Is this the BEST Honda Pioneer EVER?!

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We just got our hands on a 2023 Honda Pioneer 1000-6 and we’re already stoked on it! It’s a better machine in almost every respect than the Honda Pioneer 1000-5 we had last year. Here’s why!   Check out the full feature at https://www.utvdriver.com/reviews/honda-pioneer-1000-6-review-video-2023/  For more stories, reviews, and first-looks check out https://www.utvdriver.com/  Want to see even more shenanigans from the UTV Driver team? Give us a like and follow:   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UTVdriver/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/utvdrivermagazine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/utvdriver/

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00:00 Hey guys, Aaron Richardson here with UTVdriver and we're back with another Honda Pioneer.

00:05 This time it's the 2023 Honda Pioneer 1006.

00:10 Now last time we had the 1005 Trail Edition, which was a four-seater that had kind of these

00:17 compromised rear seats in the back.

00:19 Well for 2023, Honda has rethought some things and come out with this.

00:24 It's a full four-door, full cab Honda Pioneer and this time the rear seats have enough room

00:33 for a grown adult.

00:35 Stay tuned, let's check it out.

00:44 All right, so what's great about the 2023 Honda Pioneer 1006, as I said, is that it

00:50 has proper four doors and a proper full interior.

00:53 So before, if you remember the Pioneer 1005, the bed was covered by the roof and the seats

00:59 sort of folded out of the bed.

01:01 They've done away with that for this year and now you can still get a 1005, but on the

01:05 1006, the cab covers the interior like you'd want it and then there's a proper full-size

01:12 UTV bed back here.

01:14 We'll get to that bed in a second.

01:15 Let's take a look at the interior.

01:17 Now up front, it's the same standard fare you would get on any other Honda Pioneer.

01:23 You've got the net storage and the same dashboard as you had before, but out back is where it

01:31 gets really interesting.

01:33 So as you saw me in a minute ago, I got in and sat down and again, full-sized American

01:38 adult, this time fits really nicely.

01:42 And what's even cooler than that is in front of my feet, the entire space taken up by the

01:48 front bench seat, there is storage for so much stuff.

01:52 Now again, if you'll remember from our 1005 video, one of the complaints we had was that

01:57 when you've got a full crew of passengers, there's really not that much storage room

02:02 in the cab of the rig and here that's taken care of.

02:05 Now there's room for three people across without really touching each other.

02:11 It wouldn't be the most comfortable thing in the world, but you could sit back here

02:14 all day with two passengers, maybe not on a trail ride, but certainly when you were

02:19 doing some work.

02:20 There's a nice generous grab bar, there's seat belts for everybody and the cabin is

02:24 nice and airy.

02:26 It's a real step up from what the last one was.

02:28 Now coming to the back, the bed is in the hydraulic assisted dump bed, which is really

02:35 sweet.

02:36 It's operated by a little lever in here.

02:38 Now one little niggle is that you can't operate the rear bed without opening the rear doors.

02:47 Not a huge deal, but why couldn't you put a lever on the outside of the door?

02:51 A lot of other people have figured it out.

02:54 But that small concern aside, again, this is hydraulically assisted, which is really

03:00 nice.

03:02 It's easy to move up and move down.

03:04 There's this cool step here, so if you've got a heavy load, you've got a little bit

03:07 more leverage.

03:08 And, like I said, it's got a full proper sized bed, the same as a Can-Am Defender or

03:14 a Polaris Ranger, which is really generous.

03:18 There are still some, again, some other small things.

03:21 Honda still insists on this double latch for the tailgate, which I still can't make sense

03:27 of and I wish it was just a central latch.

03:31 I know with Big Red's engineering might, they're fully capable of making a traditional

03:35 tailgate handle, but that aside, everything out here looks pretty good.

03:41 You still don't get any safety chain mounts on your trailer hitch, which is, again, really

03:46 more than an oversight and something that should be rectified.

03:49 We wish they had fixed it, but they haven't.

03:51 Up front, more of the same.

03:53 It's just like the Honda 1000, or Pioneer 1005.

03:57 You get the same great dashboard.

03:59 You get the same fantastic levers for transmission.

04:03 The transfer case, you get turf mode.

04:07 You still have the same very basic LED functions on the, or LCD, excuse me, functions on the

04:12 dashboard.

04:13 There's still plenty of storage.

04:15 One nice thing that's different between this and the Pioneer 1005 is that the front seat

04:21 is no longer sitting directly on top of the engine, so you're not going to get cooked

04:25 on a hot summer trail ride, which is a really nice feature.

04:31 It's still powered by the 1000cc parallel twin that comes out of the Africa twin, and

04:36 you still get the dual clutch transmission, so it's still very much a Honda in that respect.

04:41 That comes with good and bad.

04:44 The other thing that Honda does that's a little bit different from other manufacturers is

04:48 that they do include a GPS navigation unit, but instead of putting it in the dashboard

04:55 as an integrated part of the rig, it comes separate and it's Garmin branded.

05:01 The good thing about that is that you can take it off if you don't need it on the

05:05 bop around the farm.

05:07 The bad thing about that is it's a little bit cumbersome to use and kind of can be in

05:11 the way.

05:13 I think in an ideal world, there'd be an option for like an LCD screen like a lot of

05:17 other manufacturers do, but we'll wait to pass judgment until we've put this thing further

05:23 through its paces.

05:24 Which is coming up on UTVDriver.com and here on YouTube.

05:28 We are at our hobby farm in Virginia.

05:31 We're going to put this thing through its paces here.

05:34 We're going to do some trail building and a couple other things.

05:36 You'll see it here on YouTube.

05:37 You'll see it on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, anywhere else you can find us, and every day

05:41 of the week at UTVDriver.com.

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