2025 Ultimate Sport ATV Shootout Raptor 700R vs Renegade 1000R vs Scrambler XP 1000 S. If you want a general use sport ATV for longer rides offering all-terrain performance you’ve got three main options. First there’s the proven, popular, and very customizable traditional two-wheel drive sport ATV, the Yamaha Raptor 700R. It’s at home in the dunes or carving up tight trails. It’s even fun to sneak on the MX track from time to time. The winningest machine in Pro 4X4 GNCC racing to date, the Can-Am Renegade 1000R set the standard for what a sport 4x4 ATV should be for years. The most powerful ATV in this comparison, it’s brutally fast, with agile handling that lets it dodge trees nearly as easily as machines half its weight. Finally, there’s the Polaris Scrambler XP 1000 S 4X4. Processing horsepower numbers nearly on par with the Can-Am, it trades in some tight terrain precision for the longest wheelbase, widest stance, most ground clearance and most importantly longest suspension travel of any single-seat production ATV in history. A pig on the scale, it tackles deep whoops, lands with a level of plushness and pitches it sideways in corners with a level of prowess that would make most traditional sport ATVs jealous.
Three ATVs, distinctly different in design and seemingly intended use, but somehow a group of machines that a buyer might be choosing between purchasing. So, we gathered all three machines together for some friendly head to head competitions to see how they stack up. For our shootout we headed to Hidden Springs Ranch in Springfield Ohio. It offers cross-country style ATV and dirt bike trails that haven’t been completely destroyed by SXSs, in addition to a large flat track built in a wide-open field offering some naturally occurring bumps, long straights and lots of turns of varying tightness.
In this video, we’ll ride and take lap times on the fast field track. Next, we’ll hit the woods for some head to head trail riding followed by a timed, abbreviated cross country race loop. Of-course, we’ll drag race them as well, because, who doesn’t want to see which one accelerated hardest in a straight line.
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