Opinion please on Mercruiser boats and general boat-buying?

Please TELL ME, AS A MANUFACTURER, what you think of their products. For example when buying a car, one may choose a Hyundai over a Kia or a Dodge over a Ford for various reasons… So what's the 4-1-1 on Mercury Mercruiser?

I'm looking to find out what makes a good deal when looking for a boat. All I know thus far is to look for things such as damages/lack thereof, number of hours on the motor, and type of engine. Is there anything else I need to research or questions I will want to ask if I approach a dealer and don't want to be taken to the cleaners?

Buying up American companies?

I was asked what is one thing I would actually like to see happen, if I actually bought the queen Elizabeth Islands from Canada, and made an industrialized country there.

I said that I would like to see us start a company like this… "Augusta"…
And have it purchase Caterpillar, John Deere, CNH Industrial, AGCO, Toro, Ingersoll-Rand, De-Walt, Woodmizer,
Hyster-Yale, Crown Forklifts…
Halliburton, P&H Mining, Schramm, JCB Mining equipment and Joy Global.

Ford, Lincoln, GM and all the Chrysler Brands and Tesla… Land Rover and Jaguar.
Navistar, Freightliner and Paccar and Oshkosh trucks.
Allison Transmissions.

Bombardier, Nova Bus, New Flyer bus, and MCI coaches…

General Electric, Westinghouse…

Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics and Textron and United Technologies,
Carrier and Trane…

Hewlett Packard, Xerox, Gateway, Dell Technologies, Motorola, IBM, View Sonic, Vizio, Microsoft and Apple… Intel, Oracle and Adobe…

And make a company like Mitsubishi's conglomerate…

And save them, by getting them out of the USA, making them here on the islands…

And putting engineers and quality control personnel in charge of their corporate operations and make sure that they're using the metric system. Buying up American companies - 1

Why would it take 3 days for a Ford Dealer to get a water pump?

Why would it take 3 days for a Ford Dealer to get a water pump? - 1

Added (1). A Water Pump seems like a very common part to go bad, why wouldn't they keep them in stock?

Added (2). A Water Pump seems like a very common part to go bad, why wouldn't they keep them in stock?

Complete engine and brake system replacement?

My uncle passed recently and left me his old car. It's a 1959 Ford Galaxie. I don't know anything about cars, but he had to give it to someone and I'm his only niece (… Only young relative, actually). It looks fine, nothing is falling apart or rusted into garbage. But it needs a new engine and a new brake system. I have an engine already (from an old Mercury, I think? It's a "390"). The car is automatic and has power steering but not brakes, I'm told. So what am I looking at paying to have the engine put in? And what about the brakes? What would it cost to have the brakes replaced with their regular non-powered old "drum" brakes? What about powered "drum" brakes, or newer "disc" brakes? I don't want to be taken advantage of paying at the shop. I'm sorry I don't know anything about this or if I said something dumb. I appreciate any answers on price or advice on what I should say to the auto shop people.