On Nov 1, 9:30*am, Art wrote:
. The emissions standards have
been steadily tightened which forces current engines off the market
after just a few years. That requires a pretty big on-going r&d expense
to stay in the engine business. Gone are the days of designing an engine
and building the same thing for 20 years with only minor changes.

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yeah, that's only gonna get tighter. good idea to bail.

although i've been watching those evinrude etec engines in a kind of
half-interested way.