Are ATVs/UTVs overpriced?

[Sprinkler Fitter]

Jeep - JK, JL YJ - models of Wranglers.

We have a JK and like it but the SxS is way better on rough roads/trails.

Didn’t know there was a JL. I have had many CJ7’s, a few TJ’s and one Gladiator. Never a JL though.

Some say why not buy a Jeep instead of a side by side but in Minnesota there are many more miles of ATV/UTV trails than Jeep trails.

 

[ultrarunner]

I went with Suzuki Samurai and find it does everything I need and cheap to keep.

I gave a 1000 for it about 25 years ago.

 

[Code54]

JL is the newest, I think it was released in 2017.

They do ride and handle a little better than the previous years.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

I went with Suzuki Samurai and find it does everything I need and cheap to keep.

I gave a 1000 for it about 25 years ago.

$1000 would be nice but like I said you can’t use none of them in Minnesota on the ATV/UTV trails. So thousands of us by side-by-sides and ATVs. Maybe we are the only state with that rule.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I went with Suzuki Samurai and find it does everything I need and cheap to keep.

I gave a 1000 for it about 25 years ago.

I bought an ex Postal Jeep about that long ago for $600, converted it to 4WD, installed an onboard welder, compressor, etc., which made it a very useful vehicle.

Still have it, but these days the Can-Am Defender is getting used more than the Jeep is. There are many things the Can-Am is better at, and vice versa.

 

[arto98607]

I have bought 3 new atvs, a 2012 Sportsman 400HO, sold it and bought a 2021 Rancher footshift, sold that and bought a 23 Sportsman 570 EPS.

The 400HO was 5,699 plus taxes and such, the Rancher cost 1/3 more than the 400HO, and the 570 was twice the 400HO.

Each machine cost more, but was better refined than the previous model that it replaced.

I guess it depends on ones needs, I am happy with my purchases.

The new SxS are real sweet too, but for me, I would buy a 2 door JL first.

The inflation was about 33% from 2012 to 2023 so they were not the same dollars.

Just saying.

 

[Joel/ak]

Here in MI on alot of the trails is a 60" max width rule, hell, even alot of the sxs's aren't technically legal. Although DNR doesn't say to much about it unless your driving like an ass.

When we got our '22 mule pro MX I crapped my pants at the 14k price....and that's cheap

 

[ArlyA]

And we paid 22K for our Outlander 6x6!! No jeep will replace

 

[JeepHead]

Here in MI on alot of the trails is a 60" max width rule, hell, even alot of the sxs's aren't technically legal. Although DNR doesn't say to much about it unless your driving like an ass.

When we got our '22 mule pro MX I crapped my pants at the 14k price....and that's cheap

I think a Mule will be my next purchase as well. Have read nothing but great things about them and I need more of a work machine than a sport machine. I still regret not swapping the old man this summer for his Kubota 900 RTV diesel sxs with only 400 hours. He wanted to swap me even for my new Honda Rubicon because his RTV was too big to get into his woods. Which is also why I bought the Rubicon to begin with, was to make trails through the woods.

 

[John_Mc]

I thought the Kawasaki Mule looked good as well. I was looking for a smaller UTV (I use the tractor for larger jobs.) For me, it came down to between the Mule and the Honda Pioneer 520. I ended up with the 520 since I just could not find a dealer near me that stocked the Mule. (I also found a deal on a 1 year old Pioneer.)