The great Lotus designer Colin Chapman once remarked, "Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere. Simplify, then add lightness."
I know many enthusiasts have heard the last part of the quote many times before, but I wanted to detail the whole quote because I think it's the same thinking that brought the Can-Am Maverick R to life. And, indeed, all go-fast UTVs.
See, the top dawgs of the desert racing scene have always been the trophy trucks. They're these behemoths of machines, with 1,000 horsepower V8s weighing in at over 3 tons and have more suspension travel than there are grains of sand on Earth. Or at least they were top dawgs, as in recent years, both Polaris and Can-Am have built faster, lighter, and more nimble machines built to dominate where trophy trucks once reigned supreme. The companies understood power made them faster on straights, and cutting weight made them faster everywhere else.
