I had an enlightening discussion with a friend of mine here at work. He is a big time Polaris fan and he was on vacation last week and stopped by my office to find out what SXS I had bought. I told him I still didn't have one yet but that I was leaning towards the Pioneer 1000. He just shook his head and told me that I was being stupid. (He doesn't have a great bedside manner
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He asked, how much horsepower and how fast will it go? I told him 66 was the top speed and 70 some odd HP. He said that was stupid, the Polaris had way more HP and a much higher top speed. I told him I didn't even want to go 66 MPH much less whatever number it was that he mentioned. He said that there was no way he would buy a new design like the Honda because there would be too many problems with it and besides Honda was too far behind the game. He said that he never had any problems out of his Polaris and couldn't understand why I was so insistent on Honda.
I asked him what he would suggest and he said a Polaris Ranger. I told him that I didn't like the lack of compression braking on the Rangers and some other design things I didn't like about them. I told him there were a couple of design things about the Honda that I didn't like and they were a first year unit but there didn't seem to be that many issues floating around online that weren't being covered by the warranty. I also told him that I was probably going to get the extended warranty just in case.
Then he proceeded to tell me that I absolutely should get the extended warranty and told me about how he paid $1,200 for the extended warranty on his Polaris and how it paid for itself when the front differential leaked all the fluid out of it in less than 4 months and had to be replaced and how Polaris didn't want to replace it under warranty because they said he should have been checking it and how it was in the shop for 6 weeks while they were fixing it and how they finally covered it. The he said it also covered two or three fuel pumps and a couple of other items that I couldn't keep up with that he had replaced.
Remember, he said that he never had any problems out of it....
I actually bought my Rincon 2 years or so before he bought his Polaris. All I ever had done to it was flush the rear brake lines because I had condensation. Never did anything else to it.
Apparently his and my ideas of "never had any problems" are completely different.
That may possibly be the same feelings of other people.
I've been there where HP was the drug of choice. It was fun to sling mud but I'm pretty sure the Pioneer can sling too. The Honda is priced right and it's dependable. I'm more into dependable now! 
