Age old question...Yamaha or Polaris?
 

I've been looking at four wheelers for some time and have come down to two options.

1. Grizzly 660-700
2. Polaris 700-800

Neither one will be bought new if i get them, I just dont have that kind of money. i know what im doing buying used things and know if someone is lying to me so that is no problem. The only problem i have is which will be the more dependable machine? I dont plan on taking it swimming most would be some mud (not like 3 foot deep like some do, just small mud holes at the most). I just dont want to get something that I'll have to work on all the time, cause thats the problem with what i have now lol.

ive had 3 polaris's with great results. But i hear grizzlys are good quads too. get either i think. Just get the one thats been treated the best

either one i get will be treated nice, Dont really NEED it until deer season so i can wait till i find a good deal. Im kinda leanin towards the grizzly mostly because it just looks beastly but then again the polaris seems to be built like a tank.

Ive been out of the 4 wheeler scene for a while since ive had my XJ. I had a Honda foreman 400 i think it was. Man I cant beleive that they are coming with that much power now. What in the world. my 400 had plenty of pep. I have owned two croch rockets both 600cc and one of them would run 176mph on the dot. Why in the world do 4 wheelers need that much power. They must fly. Crazy!

ooooohh yeah. my buddy used to have a polaris 800 v twin and it would literally pop a wheelie if you slammed it

The Answer is Suzuki.

I've owned a few of their bikes and have never had a problem, and I put a lot of stress on my bikes.

I've had nothing but Polaris's. The friends my boys and I go riding with also have Polaris's. They have treated us well and very dependable. Even my oldest son's 2001 500. He uses it like a farm tractor. The boys are always skidding logs out of the woods, moving heavy trailers of dirt or stone, etc.

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CAN-AM 4-wheelers.
seriously check them out. had a yamaha wolverine, traded for a sportsman500. traded that for a can-am renegade 800. very strong & can ride all day with no backakes!!

i would say grizzly from your picks, but honda is really the most reliable over all. they just never die. my friend (you gotta know he's 18) had a honda foreman 450 and beat the crap out of it like it was a sport quad ( cause he had to keep up with me) and the thing still live to this day, NO PROBLEMS

reason its between the grizzly and the polaris is that i've always loved the grizzlys, and my friend had a polaris and the thing literally wouldnt die. No joke it was rolled 3 times, centered into a tree twice, sunk in a lake (cleaned out after of course), and jumped more times than i can count. Even killed the whole electric start and it still cranked on 1-2 pulls on the pullstart.

haha thats just about what happened with my friends honda although it was even worse!!

wow thats a beast, only thing ive really heard bad about them is that some of the new honda's electric shift goes out after a little while

Buy the one that fits you best, they are all good anymore.

Did you even read this thread? Its for quads, not bikes. And Suzuki really isn't all that great. Yamaha and Honda both outrun them on the tracks all day long, and have been for years now.

I like both options you've suggested, however I've only had personal experience with the Polaris Sportsman 500. It was a really nice machine, and was very easy to ride. My best friends brother has MS bad enough to where he can't even walk anymore, and he was having a blast on it.

I've had some experience with Yamaha sport quads, Warriers, Blasters, Raptors, but since those really aren't utility quads its hard to compare. I will say that I liked Yamaha's sport quads more than the Polaris sport quads, same buddie who had the Sportsman 5 had some selectable AWD 400s that were pretty fun to play with.

i have had 2 yammies, 1 honda, and 1 suzuki. i prefer the Suzuki (King Quad 700) out of any of them. my old man has a Grizz 700 and they are pretty evenly matched, i just liked the power response of the KQ. i have riding buddies with Polarass's. they weigh a good 150 more pounds than any of the japanese brands of the same class. thats pretty much like having an extra rider with you, not fun. the new polarass's have decent powertrains, but the older ones (early 2000's) dont at all.