I had a Ford GPW that I was working on restoring and hoping to run around on my property. I never did get it running, but I did sell it for twice what I paid for it on Ebay. Then I had a golf cart for a little while to run around the place and quickly realized how handy it was. I also had a four wheeler, but that was rarely used. Half the time I took it it, I just wanted to make sure the battery was charged and that it was in working order. That led me on my quest on what to buy. In the end, I liked the Mule the best. I've been on and driven quite a few other brands and haven't found anything that I like better for my purposes. It's used every single day by somebody here. My mom gets the mail in it, my dad hauls the garbage can to the street with it, Karen will use it to check on the horses, or come check on me while I'm out on the tractor, friends come over and use it to go down to the pond, or go shooting at our range. If I have a project, it's what I take with the bed loaded up with tools and materials. If a tractor breaks down, it sits there while the Mule goes back and forth. After it rains, the mud is impossible to walk on, it just builds up and you slip and slide all over the place. In 4wd, the Mule just goes through all of it with the factory stock tires. Same thing when it snows here. When we light the burn pile, somebody is always sitting in the mule with fire extinguishers and buckets of water in case an ember drifts off. The roof makes it comfortable out in the sun, or we just park in the shade where there is a good view. The list goes on and on, but the best thing is how reliable it is. It starts every time, you never have to wrench on it and anybody from a ten year old to those in their 80's can handle it easily.
