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Originally Posted by Hunterworks
I'm just curious, when a magazine does a article on a product or series of products do you guys pay much attention to them?
Where or who do you get your information for purchases?
I get the feeling that most magazines won't say anything bad about a product they review due to risking losing advertising dollars.
Do you feel you get a honest opinion from the two main UTV magazines?
Todd
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While I haven't read the UTV magazine stuff much I have 2 thought based on years & years of motocross and other hobbies with reviews.
1) The magazines are definately very cautious about their comments. I don't think that they make it very clear what they think. Instead, they seem to search out and highlight the postives and sugarcoat the negatives. In the end, if you read between the lines, you'll find out what you want to know perhaps. Just realize that they will not state that a product has real problems. Still a good source of info and my preferred source if the magazine is good. I've been looking to see if there's a good utv magazine.
2) The forums are a good source of info too, but in a different way... guys will post on and on about what they hate. You're searches will locate the problems determined with a product. However, the other side of things is that many many folks will post that they love whatever they have. It's very difficult for many people to be crtical of something that they just decided to spend a lot of money on. Obviously, if they decided to buy it, they think it's the best much of the time. Most importantly, the folks that post (including me) don't have experience with multiple items to make a comparison. So while the forums are good, I actually think that they are more biased than the magazines unless it's a test posted by someone like Hunterworks.
The biggest issue with all of this in the UTV market is that there are a lot of differences between various UTVs, products and their best applications. For instance, a shoot out on MX bikes are all purpose built with the same objectives. Therefore, the mags can rate performance of suspension, motors, low end, top end etc on a scale of 1 to 10 and it was more impartial which would be less likely to pi$$ off the manufactures.