I have the Honda rancher and love it, take it out on the ice quite a bit and use it hunting a bit to drive the trails and some for retrieval, but the most use the wheelers get is the ice season. They start nice and I have the electronic shift ones where you have to shift through the gears just like a manual but right on the handle bars so you do not have to have the foot under the lever so I can have the bait bucket on the foot peg and not interrupt my shifting and all, love it and have used automatics as well just like the put it in this gear and slowly go down hills and things so I can use the brakes less. just my opinion. Hope this helps some, let me know if you need anything else, love the Honda machines.