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My highly biased 2 cents worth,

That car engine in the inboard will almost always warn you before it breaks, often long before, if you are listening. Further, many of the things that go wrong with an inboard can be fixed by you. Outboards have a nasty habit of quitting with no warning. They are less maintenance and more reliable than inboards, but the no warning thing gets to me.

If you go with the inboard, get a wider set of gauges than comes with the boat, vacuum gauge, oil temp, fuel pressure, raw water pressure will help in seeing problems coming, some of the cheapest insurance you can buy.