I would have comments on two parts of this discussion. From my own experience with the Verado I would not recommend one. When I purchased the 200hp Verado it would have represented what I thought was going to be the most advanced, best motor I would have owned to date. It has been anything but. Several small items, that ruined fishing weekends and a couple major items, with the last one ruining my annual fishing week with my two sons and our last month of fishing and or boating, as apparently parts are perpetually out of stock. Of 5 people I know well wit Verado’s 3 are as I have described two all ok. I also have several friends running E-Tec and not one has ever had an issue.