I find side-by-sides to be just as fun and/or useful as the next guy, but golly, they’re expensive. I’ve tested a handful that cost more than $30,000, and the priciest one I’ve ever put to work is the $52,000 Polaris Ranger XD 1500. It was handy, no doubt, but something like this Chinese UTV with a Harbor Freight Predator engine swap is… uh… more in line with my budget.
Something like that could only be the work of Robot Cantina on YouTube, whose builds we’ve featured several times here on The Drive. The host, affectionately known as Jimbo, has engineered some wild projects—from a dual-engined, diesel-electric golf cart to a supercharged Kubota-powered Honda Insight. This experiment is another in that same vein, as it combines a Hisun UTV with a 420cc single-cylinder.
Jimbo stumbled across the rig after it had sat parked for year …
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Author: Caleb Jacobs
