NOTICE Where are the serious off-road Ford Ranger builds!!?? Show me....

[Snoranger]

UTVs/side-by-sides... I think these things are stupid... but many do not and choose this route instead of a much more capable Jeep/Toyota/Ranger/etc

You e never owned a SxS I see. Your opinion of them being stupid is you’re opinion, I won’t try to tell you that you’re wrong… but if you think a Jeep, Toyota, or Ranger is more capable, you’re completely out of your mind.
My Yamaha RMAX2 1000 will out wheel my Ranger Tremor all day long and twice on Sunday for half the price. The RMAX cost $25K and the Tremor cost $50K. It hasn’t stopped me from trying.
Ive dumped $6-7k into the suspension in the Tremor and it’s noticeably better, but it’s still no where near the suspension travel of my sport-utility model SxS (not even full sport model, I still have a dump bed). Do you know what it would take to get 14.2” of front travel and 16.9” of rear travel out of a ‘19+ Ranger? How about 14” of ground clearance at the lowest point?

 

[dvdswan]

I prefer the forest service road and actual forest service road where 4WD is required. Great scenery that way.

For 25K you could build a great little wheeling rig with AC from an older truck/SUV and have money left over.

 

[Shran]

You e never owned a SxS I see. Your opinion of them being stupid is you’re opinion, I won’t try to tell you that you’re wrong… but if you think a Jeep, Toyota, or Ranger is more capable, you’re completely out of your mind.
My Yamaha RMAX2 1000 will out wheel my Ranger Tremor all day long and twice on Sunday for half the price. The RMAX cost $25K and the Tremor cost $50K. It hasn’t stopped me from trying.
Ive dumped $6-7k into the suspension in the Tremor and it’s noticeably better, but it’s still no where near the suspension travel of my sport-utility model SxS (not even full sport model, I still have a dump bed). Do you know what it would take to get 14.2” of front travel and 16.9” of rear travel out of a ‘19+ Ranger? How about 14” of ground clearance at the lowest point?

$35-40k will buy me a really nice Jeep Rubicon that has AC, low range, can be legally driven on the street in all 50 states and is capable enough to do 90% of what most SxS’s can do. It lacks the go fast type capability and that’s about all.

My personal feelings aside, we run into them on hard trails all the time out here and they can’t keep up with well built traditional 4x4s. Everything is smaller and easier to break. Some don’t even have low range. Apples and oranges.

 

[Uncle Gump]

I'd like to have a SXS... but in utility form. Something for my wife to bomb around in. Maybe teach the grandkids to drive in. Probably use it for hunting a little. This old guy however will be putt putting around in the G-Unit.

 

[Uncle Gump]

@Shran forgot to mention... many of the SXS crowd (like the quad people of years gone by) are A-holes with money or can sign their name with little clue and a total lack of respect for most things.

 

[Uncle Gump]

But that might just be my opinion.

 

[Snoranger]

@Shran forgot to mention... many of the SXS crowd (like the quad people of years gone by) are A-holes with money or can sign their name with little clue and a total lack of respect for most things.

Hey, I’m not an A-… nevermind. Well, at least I don’t have a total lack of respect for most things.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Hey, I’m not an A-… nevermind. Well, at least I don’t have a total lack of respect for most things.

Well......................

 

[Jim Oaks]

We encountered quite a few people in Colorado that either didn't know trail etiquette, didn't care or both. SXS drivers were the worst. Fortunately for them we're not assholes blasting up the trail at 50 MPH.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

$35-40k will buy me a really nice Jeep Rubicon that has AC, low range, can be legally driven on the street in all 50 states and is capable enough to do 90% of what most SxS’s can do. It lacks the go fast type capability and that’s about all.

My personal feelings aside, we run into them on hard trails all the time out here and they can’t keep up with well built traditional 4x4s. Everything is smaller and easier to break. Some don’t even have low range. Apples and oranges.

I always thought it would fun to get a sxs do i could cruise around the black hills at 30-40 mph.

 

[Snoranger]

I would really like to have portals and independent suspension at all 4 corners of a RBV. Just look at the ground clearance compared to TRS2 and I’m only on 4” portals and 31’s.

 

[Jim Oaks]

I would really like to have portals and independent suspension at all 4 corners of a RBV. Just look at the ground clearance compared to TRS2 and I’m only on 4” portals and 31’s.

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Funny you say that...

While we were in Colorado, I was looking under the front of TRS-3 and thinking to myself how much more clearance it has over TRS-2.

 

[Shran]

@Shran forgot to mention... many of the SXS crowd (like the quad people of years gone by) are A-holes with money or can sign their name with little clue and a total lack of respect for most things.

I had a situation a few years ago where a group of them tried taking down a fence on our other property to get to a trail on Forest Service land (where there has never been a trail) and my cousin's wife told them to leave. They told her they were going to come back at night and dispose of her. 75% of them that we run into are drinking while they drive, drinking when they stop on the side of the road and leaving beer cans all over, blatantly off trail, making their own trails, or various other types of land abuse...use your imagination. There are bad eggs in every group but it sure seems like the sxs crowd has a lot more.

I'm just going to leave this here. Happened at our club event over labor day.

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[Uncle Gump]

Sooooo....

It's not just me then.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Ok @Snoranger how do we build a stout IFS that can handle a 35-inch tire and swap it under a Ranger to get that kind of clearance? Do we need to swap to a 1998 style frame, or can it be done on a TTB frame?