The Yamaha YXZ and Polaris RZR are both three-letter side-by-sides with solid off-road credentials, but which is right for you? Here's how they differ.

A New Six-Speed Transmission. If there was one fault of Yamaha’s YXZ five-speed transmission, it was the gear ratios. The YXZ offered fantastic high-speed, high-rpm performance, but due to the ...

The Yamaha YXZ1000R gave us what we all wanted. Anyone who’s ever rode a motorcycle knows that the shifting pattern is one-down/four-up, and the YXZ uses this same pattern.

The YXZ has a ton of travel ... Riding or driving off road is unlike anything else you’ll experience on wheels and, thanks to Yamaha’s new YXZ1000R UTV side-by-side, you can go farther, ...

Yamaha Motor Corp., USA announces the winner of the 2017 YXZ Supercross Sweepstakes for the 2017 Monster Energy AMA Supercross season.Wyatt Bevans of Hesperia, CA was randomly selected as the ...

Yamaha's top-of-the-line two-seater off-road race buggy now features ... Having owned 3 RZRS and a YXZ 1000ss I can say that I would rather have a dual range CVT any day than a transmission thats ...

Rather than attempting to revive the car with a new powertrain, they made the decision to strip it down and bolt the iQ body structure onto a manual 2019 Yamaha YXZ side-by-side. The 2019 Yamaha ...

I tried two setups of YXZ. Both had the SS shifter but different gearing. Yamaha offers a torque assist gear kit that reduces original gearing by 30 percent and drops first gear by 70 percent.

Compared to the pricey Can-Am Maverick, both the Yamaha YXZ and Polaris RZR look like steals. With a price tag starting at $19,999 (plus $1,195 destination), the latter is more affordable than its ...