My 20ft robalo came with a pair of 70hp force motors I never ran it with them but the previous owner bought the pair in '94 new and used them until I bought the boat in '03. He said he loved them and had no major problems with them. I have no personal experience with force only OMC and Merc and the mercury taught me a valuable lesson, NO MORE MERCURYS, I'm still trying to recover financially from it. Thats why i'm stuck patching old omcs to keep fishing. Anyway good luck with the force, I beleive it just really depends on which day of the week the motor was built.