I probably would have bought a honda I have had hondas before they are engineered very very well. The only thing that stopped me from a buying another honda is because the fact they stopped using stainless steel sleeves on there aluminum cylinder. I bought a ZTR mower awhile back had a honda engine on it, was the first and last honda engine I ever owned since they stopped using a stainless steel cylinder sleeve. I had an older honda 3 wheeler I sold 6 years ago, it had the stainless steel cylinder sleeve it had atleast 3,000 hours on it and it still would start run flawlessly after 10 years of abuse and 3 owners, the guy i sold it still has it and it still runs great the only thing he had to do to it was replace the carberator and piston rings, back to the Honda powered ZTR mower, I put a little over 500 hours on that mower and the honda engine pooped on me, My warranty was up on it[:@], took it to a shop guess what? the cylinder was shot.