Ok im getting sick of this, do magazines just make stuff up? I was reading some old magazines, and came across the yfz450 Vs. Predator shootout, and in there they say the predator beats the yfz by a few quad lengths, and now they say the yfz is the quickest accelerating thing out there. And the yfz vs. 450r thing is pissing me off too. In all the other mags, they say the power feels different but in most drags they are even, now they all say that the yamaha has gobs of power, and the honda is more mellow. And now the drag race times, in an old z400 vs. raptor shootout, the raptor ran the "200"yd race, ON DIRT, an it ran 9.81sec, now in the yfz and 450r race in "125"yd on PAVEMENT, and the yfz ran 9.40sec, and the 450r 9.56sec. I think something wrong there cause i dont think that 75 yds will only take .25 sec to run. And on to the star rating, on the transmission, they say its a toss up in atv action between the two, and now they only give honda 4 stars and yami 5. And in power now all of a sudden the honda power just isnt good enough so it deserves four in everything except low end, which i even heard some mags say thats where there isnt any power. I'm sorry this post is so long, i just had to vent, all these mags care about are money and whoever pays more, gets more praise. Ill just stick to looking at the pictures. Jeff

 

I don't blame them myself for caring about the the money. I think money is a good thing to have or should I say I would rather have some than not.

I like looking at the pictures.

 

I only buy atv mags for the pictures, the shoot-outs just dont make sense.

 

Shootout's are just flavor's of the week between the ATV Magazine Company's. One week a quad will be the worst performance quad, and the next they are the best.

 

The 4+4 shootouts drive me nuts I listend to them when I first bought a yamaha wolverine what a disipointment. this was years ago I always test drive machines before I buy them to see if thats what I want.

 

Yeah all of the magazines stretch the truth a bit .. if they just told the truth on the good products - VS - Bad Products they would lose buisness.