Sport Honda???????

I have heard that Honda is going to release a sport SxS.

I will get it if it is even a halfway sport model. Can't beat a Honda for reliability.

hobbz wrote:

Can't beat a Honda for reliability.

You got that right.

I heard the world was going to end in 5 days.. Just saying

8ball_99 wrote:

I heard the world was going to end in 5 days.. Just saying

Excellent come back, 8ball.....

I wish they would enter the market. Honda's reliability is second to none, but they will need a bigger motor than they have out at the moment. It would surprise me if they do, since they haven't really shown any interest since the Pilot days.

8ball_99 wrote:

I heard the world was going to end in 5 days.. Just saying

I would bet on the Honda before the end of the world. Lets just say this might be on the up and up......

Ride Red !!!

Honda lacks one big component. Torque.....they make a reliable v-twin (not even a hp monster) just around the 1000 cc range with honda reliability, good suspension, halfway decent cockpit,myself and I know thousands of others are sold!

I don't know, You guys say that. I've known a few with the newer atvs and they had plenty of problems.. Sensors going out here and there. 4wd system not working all that great. I also don't see them being high on the HP or torq numbers with their SxS. Honda is still praised so high because of the 300 fourtrax that probably all of us had at one time or another.. You damn near couldnt' kill them. I haven't seen that in their newer machines.. Don't get my wrong I'm sure a honda would be a much more reliable machine then a PoPo. I just don't know if theirs would really be better.. Everyone on here still says a Rhino is built so much better then a RZR.. It also go almost anywhere a RZR will.. Yet almost no one drives Rhino's anymore.. To me a honda would probably be the same way.. They will need more then a reliable machine that somewhat compares..

8ball_99 wrote:

........... They will need more then a reliable machine that somewhat compares..

Very good point Will. I have to agree with you.

Well, at least you probably won't have to worry about smoking another belt.

My company has a lot of the ranchers and they have a lot of problems with them out here in the gas fields.

hillbillyrzrs wrote:

My company has a lot of the ranchers and they have a lot of problems with them out here in the gas fields.

Thats what I've seen also.. Almost everyone around me uses ATVs on their land or for hunting. Haven't heard anything good about a Honda quad in a long time.. All the electronics on them cause nothing but problems.. My neighbor had one a couple years ago. I helped him work on it several times before that sucker went up on craigslist and he bought a RZR like mine. His quad had very low hours on it when he sold it..

I had a friend who sold his Rzr thinking this was the case, he runs GNCC events and complains constantly about Rzr's being junk and breaking all the time. There are none of them that will hold up to the kind of abuse in stock form. I think Honda is a ways off from actually bringing out a sport model. Maybe when Yamaha comes out of the lab, Honda will also. According to the marketing guys from Can-am said that the pure sport market is only 2% of overall sales, maybe that is why honda and yamaha have not bothered??

R955 wrote:

According to the marketing guys from Can-am said that the pure sport market is only 2% of overall sales, maybe that is why honda and yamaha have not bothered??

That is wrong. In 2008 SidexSide sales were 80% utility and 20% recreational. It is way more than that today, with sport models at least 1/2 of the recreational sales. I would say that recreational sport models make up at least 20% of all SidexSide sales today.

I felt that number was extremely low, maybe from the Can Am line, in today's demographics I bet that number is close to 40%. It was on a post in the rzr forums, about the Maverick slightly before it came out, he could not believe how crazy people were acting about all the new release pure sport models.

R955 wrote:

I felt that number was extremely low, maybe from the Can Am line, in today's demographics I bet that number is close to 40%. It was on a post in the rzr forums, about the Maverick slightly before it came out, he could not believe how crazy people were acting about all the new release pure sport models.

I thought that number was low too. I have watch the change in this club over the last few years. We are probably 90% recreational sport models now compared to 90% utility in 2008.

Can ams R&D on demographics is a joke.