Reasons not to buy an RTV 1100C?

[Rock Crawler]

Geese of man... I didn't realize how many companies are trying to fight in the utility/work class UTV.

Kawasaki Mule Pro X4 with full cab and HVAC. Rear seats fold up and bed converts to long bed.

Kubota RTV X1140 with full hard cab ($10,000 option), heat, rear seats fold up and bed converts to long bed.

Kubota RTV X1100C with full cab and HVAC.

Intimidator Truck 250 with full cab, heat and 6 foot bed.

Textron (Arctic Cat) makes a couple options in 2 door and 4 door, cabs and heaters optional, but no power dump option. This is also who actually makes the Mahindra UTV, same thing.... Different stickers.

Yamaha Viking... If it's built like a Rhino... Like a tank.... It's good to go.

John Deere Gator does a nice modernized gas or diesel with full cab and HVAC.

John Deere and Kubota look like highest quality 2 door cab units with factory heat and AC. No one else has AC.

That bed on the Mule Pro X4 is bad to the Bone....

I'm getting so confused.... Paralysis is setting in.

 

[DK35vince]

Geese of man... I didn't realize how many companies are trying to fight in the utility/work class UTV.
John Deere and Kubota look like highest quality 2 door cab units with factory heat and AC. No one else has AC.

The Polaris Ranger XP 1000 NorthStar Edition has AC.
Features: 219 Polaris RANGER XP 1 EPS NorthStar Edition | Polaris RANGER

 

[Rock Crawler]

The Polaris Ranger XP 1000 NorthStar Edition has AC.
Features: 219 Polaris RANGER XP 1 EPS NorthStar Edition | Polaris RANGER

Yes, but cost puts it out of the running, and the belt drive that is not a constant tension takes the Polaris units out of my interest.

I've got 12 years of pushing broken trucks into my shop, hauling wood on hills at slow speeds, dragging trees up and down hills, pulling trailers out there... All on the original belt with the Yamaha set up where the belt is always fully engaged and an oil bathed centrifugal clutch handles your start/stop. I at least want this same style of CVT, if not the Kubota HST.

I'm looking into the Intimidator and the Arctic Cat transmission to see if they are built like the Polaris or what they are doing.

It's funny that every alternative path I try to go down pushes me back towards the Kubota brand. The best cab quality, HVAC, engine, transmission, dump, price, insurance always ends up back at the Kubota. They seem to all get right there at the $22,000 area once you have a cab, heat, plow and all added to them. And if your going within $1,000 of a Kubota... Smart money goes and buys the Kubota. If I could put together a similar build for $5,000 less from say Textron (Arctic Cat)/Intimidator Truck.... I'd really have to think on it.

This is who Arctic Cat has become since 2017....
Side-By-Side Models | Textron Off Road

That Intimidator Truck with 6 foot dump bed and heated cab is extremely interesting....
Side by Side Utility Vehicles | Intimidator Inc.

But that dang Kubota package is tough!

I'm going to look into the Mule more today. And the Deere diesel... I'm still trying to find something that can under cut the Kubota price with enough margin to make it worth considering, but I'm learning that that really may not exist.

Kawasaki MULE PRO-FXT | Side x Side | Strong & Versatile

 

[Rock Crawler]

$28,000 pre tax for that belt slipping Polaris Glacier..... Wow.

And it's like everyone else.... Not near the commercial/industrial grade as the Kubota.

There is a dang Kubota RTV right now in Equipment Trader for I think $9,000 with 9,800 hours and 49,000 miles on it.

There is nothing out there that I think we will ever see showing that kind of longevity... Aside from a diesel/HST Kubota.

I don't know, maybe I'm fan-boying Kubota against my own will. But it sure feels like no matter what I try to do, all roads lead back to that orange machine.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

$28,000 pre tax for that belt slipping Polaris Glacier..... Wow.

And it's like everyone else.... Not near the commercial/industrial grade as the Kubota.

There is a dang Kubota RTV right now in Equipment Trader for I think $9,000 with 9,800 hours and 49,000 miles on it.

There is nothing out there that I think we will ever see showing that kind of longevity... Aside from a diesel/HST Kubota.

I don't know, maybe I'm fan-boying Kubota against my own will. But it sure feels like no matter what I try to do, all roads lead back to that orange machine.

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Over the past 15 years of buying tractors I've bought around 25 from Barlows and they have all been Kubotas. It isn't because I didn't look at other brands but what I get for what I pay always brought me back to that continuing monthly payment to Kubota Credit. I currently have a few Kubotas, one being my oldest owned the RTV1140 that has never been traded and I recently added a RTV500 gas HST to the herd/flock after searching for something to beat it for the price but never happened..

 

[Mowbizz]

I'm getting there.....View attachment 586453

I think that would be a good move!

 

[Mowbizz]

I bought a used 900 with 300hrs. It now has 530 hrs. It has battle scars. Mine is used to work. Very few hours have been put on it idling around doing nothing.

I consider it a miniature diesel 4wd dump bed ton truck
Battle scars come with the territory.



If purchasing an RTV for cosmetics and pleasure riding abovee comments do not apply. And your probably buying the wrong rig. Nothing uglier than an RTV.

You can work a machine intelligently and work
It hard...if you care not about resale value, tear it up and call it battle scars
As far as I am concerned, a well taken care of work horse includes both mechanical and visual, maintenance.
When it comes time to sell or trade, you have that in your pocket. To each his own.

 

[Paystar]

$28,000 pre tax for that belt slipping Polaris Glacier..... Wow.

And it's like everyone else.... Not near the commercial/industrial grade as the Kubota.

There is a dang Kubota RTV right now in Equipment Trader for I think $9,000 with 9,800 hours and 49,000 miles on it.

There is nothing out there that I think we will ever see showing that kind of longevity... Aside from a diesel/HST Kubota.

I don't know, maybe I'm fan-boying Kubota against my own will. But it sure feels like no matter what I try to do, all roads lead back to that orange machine.

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Wow.....that just erased any fear I had with using an RTV for long trail rides. I don't put that kind of miles on my ATV's!

 

[Rock Crawler]

Wow.....that just erased any fear I had with using an RTV for long trail rides. I don't put that kind of miles on my ATV's!

And tell me... After seeing this... Do you think your man enough to wear a Kubota out to the end of it's useful life? No way am I that hard core!

214 KUBOTA RTV-X11C, Xenia OH - 5323522 - Equipmenttrader.com

I mentioned this to my dealer and he said that they sell the X1100C machines to a prison, they run them 24/7 aside from fueling, service and obvious bathroom breaks. He says that they will put this kind of hours and miles on them every time.

 

[Rock Crawler]

Just in case that page gets pulled after the $9,000 sell of the 2014 machine with more miles than any car I've ever owned....