as an owner of both, the best way to describe the hornet is its like a norty unschooled horse that will do what it feels like when it feels like it, and for that reason i love it, the fazer on the other hand is like a well schooled horse, show it a corner, and you are round and off onto the straight before you know it, it will always do what you ask it to in a well mannered way, i love them both for very different reasons, and the tank size was never really an issue, most people i rode with wanted a fag stop anyway lol