Ride Along: 2022 Polaris General XP 1000 Trailhead Edition

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00:00 Hey UTV drivers Kevin Ray here we've got another rig for trail 22 review a

00:10 special one today the Polaris general XP 1000 trailhead edition this is brand new

00:20 for 2022 and we've got it

00:29 ok so what's special for this trailhead edition

00:34 you're getting things like the front bumper the synthetic 4500 pound winch

00:45 special pro armor 30 inch tires the two-tone interior and this awesome

00:58 bed rack system with a lock and ride nothing changes on the bed it's still a

01:07 hydraulic dump it still has the 600 pound capacity you just get the added

01:16 benefit of a shelf and the molly strap system it's really cool up front you get

01:28 the LED 11 inch pro armor light bar rear view mirror LED lights all the way

01:37 around we come down below high clearance control arms front and rear and if I can

01:44 sneak in here you get the Walker Evans velocity series adjustable suspension

01:54 maybe we can see this side a little bit better there you go front and rear you

02:04 can see the adjustments are done right here for the dampening it's just

02:08 compression no rebound and again the high clearance control arms in the rear

02:15 this is a limited edition trailhead package

02:23 that does come with the 3d embossed and you can feel it it's raised vinyl

02:30 graphics this is Topo from an actual trail in Arizona just north of Phoenix

02:37 you get the metallic blue paint on the body the rest of the body which is very

02:44 handsome in person I don't know if it translates to the camera very well it is

02:50 matte and it does have a metallic flake in it inside you're going to get things

02:59 like ride command and a four speaker Rockford Fosgate sound system and the

03:11 footwells on each side and behind your head each speaker is about 50 watts I

03:18 believe and it's all controlled from the infotainment ride command screen all

03:27 right so enough chit-chat what do you say we go for a drive let's do it

03:32 it's at the trail this is trail marker 22 at wind rock OHV park in Oliver

03:41 Springs Tennessee same trail we always do

03:46 we're in the 2022 Polaris general XP 1000 trailhead edition

03:53 it's got a 999 CC engine parallel twin pro star naturally aspirated Polaris

04:04 says it pumps out about a hundred horsepower I believe it

04:15 throttle response is pretty good

04:20 it's a little twitchy but manageable there are no modes to change it

04:31 or tame it they found a reasonable middle ground

04:40 oh it's sloppy today we've had a lot of rain recently so this

04:46 video might be a little interesting

04:50 jumping from the engine into the transmission

05:02 got the normal EVT which is a CVT Polaris

05:08 own CVT transmission found on all XP 1000 models across the

05:14 lineup it comes with I don't know if you guys can see this or not comes with a

05:20 transfer case that splits power all the way down to turf mode so right now we're

05:24 in turf mode which is essentially one wheel drive great for driving around the

05:29 driveway doing work around the yard you're not going to tear anything up

05:34 we'll swap it into four-wheel drive you get two-wheel drive after turf mode

05:39 which essentially locks the rear axle

05:44 and then four-wheel drive on top of that four-wheel drive isn't really four-wheel

05:49 drive they call it all-wheel drive at any given point you've got three tires

05:55 turning it tries to do

06:02 traction control

06:04 I'd say it succeeds all right so big hill put it in low I don't

06:13 feel like changing a belt

06:16 it's nice and sloppy today I can feel the front end

06:23 trying to grab traction between the two tires and four-wheel drive

06:28 and what I mean by that is the steering will get stiff when they both try to

06:36 lock up and grab at the same time

06:39 big puddle

06:45 all right a little rock garden our first one we'll climb it with ease

07:03 these 30-inch pro armor tires

07:11 do a fantastic job we've had them in some

07:17 Georgia hard pack this sloppy stuff Tennessee clay

07:26 all over and they really don't disappoint

07:33 you

07:35 these hill climbs are where the XP 1000 engine really shines you've got

07:54 tons of torque to make it up never left feeling like you can use a

07:59 little more power

08:02 I'm going to crank

08:06 the damping

08:09 all the way down to soft

08:14 because we had it on full hard

08:20 while we were at the track last week

08:25 sending it off big jumps

08:30 and it's beating me to death

08:36 in case you're wondering really does make a difference when you go from one

