Are ATVs/UTVs overpriced?

[Code54]

All the vehicles have different uses. My Wrangler gets me to work if the weather is bad, or takes us to dinner if we want. Our ATVs are fun trail machines when we want to cruise the the Hatfield McCoy trails for an afternoon. Our Talon is for rock crawling, and going where Jeeps would have to be heavily "built" to wheel. The RTV is for working at the house, and a quick ride to see neighbors. The truck pulls any of the above, hauls stuff from Home Depot and tows the dump trailer.

All have their uses and work for me. I would not take my pickup in the woods where the Talon wheels nor would I use the Talon to tow my dump trailer to get gravel.

Everyone has different uses and buys what works for them. Some buy more than one and that's great if it is what they like. Done are "dumb" if the owner is happy and it fits their lifestyle.

 

[newbury]

At a measly 305 hp it's still quicker and faster than many of the original muscle cars, and (in my mind) a bargain compared to that JD UTV. Even though it doesn't come with a winch.

And on the street it can get by with a wench.

 

[ultrarunner]

For the farm the Kubota RTV900 is a real workhorse diesel.

I bought a Samurai for my side by side 25 years ago for $1050 and could easily for several times what I have in it…

For me it was good because I can take it on and off road…

 

[ArlyA]

In the past 10 years using the 2 atv's we've owned, our total for joy rides was 1. Maybe we are just boring people.

 

[Eagle1]

In the past 10 years using the 2 atv's we've owned, our total for joy rides was 1. Maybe we are just boring people. View attachment 871826

I guess that depends on definition of joy ride. If I just run around looking at my place, pick some berries or mushrooms, watch deer and squirrels is it a joy ride? Brings me much joy
I use a quad for most things work and relaxing to the tune of 4k+ per year and it seldom goes more than a mile or 3 from the house.

 

[JeepHead]

I guess that depends on definition of joy ride. If I just run around looking at my place, pick some berries or mushrooms, watch deer and squirrels is it a joy ride? Brings me much joy
I use a quad for most things work and relaxing to the tune of 4k+ per year and it seldom goes more than a mile or 3 from the house.

4K miles a year? I use my quad constantly, like every day, and it has under a 100 miles on it in 9 months. I need to plate it so I can start riding it to my area family members homes...

 

[Eagle1]

I've got 90 ac surrounded by National forest. Cattle are about 1/2 mile up the hill and I seem them at least twice a day. I run the dogs a few miles most days and right now put on several miles retrieving the puppies. Big dogs can cover some ground in a hurry. I have a lot fence and cross fence through the woods that needs checking. There is not a lot of flat ground here so quad beats walking up and down 300' of elevation change.
I live and work here (campground) so I'm on and off the quad or one of the tractors all day long.

 

[JeepHead]

I've got 90 ac surrounded by National forest. Cattle are about 1/2 mile up the hill and I seem them at least twice a day. I run the dogs a few miles most days and right now put on several miles retrieving the puppies. Big dogs can cover some ground in a hurry. I have a lot fence and cross fence through the woods that needs checking. There is not a lot of flat ground here so quad beats walking up and down 300' of elevation change.
I live and work here (campground) so I'm on and off the quad or one of the tractors all day long.

Can you ride on the national forest there? We have a large national forest by me but ATV's are strictly forbidden, as any motorized vehicles are (off road). In my younger years, all of us guys use to mud our trucks in the forest every weekend but the CO's started really crackin down on that.

 

[ArlyA]

Can you ride on the national forest there? We have a large national forest by me but ATV's are strictly forbidden, as any motorized vehicles are (off road). In my younger years, all of us guys use to mud our trucks in the forest every weekend but the CO's started really crackin down on that.

That's because they rip roads and forests up. Our NF has limited logging roads open for ATV's but at least some are open.

 

[tacticalturnip]

Machines don't rip the roads up, arseholes do. Care and responsibility can often make up for size.*

Some folks live to ruin things for the majority.



*I mean, within reason; the Space Shuttle crawler ought not be hitting the trails, no matter the operator.

 

[Eagle1]

If you see the destruction the loggers cause here on NF land you would not worry. I'm gentle on the land since I like to hunt and forage. The is NO way to get truck into the land locked piece of NF I frequent. Well until they log it again and cut road a couple of miles in from the old mine.
Been here 16 years only see the NF guys twice once to record tree growth on MY property because could not drive the truck to their property and again when they walked in to mark harvest trees in a 40ac parcel across the road.
Once they cut a logging road and leave all the slash behind it becomes a trash dump for the local morons. There NO cleanup after the loggers leave, they just hire someone to come in and drop everything over 6' tall (something like that) but not mature yet. Looks like a bomb went off but in 50 years it recovers.

 

[livemusic]

In the past 10 years using the 2 atv's we've owned, our total for joy rides was 1. Maybe we are just boring people. View attachment 871826

An ATV with a bed, what model is that?

 

[ArlyA]

We've personally owned two, they were both 6x6's.

 

[jmc]

... I need to plate it so I can start riding it to my area family members homes...

Have you looked into what Indiana requires to road it? I'd assumed turn signals etc, in addition to plates. Maybe even insurance.

We used to truck our MX bikes up to Michigan to run the fire trails. They let you ride on the berm, even near town. Seemed like a good business model.

 

[JeepHead]

Have you looked into what Indiana requires to road it? I'd assumed turn signals etc, in addition to plates. Maybe even insurance.

We used to truck our MX bikes up to Michigan to run the fire trails. They let you ride on the berm, even near town. Seemed like a good business model.

It just requires that I buy a sticker for it from the BMV.

 

[JDGREEN4ME]

YES

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

We are considering a CFmoto UTV... Folks around here are buying them often, and I won't pay $20k+ for a Polaris

 

[Darth_DMack]

I bought a 2021 Honda Talon 1000R (Live Valve) and loved it. Had it built up fairly well. I bought it completely based off of my brother's input. He has a 2018 Honda Pioneer 1000 (three seater) and he swore by the engine / transmission. I really did like my Talon, but the trails we ride here, are more technical and I rarely used High gear. We had a lot of fun in WV and TN, and even around here in SC / NC. But, I couldn't SEE out of the thing. I'm 6'3 and visibility was not great to the front, and non-existent to the rear.

Grudgingly, I sold it.

Fast forward to now. Now I have land, and a little hobby far. I recently bought a 2023 Yamaha RMax2 Limited Edition.... and this thing checks all of my boxes. It is as nimble (maybe a wee bit more) than my Talon was, every bit as fast as my Talon, yet has a dump bed, and I can SEE out of it. The seating position is more upright than my Talon was, but still sporty. The one thing I had to get used to is how HIGH this thing revs. The CV trans is also something I had to get used to. I kept wanting to shift it with the non-existent paddle shifters.... LOL

My wife and I love to ride, and love having a Side by Side (SxS). I plan on keeping this RMax.

This is my RMax with my brothers Pioneer. Mine is blue, his is red.

This was my beloved Talon. That was a fun buggy!

 

[NoTrespassing]

I sold my old 4x6 and a club car carry-all to a buddy for $1000. He put a few hundred dollars into them and some of his time and flipped them for a tidy profit. I think he got over $4k for the 4x6 and probably $2k for the carry-all.

 

[Torvy]

We are considering a CFmoto UTV... Folks around here are buying them often, and I won't pay $20k+ for a Polaris

We looked at those. Not too bad. Wife really wanted an EV one for our uses, so we went Hisun instead.