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Longevity incarnate. When we think of early ATV brands, perhaps Honda is the first to spring to mind. Truth of the matter is Kitchener, Ontario’s ARGO has been around and producing all-terrain vehicles for over 50 years with no signs of slowing. Ontario Drive & Gear Limited (ODG) was founded in Kitchener, Ontario in 1962. […] More »

Just for duck hunters or the start of something huge? Many of the features we consider standard issue on ATVs today can actually be attributed to Kawasaki’s forward thinking back in the early 1980s in an era when wheelers came a wheel short – from the factory. It was the 3-wheeler era and while things […] More »

CVT. It’s easy as 1-2-3. When it comes to ATV transmissions, the CVT reigns supreme. The Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) was known primarily for snowmobiling prior to making its way to the ATV scene. It’s an automatic system that uses two cone-shaped pulleys connected by a V-shaped belt. The taper of the pulleys can be […] More »

Better than new. The first company in the world to successfully electroplate onto aluminum substrates, WI’s own US Chrome has plated well over 1,000,000 cylinder bores since 1979. Perhaps even more amazing, the company has been in the plating industry since 1940! While their NiCom process is endorsed by performance racing icons such as Mercury […] More »

Not a motorcycle! Before becoming a scribe for Motorcyclist magazine, a Honda engineer by the name of Joe Minton became the first human to lay eyes upon the first Japanese ATV on American soil. Torrance California, specifically. The machine was the Honda US (ATC) 90 and the year was 1970. Bonus Fact: Early ATVs were […] More »

Coming in a little low. 2017’s First Quarter (Q1) sales states for the US of A are in the books- 40,757 all-terrain vehicles were sold to customers in the United States between January and March 2017. Keep in mind that this number does not include Side-by-Sides, amphibious ATVs (AATVs) or UTVs from companies like John […] More »

More RANGER for 2018. This past Monday, the first 2018 Polaris RANGER XP 1000 rolled off the assembly line in Huntsville, Alabama. Polaris says that the new flagship RANGER is more rugged, more refined, more RANGER. The vehicle features more than 100 owner-inspired innovations making it the hardest working, smoothest riding RANGER ever built.