Here is my SXS logic. 1, you will never get the power to weight ratio of a turbo SxS without spending butt loads of money on a prerunner and having the potential to do a wheelie out in the dunes is awesome to me. 2, the bang for your buck for desert racing and a rock crawling 4x4 vehicle is insane. There is a race ready rzr for 11k on fb marketplace right now. I have wanted to race my whole life, but could literally never afford it, a SxS puts me close to being to actually race. 3, You can definitely make SxS's unique and really badass, most people are generic, but that doesn't mean all sxs have to be. Honestly, I can't count how many identical looking rangers and or tacomas have I seen. 4, You can make a SxS street legal and super unique all in one stroke by body swapping it with a dune buggy or a baja bug, which is my plan! I live somewhere that is really cool (Truckee, CA) that has endless amounts of desert and rock crawling near by and I want a rig that can do both, the only non SxS I can think of that can readily do both is a 90s Bronco, but those are now 10k for a barely rolling shitbox and honestly driving a SxS on the road is going to be more reliable than that (even though a built 90s Bronco is a dream for me).
I have a 2010 Nissan Xterra with mid travel and was going to go long travel, but compared to a rzr the math doesn't add up; front LT 3-5k, front shocks 1500-2k, axles 800-2k bumps 600, then there is the install which I would do but then you have to tire clearance and cut into fender wells and move a bunch of shit in the engine bay. Then the rear deavers 1200, shocks 1-2k, shackles 200, install do I somehow tuck the shocks under the cab or am I chopping my rig up? Plus wheels and tires 2-3k. That is at least $12,000 for a basic prerunner with no cage and no power upgrades, no cooling, no seats, no harness, no fenders, no radios. Plus the 6k I spent on the rig itself. For $18,000 I could get such a badass SxS with stupid amounts of power, 22" of travel front and rear with 4x4, a cage, seats harness, etc, race ready. Then I can just throw a Kartek baja bug body on it and register it as a bug (many have done something similar to this). People even have throw heater & ac in there rigs. Check out a few cool builds: https://utvsportsmag.com/magazine-feature/baja-bug-polaris-rzr/
https://dirtwheelsmag.com/polaris-rzr-dune-buggy/
https://www.facebook.com/100087771408816/videos/3681490608822689/
I have a 2010 Nissan Xterra with mid travel and was going to go long travel, but compared to a rzr the math doesn't add up; front LT 3-5k, front shocks 1500-2k, axles 800-2k bumps 600, then there is the install which I would do but then you have to tire clearance and cut into fender wells and move a bunch of shit in the engine bay. Then the rear deavers 1200, shocks 1-2k, shackles 200, install do I somehow tuck the shocks under the cab or am I chopping my rig up? Plus wheels and tires 2-3k. That is at least $12,000 for a basic prerunner with no cage and no power upgrades, no cooling, no seats, no harness, no fenders, no radios. Plus the 6k I spent on the rig itself. For $18,000 I could get such a badass SxS with stupid amounts of power, 22" of travel front and rear with 4x4, a cage, seats harness, etc, race ready. Then I can just throw a Kartek baja bug body on it and register it as a bug (many have done something similar to this). People even have throw heater & ac in there rigs. Check out a few cool builds: https://utvsportsmag.com/magazine-feature/baja-bug-polaris-rzr/
https://dirtwheelsmag.com/polaris-rzr-dune-buggy/
https://www.facebook.com/100087771408816/videos/3681490608822689/
