Unfortunately, if you go and read the General forums, that performance comes at price. It is really too bad that Honda and Polaris can't get together and come up with a Ponda or a Polarda that had the innovation and features of the General and the durability of a Pioneer 700.
Of course, from an engineering standpoint, for the price point they may be mutually exclusive.
Kind of like the engineering maxim:
Cheap - Fast - High Quality ->
You can have any two but not all three at the same time.
Maybe in the offroad world you can have ->
Performance -Reliability - Reasonable cost
You can have only two.
Honda picks Reliability and Reasonable cost while Polaris picks Performance and Reasonable cost and knows that if they release a "new shiny" next year with more performance and more "features" that a large segment of the buying public will go "Oh, SHINY!" and forget about all the problems they had with last years models and grab the "NEW SHINY with 10 more HP!"
While Honda caters to the "Well my last Honda from 10 years ago is still running fine so I am going to get another one", market segment. (My segment #2
)
Probably why Polaris has significantly higher sales figures. They have designed in market share obsolescence.
