Yamaha AdventuRMAX Concept Side-by-Side
Something that bodes well for dealerships and powersports manufacturers that carry UTVs and products is the fact that many consumers of these vehicles opt to upgrade and customize the vehicles later down the road. There’s so many different aftermarket options available for the big name OEM side-by-sides that make for tons of unique builds.
In order to market their vehicles as something that can be drastically customized and altered to fit the needs and personality of the driver, OEMs will often build concept vehicles that show this first hand. We see them all the time at trade shows and other powersports events – this year we found a pretty sweet Yamaha concept side-by-side at the AIMEXpo.
“The RMAX 1000 is one of our recreational side-by-sides that we’ve had for a few years now,” said Scott Newby of Yamaha. “It has a 1,000cc parallel-twin engine in it and has our D-Mode, so all sorts of technology all the way around. It’s a great platform that our customers can use to do some off-roading and adventuring.”
To meet the varying demands of drivers and terrain, Yamaha’s D-Mode optimizes the RMAX 1000’s full engine power, adjusting throttle response and engine braking to provide three distinct power-delivery options: Crawl, Trail and Sport
That makes it perfect for racing events like King of the Hammers, which Yamaha’s off-road division campaigns it at.
“We have a mixture of Yamaha accessories like the over fender and skid plate and so forth, but we also wanted to show people that it’s a very capable platform and you can do more with it than in stock form. We have integrated rollover protection structures (ROPS) in the back, and even on the four-seater. We took out the back seats and actually have storage underneath where the foot compartment was before so now there’s even more space.”
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