I know this doesn’t matter for most folks who buy utility-specific side-by-sides, but one of the chief things that tends to tire you out on a long day of using them around your house, ranch, or in the field when scouting, hunting or whatever, is that damn thing’s noise. Most of the class is basically 20-year-old farm equipment that still has the possibility of tinutus after prolonged exposure, the same things I used to use when I was a fresh-faced 16-year-old working for my city’s local parks department.
It wasn’t the whacky Park and Recs crew, but we definitely had a Tammy 1 who worked in the office.
Yet, even with all the modernity that’s been pushed into the segment, i.e. Apple CarPlay, connected services, adaptive suspension, strut-assisted beds, and all manner of off-road and work modes for the engine, not much has been done in the service of saving your ears from long-term damage. You just get in and either slap on some ear protection as if you’re going to shoot some guns, or grin and bear it, only for your ears to be ringing all night long when the work is done. It sucks, and that’s coming from someone who has had bad tinnitus for far too long for being so relatively young. Fine, fine, fine, for someone that’s semi-old.
