Silent but ready. The entire mechanical world has been enamored with the concept of electric-power for quite some time and while electric-only ATVs and SxSs have been around, it seems to always come down to a few key concerns keeping them in the background: Long charge times, low operating times and expensive, heavy batteries. Honda […] More »

Already possible today. Club Car teamed up with Ray Evernham, a three-time NASCAR champion pit crew chief and 2018 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee, to design an Onward concept vehicle, the next generation in the small personal vehicle (SPV) category. Evernham, former crew chief for NASCAR icon Jeff Gordon, put his passion for automotive design […] More »

Yamaha R1 Powered Quad. Yamaha has announced its first ever R1 Dirt Track car (R1DT) exhibition race, which took on place Nov. 11, at the Perris Auto Speedway in Perris, California. Yamaha’s R1DT concept dirt track racecar is still in prototype development, but has captured attention for its unique design and production possibilities. The tube […] More »

Meet DAGOR. LINE-X has teamed up with Polaris to build one of the most unique powersports vehicles ever to appear at SEMA 2017. The Polaris DAGOR ultra-light tactical off-road vehicle — usually only available to the United Stated Department of Defense and allied militaries across the globe — is now debuting for the general public […] More »

Meet the future. Way back in 2012 your ATV Connection editors were already telling you about the potential of the tweel. If you don’t recall, it is basically an airless tire and wheel combination Polaris was touting as being exceptional for off-road applications. Here it is 5 years later and while the tweel has yet […] More »

Have you ever seen a spider running across the ground and thought, now that’s a great idea for an ATV platform? No? Us either but that’s exactly what must have happened to Frenchmen Pascal Rambaud, Jerome Arsac and Thierry James. They formed Swincar and from where we’re sitting, appropriately named E-Spider. Tilting, independent suspension arms […] More »

Years ago things were simple — bikes leaned while ATVs slid when it came to cornering. Then the line began to blur several years back when road-going three-wheelers began appearing with geometry and configurations that allowed them to lean over like a bike without sacrificing the stability of self-balance. Yamaha has had a concept called the Tesseract […] More »