Just looked at a Yamaha Kodiak 450, with a warn 2500 winch. Out the door it was $10k.
I’d have to flip a coin between the Honda and the Kodiak.
I thought that price was a little high, but with a winch and TTL, it might be too far off.
That sounds high I bought a New 2019 Honda Rancher 420 4-wheel drive for $5195
have they gone up that much in 4 years.
Lots have changed in the ATV world since 2019. MSRP on ALL ATV/UTV's are up 15-20% or more since then and Honda (to my knowledge) never charged a destination fee or a freight surcharge like they (and all manufacturers) do now. Also, you most likely bought a manual shift, non-power steering, solid axle Honda Rancher. That Kodiak is an automatic with IRS and for the price quoted I assume it's a power steering machine as well. I'm not saying one is better than the other but to get all of those options in a Honda you can add another $2000-2500 to the price you paid on top of the cost increase since 2019.
I had exclusively owned Honda ATV's until 2019 when I was going to replace my 2016 Rubicon manual shift (hated the manual shift after owner 3 hondamatic Rubicons) with a new 2019 Rubicon DCT. After driving it I didn't like the way the DCT shifted so I ended up buying a Can Am Outlander 570 DPS. With a few extras added I was OTD for $7500. This was in October of 19 and the 19's were discounted as the 20's were rolling in. I was back at the same dealer getting my UTV serviced this past September and looked at the same model Outlander I bought new in 2019 except this one was camo colored and had some upgrades (headed seat, light bar, sound bar and basket racks) and the price was $13k before any fees or tt&l. I absolutely couldn't believe it. I asked the salesman if someone was interested in that machine without all of the extras could they be taken off and they said no because the labor had already been spent installing the extras and that with the machine shortage they were adding accessories/extras to all machines in order to make up for the lack of volume they were receiving. He did say one could be ordered and purchased without all of the accessories but there was no estimated lead time as to when it would arrive. So seems to me that the ATV world isn't getting any better any time soon. At least that was the case 3-4 months ago.
