we just bought a 4 wheeler last year and it was a honda racher ES (electric Shift) no problems with it and like subble jumper said its ez on gas. we have it on the farm and we use it just about every day. for checkin cows during calving, fencing and hunting and well just screwin around. we have over 2 thousand miles on it in one year. it runs great. have a buddy that has had a honda 4 wheeler for 15 yrs and was waiting for it to die before he got a new one but it never did so he finaly went in and bought another honda. they are super reliable and no maintence. plus scence ii live on a farm i put our 4 wheeler through some tough tests and its done real well. i say hondas the way to go