Home Forums Gear Horses and ATV's Can Am or Polaris for my son

I like the Yamaha grizzly and it would be my first choice but they have priced themselves out of the market. A new 700 with no eps is 8k with around 45hp while the Polaris and can am are just above and below 6k with the same 45hp. I have no doubt that the grizzly will out last both but that 2k difference would be the down payment on my sled this winter. Also only local dealer is can am skidoo everyone else is an hour away.

I'd find a new dealer. You can get them a lot cheaper than that.

Polaris all the way...I have owned them all. I have a 2014 400 Ranger with 80 Hrs never had a screw turned..those are a rough 80 Hrs in the hills of southeast KY..Pulling my 260 lbs and my sons 240 lbs. I Have never had a major problem with one. My son picked up a 2014 500 up a couple of weeks ago that had been sunk. We tore it down and rebuilt the top end and had it running in 4 Hrs..New piston and rings and gaskets. Parts were cheap and in stock. Motor was super easy to work on. Thing runs like new.

Having to rebuild a 2014 Polaris sounds about right.

What do you plan to do with it after it's broke in?

Our '11 450 Grizz has only 1200 hours so far and it runs like new…..probably last forever if I'd quit driving it when it's -25º; I imagine that gets a bit hard on it.

all of us that ride together started out with a mixture of bikes.suzuki,yamaha,honda,kawasaki,and polaris. now we are all riding polaris atv's except for one honda and he's looking at a rzr now.we are pretty tough on them all. one of the guys wrecked his polaris rzr and just put it on a brand new frame. we had more problems with honda atv's than all the others combined.if you run the crap out of any of them you are going to have to fix stuff.polaris has by far the best ride because they are heavier then most.

They do have the best ride there's no question about that.

I've always balanced the great ride against a great walk and don't have trouble saying "no".

only time my polaris made me walk out was when a guy hunting on the property next to my stole my key out of the switch. he can't stand my killing more nice bucks then him.

most polaris haters are stuck in the past .10-12 years ago they had lots of problems with them. polaris is so far ahead on technology when it come to atv's. the rest of the companies are just following there lead.

Not flaming, but your experience seems to be other than the norm. Quite a few newer (less than 3 years old) Rangers in our camp, and their reliability record, or lack thereof, seems no different to the older ones. From cooling fan modules, to throttle position sensors, to plastic front diff pinion housings, to blown struts etc etc.

When Polaris ATVs begin to show up in Alaska's villages (where ATVs are the local 'cars'), and become something more than lawn ornaments, then I'll believe that Polaris has turned the corner on the issues that have plagued their past. No one can appreciate a good ride more than those who bang and bump over tussocked tundra. If 'ride' was the end-all, Polaris would certainly have 'it'.

Lot's of rec-vehicles have as many miles (or more) riding on trailers as they do under their own power, which tends to disguise something.

So what are you guys riding in your villages? Yamaha and Honda?

Honda still reigns in many places, though others are making inroads (since Honda has been chasing the reliability they were once known for in their quads; they still make a good rig and seem to be getting 'it' back.) Can-Ams get tried (probably because Ski-Doo snow-gos are becoming more popular), but they never seem to last long enough to catch on. Yamaha is quite common in some places and they are building a decent following based on their best attribute: reliability.

I agree with Klik, the Yamaha's are right up there with the Honda's when it comes to reliability. I would have no problem owning either one, actually I own both, a Foreman and a Rhino.

I've never been left stranded in the backcountry by either one.

Have an old Rino and they are stout. Noisy too.

I like the idea of the RZR 570, smaller motor, plenty of power (for what I want), a little narrower on the trails. Hard to get past the reliability talk though. the idea would be to get pretty far from the truck.

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Probably rebuild it.

Me either.

The problem with them is they will get you far from the truck. They just won't get you back to it.

Polaris are very popular around my area in N. La.