welcome bruiser, i don't own one but we have been thinking about a utility vehichle and i like the mini's...i can get a decent one here for 3500-5500 most have a/c heat and wipers and dump beds....we looked at kubota rtv but one like i'd want would run 13-15k...i hunt close to the mississippi line and have seen a bunch there with plates running the roads, not sure how they pull that off, but would be handy for tooling around our town...the man i have checked out the mini's is maynard equipment in moontown Alabama
the only reason i have not bought, wife uses our 4 wheeler for feeding livestock, the only way she'll consider a mini is if its an auto and Gordon maynard told me he gets 20:1 manuals over auto mini's if it had not been for that minor
deal we'd already own one
http://www.maynardequipment.net/