BRAND NEW 2023 Can Am Maverick Sport XRC Review and Trail Test!! GIVEAWAY VIDEO 3!! (2023)

Introduction

Andrew visits the D3 compound to show us his new Can Am Maverick Sport XRC. We go through many specs and do a little testing with it.

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Oh so stylish do that again, oh so stylish so Andrew, we've converted you've probably seen him before that face that big Jeep over here.

Yeah, he he broke that on the uh at the birthday, yeah, birthday trip.

So, but we've converted another one he's tried to lie to us and say that he had no money.

And then he just showed up today with this I don't know, that's so weird, this guy's brand new brand, new it's, got brand new it's, got how many miles just loaded it on the trailer it's even got the little tags, oh 1942 because I did a lap around here.

It's got the tag still this puppy's brand spank in 2023 or 2023, 23.

I, like the colors on it RC or sport, xrc sport, Maverick sport, xrc trip, Maverick, Trail, yeah, Maverick sport, drills, I'm.

Never gonna get this right? There's, too many words.

But yes, we've converted another one.

So now we have two Can-Ams, which is pretty sweet just a little one, but I think it'll do the job tell us the things that Drew you to this of all the different ones on there, because a lot of people don't have one of these.

So what are some things that are really good about it? So the main attraction was the Jeep is wide as hell 92 inches wide on 42s, I hit everything.

It weighs like 6, 700 pounds.

We go out with the side by side, I'm clear, cutting the sides of trails for everyone.

It gets comically bad.

Sometimes so I wanted something that was much more narrow.

So this was a 64 inch wide.

So I could fit between things I'm, not hitting trees.

I'm, not losing my mirrors, I'm not losing body armor off the Jeep you're kind of like a sweet spot like you're, not wide like the X3 like 72 wide, but you're, not super narrow like a 60 or like a even small now like an ATV.

Yeah.

So it's kind of like the Cowie, but a little bit skinnier.

Yeah, the cow is what 68 68.

Yeah, okay, it's a bit of a hybrid.

So I can fit places I'm, not smashing off all the time and damaging Parts.

There language, Andrew, sorry, you put the bumpers full doors, which is really nice with the sport, or the trails I think the Trail's the same this Trail and Sport all have actual door.

Handles.

Yes.

The other KN Mavericks, it's, the rope that you have to pull in there.

Yeah, the actual full enclosed doors.

The X3 is kind of this weird half door hybrid.

And then you have to buy the bottoms.

Yeah, that's silly.

So it's, even got seals like a rubber, yeah, it's like weather.

Stripping.

Yeah, that's.

Quite nice.

I.

Get like the point is like if you're in a much warmer climate or a Sandy climate.

It makes more sense.

But up here.

We have so much mud so much dirt we're just running trails.

Man.

It just gets so sloppy kind of some enclosure.

We do have a bunch of rock like the Canadian Shield so up, North, uh, Northern, Ontario.

We do a lot of granite like slab, Rock and there's some mud at the bottom of the climbs and then smooth rocks.

So the rock crawling does make sense like you don't need the the mud model that they make with the snorkels and the paddle tires because we're not sitting in mud all day, it's, a not like it's, a mixed train.

Yeah.

That is the purpose.

Okay? And how big are the uh, the tires on this I think they're little 30 inches.

Yeah, that's.

Okay, 30 inch, eight, ply, though so they're, pretty tough.

But these aren't a bead lock.

So you don't get a bead lock with this like that that is kind of silly on a rock crawling Edition.

You'd think it'd come with a bead lock, but gunmetal gray with metallics nice, the flake they are air they're aired up by the dealer they're, still, pretty low.

You get some give on it.

So a little bit we're just airing down to like two pieces.

I think, the sticker that we tore off in the back said, 20 and the lowest you should put it to is 14., and they are a Maxis like I, I, love Maxi's tires from the racing scene.

And everything I would not be afraid to run these tires, I'm, pretty confident they're, not going to work good in the muck at all they're going to fill up and be smooth, but on regular Trails, all the birthday hats for Andrew, but on the Rock and on the regular Trail they're, soft like look at how much I can Flex tread on it that's, a soft tire.

So they're gonna they're gonna work.

Now we've got Maxes on both of the rigs.

Now like Maxis is a top contender in my opinion, all vehicles and it's got what are these shocks? They got Fox threes.

You can see on the back, but they're only I might not be able to see that position, clicker and they're.

A 5 8 shaft up front and there's 7, 8 shaft in the back.

So the back has a bigger resi and it's, a two and a half inch shock body.

Yeah, I think this is silly the exhaust pointing right at your shock it's like so close like literally when it fires I can see the water.

Yeah, off of It from the exhaust we're gonna have to do some Shock rebuilds here.

One of the yeah, we need to tune I went for a drive with him just up the driveway.

And it was rough.

Yeah, um, like if this is this is on one that's as soft as it.

It doesn't, even move.

Oh I can't, pull in the plastic.

Yeah, like that it's stiff, yeah.

So as you can see by size, it is a little bit smaller than the Cowie I'm talking about shocks and suspension, it's a arms front and rear.

Oh, yeah.

A lot of the other machines like ours, cowies they're trailing arm, yeah, with a much larger shock.

