2009 Polaris XP

[barneyrb]

I just bought a 2009 Polaris XP. So far I am very happy with this machine as it will be my primary hunting buggy and also for some light work. Any reports good or bad on this machine? Has anyone bought a top hard or soft? Windshield?

 

[bmac]

I picked up the same thing weekend before last to replace a 500 Sportsman. I think it will be a much more useful work vehicle around here. And, now my son doesn't complain about taking the garbage out to the street.

I used mine last weekend to help at a local high school band competition. We towed trailers loaded with band equipment from the staging area down to the field and back. On one trip, I had to laugh as the guy in front of me was pulling a trailer with a Gator. There was this little hill and the Gator could not make it up the incline. Some students had to get out and push. The Ranger made it up in One Wheel Drive with no trouble.

Now, I'm not bashing Gators or making any generalizations because of this one incident. He may have been towing a heavier trailer - I don't know. But, ladies at the top of the hill gave me a standing O for cruising up unassisted.

I'll be interested to read replies about cabs and windshields. I see potential for mucho $$$ in mods with these things.

 

[jcmseven]

Bmac,

What kind of Gator? I could see this with a 4x2 or a 6x4 but my XUV can pull a 3000# 22' 14K utility trailer up our rutted 300' driveway with a 20% pitch. I doubt the band equipment weighed more than this (nor do a recommend towing this much weight with either a Gator or a Ranger for safety reasons).

John M

 

[bmac]

Bmac,

What kind of Gator? I could see this with a 4x2 or a 6x4 but my XUV can pull a 3000# 22' 14K utility trailer up our rutted 300' driveway with a 20% pitch. I doubt the band equipment weighed more than this (nor do a recommend towing this much weight with either a Gator or a Ranger for safety reasons).

John M

John,

I'm not sure but I think it was a 4x2. Again, I was just offering what I thought was a humorous anecdote for this new Ranger owner to kind of pump him up about his new purchase. No disprespect to Gators or their owners. I always thought that Gators were more of a workhorse than the Ranger, Mule, Rhino, etc. I was surprised to see it labor under what I would call routine use.

 

[nmu98]

I picked up the same thing weekend before last to replace a 500 Sportsman. I think it will be a much more useful work vehicle around here. And, now my son doesn't complain about taking the garbage out to the street.

I used mine last weekend to help at a local high school band competition. We towed trailers loaded with band equipment from the staging area down to the field and back. On one trip, I had to laugh as the guy in front of me was pulling a trailer with a Gator. There was this little hill and the Gator could not make it up the incline. Some students had to get out and push. The Ranger made it up in One Wheel Drive with no trouble.

Now, I'm not bashing Gators or making any generalizations because of this one incident. He may have been towing a heavier trailer - I don't know. But, ladies at the top of the hill gave me a standing O for cruising up unassisted.

I'll be interested to read replies about cabs and windshields. I see potential for mucho $$$ in mods with these things.

OMG, your Ranger must have super powers to make it up a hill in one wheel drive that a Gator could not make it up at all. What color is it? Does it glow at night. Did you pound your chest when you made it up the hill. Did any of the ladies cheering throw themselves at you and offer up threesomes?

I have to get a ranger.....

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

yea that must have been a super power ranger like you said.lol even a 4x2 gator should have been able to pull a load up a hill. i seen ranger squat to the ground with a few ice chest in the bed and a few guys in the front seats and i pass by with almost 12 people packed into my hpx just a truckin on by. them rangers are nice but if you load them up they squat so low they nearly scrape the ground. i still would like to see one with a true 1klbs in the bed.

 

[barneyrb]

OMG, your Ranger must have super powers to make it up a hill in one wheel drive that a Gator could not make it up at all. What color is it? Does it glow at night. Did you pound your chest when you made it up the hill. Did any of the ladies cheering throw themselves at you and offer up threesomes?

I have to get a ranger.....

Dang, you mean that ladies will be throwing themselves at me now? Another added benifit of owning a Ranger

 

[turbo36]

OMG, your Ranger must have super powers to make it up a hill in one wheel drive that a Gator could not make it up at all. What color is it? Does it glow at night. Did you pound your chest when you made it up the hill. Did any of the ladies cheering throw themselves at you and offer up threesomes?

I have to get a ranger.....

This is really uncalled for, bmac isn't someone prone to provoking controversy just to cause a fight, if he said it happened it probably did.

 

[TOMMYHPX4X4]

i'm sure he was only joking.

 

[bmac]

This is really uncalled for, bmac isn't someone prone to provoking controversy just to cause a fight, if he said it happened it probably did.

Thanks for the kind words and support, turbo.

To TommyHPX4x4 and nmu98, I 'm sorry that you were offended by my little story. However, if you would actually read the entirity of both of my first two posts, you would have seen that I specifically stated that I was not making any generalizations about Gators in general, that I've always held Gators in high esteem as a work vehicle (more so than Rangers, etc), and that I was merely offering encouragement to a new Ranger owner.

However, the story is, indeed, true. I don't have an explanation for why, on this occassion, one of your beloved machines failed to perform as expected. But, it did. And were I a Gator owner, I don't think I'd lose much sleep over it.