A while back, my friend and former colleague Kyle Kinard wrote a story about how UTVs are today's sports cars. They're ready-to-rock from the factory, infinitely modifiable, are stupid easy to work on given the lack of body panels, and, dollar-per-horsepower, the most accessible performance vehicle currently being built. All that was missing, however, were the horsepower wars that dominated the sportscar segment in the original era of the '60s, as well as the import scene of the '90s and early aughts.
That's been changing, though, as the top brands have been trading shots across each other's bows for the last few years. Kawasaki was the latest, with its supercharged, 250-horsepower Teryx H2, with the former being Can-Am's turbocharged 240-horsepower Maverick R, which it itself was going after Polaris' RZR Pro R and its 230 horsepower.
