A pair of Club Car Urbans in their native environment. (Club Car/) Famed American golf-cart manufacturer Club Car has opened a new factory in Augusta, Georgia. Located in the unincorporated community of Appling, the facility is a response to increasing US demand for Club Car products. The factory, which represents an $8 million capital investment, will manufacture the brand’s Urban line of small electric commercial vehicles. It was officially kicked into gear on Thursday, April 18, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. Club Car’s Urban XR and Urban LSV may look ..read more

The Polaris Ranger 1000 and XP 1000 are now better than ever. (Polaris/) Ups The best utility rig in the business, now heavily updated. For the 2025 model year, the Ranger 1000 and Ranger XP 1000 receive a new transmission (it’s great), a new electric power steering system (it’s also great), and a host of worthwhile detail changes. Even the warranty and maintenance schedule have improved. Plus, if you pick your model right, it’s an absolute bargain. Downs Tailgate can feel a little flimsy. It doesn’t come with a free cake and a briefcase full of hundred-dollar bills. It will not do your laund ..read more

The Donut team had help from Matt’s Off-Road Recovery and its beast of a wagon. (Donut via YouTube/) The guys at Donut Media have their hands in just about every part of automotive culture, but off-roading hasn’t been one that they’ve spent much time exploring. Editor-in-chief and regular on-camera personality James Pumphrey recently took an opportunity to change that with a trip through the terrain at Sand Hollow, Utah, where he competed against other media personalities paired up with legit off-roaders on some of the most challenging obstacles in the West. Pumphrey teamed up with Matt from ..read more

It is a Zook, and its name is Clifford, and it is coming for you. (4WD 24/7/) It’s a trope with these things: People go off-road, old things are railed upon, somebody makes a “mhghmmm” worried noise. Someone else makes a “woo hoo!” noise. A rig gets stuck, often in the first five minutes of the video. Folks may or may not become worried about that stuck. Someone is called upon to spin up a fix that may or may not work, engines and diffs maybe blow up or they don’t, part or all of the circus maybe gets towed out or it doesn’t, the end. You know the drill. Related: Watch 4WD 24/7 Talk About The ..read more

The 2025 Polaris Ranger XP 1000 on paper got a minor refresh, but the update fixes everything we hated about it. (Polaris/) When Polaris trotted out news about the 2025 Ranger 1000 and XP 1000, the changes appeared to be little more than “bold new graphics.” Sure, there was some muttering about improved shift feel. A few words about a revised power steering system. But the big news seemed to be aimed at the updated front end designed to put the workhorse in line with machines like the Ranger Kinetic and XD 1500. It turns out that couldn’t be further from the truth. The reality is Polaris has ..read more

It’s never been easier to get financing for a Segway. (Segway/) Looking out the window at this bright new spring and wondering what to do with all that warm weather? Here’s some good news: Segway and powersports financing company Octane Lending have made it a little bit easier to hit the trail with a new rig. On April 18, Octane and Segway announced a partnership to provide promotional financing for US Segway customers. The promotion is being executed through Octane’s in-house lending arm, Roadrunner Financial. Since April 1 of this year, prime and non-prime buyers have been eligible for fina ..read more

The concept art for the National Conservation Legacy Center at the National Museum of Forest Service History. (National Museum of Forest Service History/) Yamaha has announced that it will be the exclusive motorized recreation sponsor for the National Conservation Legacy Center “Recreation” exhibit at the National Museum of Forest Service History. The grant comes through the Yamaha Outdoor Access Initiative, an organization that has donated more than $6 million to different off-road projects across the country. The National Conservation Legacy Center will open in Missoula, Montana, in 2025, a ..read more

We spent a morning getting cozy with the heavily revised 2025 Polaris Ranger XP 1000 NorthStar Ultimate to find out if the new machine is more than a pretty face. Turns out, it is. Sure, there’s an updated front end, but this is more than “bold new graphics.” Engineers aimed themselves at solving some of our biggest complaints with the workhorse, starting with something we’ve whinged about for years: the shifter. Polaris completely revised the CVT, throwing better machining and an all-new gearset at the “gen 2″ transmission. There is no more yanking on the shifter. No more hunting for the righ ..read more

Tesla has issued a stop sale of the Cybertruck to deal with a possible unintended acceleration issue. (Tesla/) Jalopnik reported this week that Tesla appears to have issued a stop sale on its controversial Cybertruck because the accelerator pedal can get stuck down. Apparently, the metal cover on the pedal can come loose and get wedged against the bulkhead, sticking the pedal open at full throttle. The Cybertruck will hit 60 mph in 2.5 seconds and weighs as much as a small moon, in case you had forgotten. And, because Tesla, the information is based on reports from X (Elon Musk’s re-branded T ..read more

Doug DeMuro gets under the skin of the new Toyota Land Cruiser. (Doug DeMuro/) All three editors of UTV Driver were born after their automotive time. To a man, we’re routinely enthralled by past-its-prime tech and lament the march toward ever heavier, ever more isolating cars and trucks. Sure, almost everything available now is faster, quieter, more efficient, more capable, more capacious, and safer than the stuff we like, but almost none of it excites us. Toyota modernized the old-school Land Cruiser’s blocky shape and made a winner. (Doug DeMuro/) But then Toyota introduced the new Land Cr ..read more