Popular Mechanics South Africa

The Polaris Scrambler is absolutely useless – and completely exhilarating

are an endangered species. Back in the glory days of 2008, just about every ATV company built a sport machine. But today’s ATV market is afflicted with an acute case of pragmatism, rife with blocky four-wheel drives fitted with cargo racks and hitches. The implication seems to be that fun, for its own sake, is irresponsible – you use your utility quad to clear bush off the remote part of the farm; any entertainment is purely incidental. That’s why the

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