08:45 extreme of the clicker to the other there's not a lot of finite detail in

08:53 there but

08:56 hard does make it harder and soft doesn't make it softer

09:00 all right on our way let's go back into high gear

09:08 pick up the pace

09:21 all right so the general platform is a sport rec rig it's kind of like a

09:25 crossover dual sport if you will

09:29 it doesn't really excel at anything it's very similar to Yamaha r-max

09:38 or the can-am commander it gives you the utility of a bed the

09:45 utility of a hitch receiver but it still tries to

09:52 incorporate the sport suspension of a pure sport

09:57 machine it's a the walker ebon velocity shocks

10:01 that are on this machine it it's it's a perfect solution

10:08 for the trails that we have

10:12 in the east we're never seeing high speeds

10:16 but you know we still need that articulation that damping control

10:22 and that total suspension travel to tackle obstacles in the trail

10:30 and i think it does a fantastic job

10:37 both front and rear axles

10:42 do have anti-sway bars on them which did hurt this machine in the rti

10:50 test but out here on the trail it doesn't

10:53 seem to really affect it

10:58 so

11:01 general seems very well made

11:17 the interior the exterior it all oozes a premium feel and it better

11:25 this thing costs 28 000 almost 29 000 in its base form

11:33 you can bolt on factory accessories from there

11:39 i don't think this unit came with any factory accessories from polaris

11:47 i may be wrong if i am crucify me in the comments

11:53 i love to hear what you guys think and i love

11:57 to learn new things from

12:01 the folks that own these rigs and know every bolt on them

12:06 we only get to keep them for maybe a week or two

12:11 i never have the time to become intimate with them

12:14 we spend just enough time in them to set a good baseline

12:19 and learn how they feel on as many trails as we can get them on

12:24 but these aren't long-term test units you know we don't know how they'll

12:32 perform in two years

12:36 that being said the general is one of my favorite platforms

12:43 this is a two-seater but you can get it in a four-seater a true four-seater

12:49 and it still retains the utility bed in the back

12:52 it is a very long unit but

12:56 it gives you all the features of this rig with two more seats

13:01 and i really like that

13:04 power steering is just about perfect on this thing it is

13:14 it is power assist

13:17 as you're hitting the bumps and going over the rocks

13:22 it's going to help limit that bump that you know feedback in the

13:27 steering wheel just a little bit but you can still feel

13:30 what's going on no problem just helps limit fatigue

13:35 most side-by-sides and utvs have that now

13:40 that is one of the problems we've seen

13:44 i don't know if you guys caught that

13:47 but there's a rubber

13:53 mat that hangs out in there and anytime you press the accelerator

13:59 with a little bit of force it just flies out

14:02 i don't know if it's supposed to be clipped in or not but

14:06 it's run out a few times

14:10 so

14:13 all right let's get up here

14:20 find some rocks i don't like going through the mud because

14:28 i have to clean these

14:32 so i typically try to just go around

14:38 the rocks

14:41 oh we've had some water intrusion

14:57 but there are nice big drain holes it's probably why there was water intrusion

