For anyone in the market for a new troller I thought I would offer my observations of my new Motorguide. Although I knew that Minn Kota is more often recommended than Motorguide, I bought a new varimax Motorguide 45# troller this week at Walmart. I had a 40# minn kota riptide and something on it broke at least once a month. At least after one trip, I would have to say the new motorguide is much better than the old minn kota. I know minn kota has redesigned the 40 (now a 45) but the price of the motorguide was much better considering that it has full digital controls. The transom mount is also much beefier than my old minn kota. We’ll see how it lasts, but the first impression was good.