Posts: 1189
Location: Bagley,MN 56621 | Yamaha won the 2002 J.D.Power Award for "Highest Customer Satisfaction" rating for both their 2 and 4 stroke motors, they make an awesome product!!!!!
To add to some of the conversation about 2 vs 4-strokes.........My personal experience has been with Direct Fuel Injected (DFI) motors...i.e. Merc Opti-Max,Yamaha HPDI,Evinrude Ficht.
As a salesman we sell a TON of 4-strokes, but they are 140 HP and less, mostly due to the market in this area looking for a size of boat that those smaller HP motors work well with. The larger boats seem to have been going out the door with 2 strokes, whether that have EFI or DFI motors on them.
4-stroke technology is here to stay and only getting better with fuel injection and manufactures making lighter motors.
shooting from the hip here, w/o a price book in front of me, but I believe the DFI's will be somewhat less upfront cost than 4-strokes, but repairs and maintenance are higher, i.e extended warranties, brain boxes,etc. At this time in the game DFI's in the 200 HP plus range have an advantage for weight,torque,holeshot,topend etc......but won't take long for manufactures to even out the performance spread....after 2006 the EPA reg's will only allow DFI and 4-strokes to be manufactured due to emission ratings.
|
