Tag: history

There’s a good chance if you’re an American ATV/ UTV enthusiast the name TOMCAR doesn’t hold a whole bunch of meaning for you. We have seen one pop up in classified ads every now and again but by and large, they are pretty few and far between in the US. Hopefully that won’t be the […] More »

Some people insist the days of internal combustion engines are coming to an end and that the future will find most every vehicle powered by battery-powered electric motors. Interestingly electric ATVs really aren’t that new of a concept. Full size electrics have been out for about a decade now and minis have been battery-powered for […] More »

If you’re fairly new on the scene, it’s easy to take for granted the fact that 2-up ATVs exist. In fact, we live in a time where a wide variety of side-by-sides and UTVs make off-roading with passengers a fact of life. This wasn’t always the case, however. In fact, before the popularity of side-by-sides […] More »

It’s an awesome urban legend that the Beastie Boys wrote “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)” on a cocktail napkin in five minutes in 1986. Well, something similar happened – although not quite so fast – when Rocky Mountain Kawasaki’s Joe Masek, Bill Gray and Jeff Mills attended an August 1980 dealer meeting […] More »

A lot of riders think the notion of a UTV or side-by-side with factory performance is a new concept; one derived from the natural process of realizing that early Mules and Rhinos could be designed less for work and more for recreational ripping. Not so! Honda realized years and years ago that ATVing had a […] More »

Usually when we think of Chinese ATV manufacturers, we imagine companies that appear (and disappear) overnight- creating poorly assembled, cheap quads with no dealer support, no parts catalog and an inventory sold in the parking lot at your local drug store. However, this isn’t always the case. Some Chinese manufacturers take quality and longevity every […] More »

Years ago, for those who weren’t around to remember it, the media did the ATV industry a terrible disservice. Through agenda-slanted reporting, they began to run coverage of the dangers of the then-popular 3-wheeled ATVs to the point of general public panic and lawyer involvement. Personal injury cases resulted in charges against the manufacturers themselves. […] More »