Leather seats, touch screens.

[jjeff]

Why? Just curious what folks think of these.

The John Deere Gator to Replace Your Car

John Deere’s new line of Gators bring the premium cab features of a pickup truck and tractor to the UTV.

www.agriculture.com

 

[mikester]

Considering the prices charged for UTV's they should be gold plating the wheel and providing a lifetime supply of vaseline.

 

[Rockbadchild]

more things to break... That's one way to make it un affordable, at that price you are better to buy a use pickup truck with big tires and a lift kit.

 

[Torvy]

For those prices I would just get a second tractor for the Mrs. Haha

 

[Citydude]

It has 16 tie down points in the box for the groceries.

 

[RickB]

While probably not crowd favorites here you can be sure those options will sell and sell briskly with great margins.

 

[KennyG]

The luxury items are where the profit is. The touch entertainment center is probably dirt cheap now that they are used in such volume. Adding a backup camera is probably only a $20 addition. If they are like cars, having high margin units allows the base model price to be low.

 

[PuffyC]

Probably going the way of pickups trucks. Farming folks think a stripped down single cab long box is ideal whereas the rich urban cowboy wants leather, self-driving, a Bose stereo and massaging seats for $80,000. Guess which one they sell more of?

 

[RickB]

How many Oklahoma ranchers do you know that drive new standard cab trucks?

 

[Paystar]

Here in Canada where I am, a new XUV835M is $35,000. So I'm betting the R with the cloth interior is pushing 40 grand.
I personally think the prices for any new ATV/UTV are ridiculous. There is nothing to any of these machines that make them worth that much.
I only paid $39,000 last Sept for my brand new F150XLT with the employee pricing and that truck has way more components in it than a UTV.

For those prices that Deere should come standard with all the features of that new special edition.

Looks like a nice machine, I just wouldn't be dumb enough to pay that for it.