Looking for feedback from owners on the Honda Pioneer 500 UTV.
ONLY interested in the 500 due to its narrow width. I would like to get a UTV, but we have so many ATV width trails in the woods that standard and supersize width UTVs are a non-starter. I’m not spending the next 5 years re-cutting trails so I can drive a UTV down them.
This is strictly a work machine for the hunting farm. I won’t be doing recreational riding, this is just rapid transit for buzzing around the farm getting stuff done. I have a full-size tractor and loader so the UTV won’t be pulling implements.
How do you like the Honda 500 machine? Any issues or complaints? Any bad weak or failure points?
My understanding is they have a user selectable “auto” tranny mode or a manual mode where you paddle shift. Is this the case and was this always on them or did this start in a certain year?
Please, no “Get a Brand X instead” or “you’ll regret not upsizing to the 380 HP turbo diesel UTV for more power” replies. Not interested in any other brands or models unless there’s some other maker that I’m missing that’s got a <50 inch wide model.
Many thanks.