That’s one thing I forgot to mention. The gas mileage is incredible. When I first took my side x side out for a long ride, I topped off the tank. I drove for hours and still had plenty of gas when I got back to my truck. In fact, at one point during my ride, I thought the fuel gauge MUST be broken because it wasn’t even moving. Eventually it finally ticked down one bar. Hell, in my truck, I can almost watch the fuel gauge needle move simply driving half a block!! lmaoI don't own a sxs but lots of places have trails limited to 50" so someone with thier girlfriends tacoma would have turn around even before the paint got scratched.
Biggest reason they look appealing to me is the fuel consumption when your putting on lots of miles in the middle of nowhere hauling a bunch of fuel in just plain sucks.
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I can get down the bad roads 4 times as fast without any wear and tear on my truck. I can also get places I simply don't even want to try and take my truck.
Probably get you anywhere you want, but that is a long haul. I wouldn’t, cause I have towed a 20’ camper to/from Florida too many times.How useful, or capable, is something like a stock pioneer 500? Ive long debating getting one, but its a complication for a FL guy to drag a SxS every other year or so to AZ or CO. Not a lot of use otherwise
Can’t sleep in your sxs or a gay little Jeep but you can in a Toyota truck or 4runner. And you can still have ac and power windows and be able to lock all your shit inside.Here’s another question. Does a side-by-side offer any advantage over, say a lifted Toyota pick up or Jeep CJ 5 or 7, with Detroit lockers and a V-8? I’m asking because I’m contemplating just buying a older Jeep or Toyota, either with these mods or doing them myself, and having a designated hunting vehicle. With the prices of a newer side-by-side, I think it would be very easily to do this with one of these vehicles and probably even be money ahead.
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I'm sure they are handy and fun, but man, they have ruined the Uintas that I used to know. Every motorized trail is twice as wide as it used to be and every road is washboarded worse than I've ever seen. Not to mention all of the owners that feel empowered to drive through every fragile meadow and wetland area that they see. Saw one last week that drove through a boggy meadow to get to the river that was no more than a 200 yard walk off of the road. Another one driven by a teenager that was doing doughnuts in the shallow part of the creek. I wish the USFS had enough staff and funding to do some strict enforcement up there.
I agree with most of the comments here. You can drive a decent side by side COMFORTABLY 2-3 times as fast down rough roads as any pickup apart from a souped up baja rally truck. The roads we use to access are technically approved for all vehicles but a side by side turns a 2 hour drive at 5 mph in to a 30 minute ride averaging 20 mph.