lmao! I was thinking the same thing

 

THat Rhino is a pretty bad A$$ machine, except that it's a Grizzly. Kawi needs to step up and build a competitor based on the BF750 or P-700 chassis. Alot of the work is already done. What a machine that would be....

 

I agree, that is why I am waiting on Kawasaki. I drove the Rhino and like it alot. It has some stalling issues when going up hill, and the floor boards need to be reinforced with skid plats or something to protect the driver. As it is, a stick can poke thru the floor boards and impale you, however, I heard yamaha fixed this for 2005. I am just a Kawasaki guy so I will wait.

 

I certainly don't mean to add insult to injury by bringing up the obvious fact that being a dumbass at a given point in time (which I have done myself on this machine) is the beginning and end of these injury stories. My point is that the cornering ability of these machines has absolutely nothing to do with any of these "accidents" (some even resulting in the loss of limb) that have happened. When you start describing incidents and then questioning the machine's role in same.....I think you do a disservice to those same injured people who would most certainly tell you the story straight and would want the word to get out in terms of the driver never putting himself into that situation in the first place.

 

Obviously, some people are pushing the machine past it's speed and handling threshold. I used to have an odyssey a few years back, and they had some hand straps so that if you rolled it, you wouldn't put out your hand instinctively and break it. It was an issue then, and it is still an issue now. It just seems to include legs now too. YOu couldn't put out your leg on the odyssey because of the frame rails. Why can't they put some sort of little door down by your legs, and some straps for your hands? How much does the steering wheel turn? Would the hand straps even be a possibility? Just a thought.

 

Kawasaki may just not be interested in building a play side by side right now , the mule is a great machine and for its purpose it will stomp a rhino , it is a work machine , have you noticed that on construction sites you never see any rhinos , they are almost always mules because the kawie will work the rhino to there grave and the kawie is definitely easier to get in and out off and have super nice confortable seat for working. These machine are designed to compete in any way .

 

I don't know how the legal climate has changed in all those years between then and now, nor what the reasoning is today....but you are right; people are getting hurt and unfortunately being the poster children for what can happen (and again, you really have to <u>thank these guys</u> for coming out onto the web and telling their stories...or there would be <u>no way in heck</u> that the word would ever be getting out). Black Rhino Performance is working on the best design I've seen to date for the money (not obtrusive pysically nor asthetically plus functional) and a few others are FINALLY seeing that there is a little money to be made here. I'm just of the opinion that many of these designs are going a bit overboard as to what need be accomplished for a knee-jerk instinctive reaction and that the entire 'look' of the rig sometimes suffers.

 

they did come out with a new mule for 05 to compete with the rhino but it is not as fast.
mule 610

 

The 610 is not designed to compete with the Rhino , the 610 has a 401cc engine , the have just upgraded the 550 mule with a little more power and a new look.

 

But the new 3010 trans is different. Nothing like taking utility vehicles and making them into people movers. Wait, didnt they already do that with crew cab 1/2 ton trucks???

Cool idea though, now kawi just needs a decent engine to push the mule line around.