The icon turns 20 and Yamaha celebrates in style. It seems like only yesterday to your ATVC editors, but somehow it’s been two full decades since Yamaha unleashed the YFZ450R upon a world that was ready to return to stock ATV performance after being teased by the potential in models like the Raptor 660R and […] More »

Pro XD combines the RANGER XP Kinetic EV’s DNA with their commercial line. Give the workday 100 percent with zero emissions, zero fuel costs and zero compromises. The all-new, all-electric Pro XD Full-Size Kinetic utility vehicle (UTV) from Polaris Commercial, a division of Polaris, is engineered from the inside out to withstand tough jobsite duty […] More »

We’re hoping this one gets the ball rolling. Again. We’ll come right out wit hit – manual clutch, full sport ATVs are among your ATV Connection’s favorite machines ever made. You can imagine our disappointment, then, when the 450cc premiere race class nearly evaporated entirely, leaving only Yamaha to hold down the fort (after a […] More »

All-new RIDGE UTV arrives. A little over a month ago, Kawasaki began teasing us with mysterious pics and a name-badge – RIDGE. We’ve been straining our noodles around here trying to guess what this new SxS was going to turn out to be – a fully electric UTV to compete with the Polaris Kinetic? A […] More »

Imagine seeing these on the trail! What we consider the “norm” for off-road machinery is actually a whole process of trial and error. It all starts with wild ideas, miniatures, mock-ups, prototypes, testing and, if all goes well, a production model. And, as crazy as it sounds, every one of us has a vote in […] More »

2023 Polaris General XP 1000 Ultimate review. The Polaris General is one of the most popular, widely recognized SxS lines in the world and with good reason – they are machines that can do pretty much anything you can ask of them and do it well. And, as impossible as it seems when it comes […] More »

Didn’t need valves but had some anyway. Valves are a fact of like in the four-stroke engine. Intake valves open which allow fuel to enter the combustion chamber, a spark plugs ignites the fuel/ air mix, sending the piston sailing down the cylinder and then exhaust valves open to allow the spent gaseous byproducts of […] More »