You'll find a lot of folks with baseless brand loyalty, telling you their brand is 'the way to go'. The rincon has no locker I believe, and all the hondas are slow. Hondas do have the bulletproof reliability going for them, and comfort. As said above, determine your type of riding and it will lead you toward your choice. The yamaha and honda and polaris are more utility, compared to the prairie being more of a sport utility. If you still like to ride fast and use it as a sport quad , get a prairie. If you like to putt around, are older, or want it for mostly utility work, get the honda or yam. The prairie 700 is the ultimate sport utility. The Honda or Yam is the ultimate utility. Good luck!

 

Been very happy with our Rubicon. There is not another transmission like it in any ATV. It is the one thing that would be very hard to part with, besides the 3200 trouble free miles. The trans is like having a fully automatic 5-speed manual trans. Rider mud protection is great. Ample power. I don't think there is an ultimate ATV. This one has gone everywhere in all conditions from deep snow to climbing boulder strewn river beds from 4000 ft to over 12000 ft with no problems. It goes everywhere all the others do, to their surprise, not mine. We will keep this one until it is dead which so far all indications are we are going to have it for a long time.

We are 100% happy with it and would buy another one with no hesitation, as long as it was Red.

 

One more small note. Quite a few friends have bought new Polaris's in the last two years and for the most part they have been trouble free. I don't think it would be a mistake to buy a new one at all. I do believe Polaris has upped the quality and lessened the maintenance of their ATVs quite a bit. Personally I would take a SP 600 over the 700. I would still take another Honda over the rest.