15:07 that being said the half doors on this thing are great

15:11 it really helps keep the mud outside and your body parts inside

15:20 the bucket seats are supremely bolstered they're just

15:32 ultra comfortable i could sit in this thing all day no problem

15:38 comes with a three-point

15:41 seat belt like you would find in an automobile but there are ways to

15:48 upgrade it to a four-point

15:51 i don't know why you would in a sport rank unit though

15:58 okay onward

16:02 i think i can face just ahead see how this thing handles its speed

16:08 tracks very straight direction it'll go

16:16 this is not like a normal utility rig

16:25 with the sport style suspension high clearance

16:28 control arms

16:31 you can pick up the pace quite a bit and it

16:35 just eats it up

16:38 awkwardly it does like to jump it's very well mannered in the air

16:44 stays pretty flat

16:47 unlike some of the other units we've tested that tend to nosedive

16:52 as long as you're on the throttle and unload that front suspension as

16:57 you're hitting the lip of the jump like

17:00 it uh soars through the air

17:05 all right rock field

17:09 i really like the way this thing feels

17:20 in the rocks more technical trail just kind of eats it up

17:24 steering wheel's a good size and i just soaked my face

17:28 it's got nice thumb rests

17:32 they're soft but still supportive

17:38 i like that this machine doesn't it tends not to bottom out

17:47 i don't know if it's got

17:50 damping that ramps up variable damping or variable coils or what but

17:58 compared to some other models with fox suspension

18:03 it seems to limit bottom bottoming out a little bit more than

18:09 those let's climb over the rock so this thing's got 13 and a half inches

18:16 of ground clearance

18:20 and climbing over that rock not even close

18:25 you've got the high clearance control arms

18:28 flat underbody lots of skid plates

18:34 and the big 30 inch tires all that culminates to uh basically being able to

18:39 drive over whatever you want

18:42 to do

18:45 all right here's our big rock crawling test

18:54 this one is unique in that not only

19:00 is it technical but it's also

19:04 in a stream which is

19:09 questionably legal in in the state that we're in

19:12 you gotta you gotta drive slowly try not to disturb the wildlife

19:21 but at the same time it makes all the rocks

19:26 the general has no problem navigating it

19:36 all right so general xp1000 trailhead

19:42 laris states that it's a uh a dry weight

19:51 1801 pounds which is pretty heavy for a utv on our scales on the

19:59 utv driver scales it weighed just to tick over that wet

20:03 1806 pounds

20:07 all that utility comes at the cost of more weight

20:13 but this is the perfect rig for extended trips

20:20 out to the backcountry

20:23 it's just got heaps of storage space ways to attach things

20:33 it's a great driveline powerful engine

20:37 if you're planning on multi-day trips

20:43 you can't beat this thing

20:48 oh it's just eating up this wet muddy trail no issues at all

21:01 so

21:03 all right so

21:08 as far as the infotainment system goes standard ride command

21:13 standard polaris ride command

21:16 you get all your gauges you get your gps you get your friend tracking system

21:23 you know radio everything that comes with right command

21:26 normally you get and then the trailhead edition

21:31 tacks on the stage three rocket plus gate sound system

21:38 and that means you're getting two speakers in the front footwells

21:42 two speakers behind your head each speaker is a six and a half inch

21:47 driver being pushed with 50 watts it gets loud it doesn't

21:55 get crazy loud like a big massive sound bar will but it

22:02 stays clear and you can definitely hear your music

22:08 over the relatively quiet engine exhaust

22:13 that was one of the things that we did not like about

22:16 the yamaha r max is how loud

22:20 the engine was

22:23 polaris has uh nailed that down with the general

22:27 you can hear it

22:30 it tickles your eardrums but it's not loud

22:34 and it won't leave your ears hurting at the end of the day like the rmx

22:38 can do

22:40 all right let's go back down to low

22:53 this is this has gotten

22:58 this has gotten a little crazy

23:02 for trail 22

23:06 i like it all right let's try that again

23:18 we'll take a slightly more left

23:23 and it's situations like that when you're trying to

23:32 hop up a rock stab or navigate a boulder field that the sway

23:38 bars really detract from

23:43 the performance level of this machine i think with better articulation

23:47 it wouldn't feel so squirrely used to being off camber but

23:51 for somebody brand new to be in that situation we were just in

23:57 i think it would

24:00 detract from the trip a little bit it would be scary

24:07 getting close to the end of the trail i just want to thank you for tuning in

24:13 watching our rides

24:16 i'm gonna say it's not fun because it's a lot of fun doing these

24:24 but it is work

24:29 so

24:32 let's go

24:35 so

24:38 so

24:41 so

24:58 so

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