An honest airplane. It is one of the only planes I know of that can carry it's own weight (empty wt approx 2600, max 5200). The later models had increased fuel capacity, which is great and it's still very hard to overweight the thing. 188 gal=1250sh pounds, which still leaves 1350 lbs for 6 pax and bags. You do trade off speed with the hershey bar wing, but you do get rough and short field performance and it's very stable for IFR. And it is one of the only light twins that will climb out at gross wt on one engine. The down side is that you are still "paying" for the 6 seats in fuel cost even when they are empty.
To sum up: Expensive, sturdy, slow hauler. Works good- lasts long time.