them to court over ( which I had to do with Merc) etc etc. Even the commercial on the water every day water men are running zukies with yammies a close second especially the 115 4 stroke.. A good friend of mine is a Merc dealer and I can get anything at his cost but after the last Opti 225( two catastropic power head failures in less than 150 hours and the second one was 26 miles off shore) I dont think I could ever run another Merc but thats just me..Frank