I grew up on Honda ATVs, 3 and 4 wheeled. We abused them everyday on the ranch pulling 10-20 fiberglass bottomed feed bunks, hauling feed, herding cattle, you name it. The only problems we had were with the tires, and that's just because we kept running over thorn trees. I've swum them through 4-5ft deep creeks, dumped them out of truck beds, rolled them down creek banks, flipped them end over end, just straighten the handle bars back out and keep right on going! Polaris and Arctic Cat are the only others that I've been around. They can't hold up to the abuse like the Hondas. Grandpa had a Polaris and got so tired of trying to keep it running that he traded it in on a Honda. My boss runs Hondas and an Arctic Cat. He can't keep the Arctic Cat out of the shop and it only gets used a few times a year for hunting. If you plan on using and abusing it, get a Honda, it you want it to look pretty in the garage, get one of the other brands.