Etec sinks Yamaha

More torque yes! better hole shot yes, less weight yes, more dependable? less maint? as fuel efficient as 4 stroke? I doubt it & Im going to have to see that for myself before I believe it. These infomercials dont impress me & they really screw up late night tv. They can do anything on tv. I saw a dog talking on tv the other day on a Bush's bean commercial but I dont believe dogs can talk.
Johnson / Evinrude lost allot of their long time customers when they went tits up a few years back and left allot of customers holding the bag with warrenties that were worthless. They also were claiming the FICHT outboards were better than the 4 strokes back in Y2K and they turned out to be CRAP! They are going to have to get some of these ETECH's out there and prove their worth before they get some of their old customers back that went to 4 strokes. I hope they are all they claim to be but Im going to be a show me kinda guy on this one.

Roll that beautiful bean footage! ;D