I'm fed up with my 2002 Polaris Sportsman 700 and it's time to get rid of it and get something else. Seriously looking at either the new Suzuki King Quad and the Kawi Brute Force. My type of riding is mostly tight, twisty, "in-the-woods" kind of trails with a lot of whoops and hill climbs. On occasion I will find a big nasty mud hole but not that often. I want a quad that I can plow the driveway with and do other light "utility" work with as well. I still own a 2000 King Quad 300. Other then the fact it rides like a tank and is slow the quality is leaps and bounds over the Polaris. The Sportsman has been the most unreliable POS ever. It has never run that well from the beginning and is constantly in need of service. It could be that I bought it when it was a brand new model and the bugs hadn't been worked out but I don't know. I don't want to make that mistake again, that I know! Anyway- convince me which I should get? The Kawi Brute Force....or the Suzuki King Quad 700? Also, would it be best to wait a year or two to let the bugs get worked out or is that not as big an issue with the Kawi's/Suzuki's as it has been with my POS Polaris?

Thanks!
Justin
jack3689

 

go to the kawi forum and look for brute force today. this will tell you one persons views on his brute force

 

i think the kq will indeed be the king

go to here and then go to king quad, they have a whole brochure on it.
to be honest im not hot on how either of them look, and thats mabey a little important to me, is that kawi engine another pumped 650-700? all the stuff i have on my vinson i cant justify selling it, because neither seems to be leaps and bounds away.

I personaly would not get a first model year, just like the z and vinson they had quireks that needed to be worked out.

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