So look at that, the length is a 14 inch coilover where this is an eight inch coilover.

So what's, the travel on it.

Do you remember the specs hell? We can always we can always like pop them in the video.

Yeah, we can add them in yeah, what's.

Yeah, it's, 14 inches.

What's.

The clearance I think clearance is forcing isn't it.

It looks about the same as the Cali, but it hasn't sagged at all yet right.

Yeah.

It's about the same and it's, a single rate spring.

So when coilovers like on those machines, they have a coil slider, an isolator it's, a plastic piece and there's.

Another set of rings that are below and there's, two Springs, the isolator separating them.

So you have a dual rate, and you get on the stiffer spring as it compresses this being a small shock package.

You only have one spring, one spring rate.

So your only adjustment when tuning it is just in the valving.

You don't have two Springs to play with and the crossover ring to adjust as you get through the travel to stiffen it up to avoid bottoming out it's going to be a linear spring rate, the whole time on one spring, okay.

So it's way more catered to a trail, riding where a machine like this, or even like the lower base models come with the bigger.

Shock package in the trailing arm.

So it has more tunability in the suspension to be able to go more aggressively on like whoops and jumps where this is really catered to just trail.

Riding yeah, it's gonna be sweet on the trails, though I think I'm excited to see what it does.

I'm curious to see what's like, yeah, so much smaller than what I'm used to.

Yeah.

So with this you could get if you feel like deadlifting.

So with these shocks, you could get a like a spring.

And then valving is the only yeah.

So you can change this spring out for a stiffer or softer spring.

So depending on how I don't think you want to go stiffer.

Well, you might you know what that is important it sags down.

You can only address preload so much.

Then you have to go to a stiffer spring, because you only want a Max of an inch and a half two inches of preload one inch to one and a half.

If it requires more to achieve the ride height.

We go to a stiffer spring, then we'll, put the right preload, the k, m, offers like 350 plus accessories.

So you can load this up with a lot of weight so you're getting 333 of them.

This is going to be a billboard for Can-Am.

Shortly yes, you might have extend the trailer to put both of them on there.

So that that's, yeah, maybe so that's really cool with the suspension and the differences.

But what else does it have? We can't just has the bumpers front rear bumpers.

So this is Factory, you didn't have to add this.

It comes.

This is part of the package, but that you purchased separately.

The only thing separate was the the roof with the dealer cut through them for a good deal.

Yeah, but it doesn't come with it.

No you have to buy it.

Oh, it has a rear view.

Mirror.

Yeah, uh.

Winch is all part of the package I do like the bumper on this I always thought that was kind of cool it's.

Just it looks like it bits.

It kind of looks like an extension of the cage.

One of the main parts for the rock crawling specific.

One is the whole Underside is that heavy duty, plastic, yeah, it's like the H I like the robotic well with all the spiders.

Yeah, we discovered already that you can push this thing back over with your thumb.

So we're, good, yeah, you gotta get those sway bars off.

Yeah, yeah.

But yeah, it's cool I like it.

So there's, not a single mod to it done.

Yet.

We've just been playing in the uh compound here, doing a little rock crawling and driving around getting some heat Cycles through the motor through the belt through the diffs he's got to do all this braking on us.

So we just let it sit go for a rip let it sit.

Yeah, that's really cool.

What about the inside Andrew what's all what's going on on the inside? The seats compared to our friends X3 are quite a bit different they're like real nice, like gel foam, they're, pretty cushy.

Actually, yeah.

They've got really good low back support.

Our like comparisons appear a piece of bar set pretty high because for everything we have now is pure Peaks.

You have both KR X's are PRP being a prpg, there's, literally, pure piece seats sitting all over the shop.

So, yeah, these aren't bad for stock, basic seats.

Yeah, don't need to throw any money at those yet, no.

And it has a harness bar and the harness holes.

So you could just throw some harnesses in you get real door, handles with rear actual rear door and it's real doors so hard to say, real, real, I have another one there's, no storage behind the scenes No.

So the seats are, but yeah, you're right against us like the seats are literally designed to fit against it.

So if you go look at the Cowie there's, 10 inches of room, yeah, behind the seat.

Even with this seat, even with this seat, all the way back there's, still lots of room.

So you can store your extra clothes and stuff and there's only two cup holders in this thing and they're low and they're low like putting anything in this where's our beer.

We need a demonstration beer.

Oh, you mean, it's, a demonstration beverage it's, that's, not good at all I mean, that is a skinny can clearly I didn't.

Think people drink on the trail like I'm, not allowed to do that.

Yeah, this storage is sweet, deep storage like another goggles.

It comes with a little tool kit full tool kit tool.

So not too too bad.

You got storage above the driver's side's got the little storage, sunglasses cell phone fits in there, pretty nice there's a lot of pre-cut ants for a lot of the accessories, which is pretty cool and there's somewhere up.

This is a ready for a switch.

Pod, yeah.

You can put switch it up here.

This part I believe, it's, really like okay, this for one of these cuts out and bolts in.

But you can get the whole roof.

Air distribution system.

I think it's called, oh, is it like a vent? Yeah, it's.

A whole like vent like cool, cowling system, neat it's kind of cool.

But we've seen how we get on the trail.

Yeah, I.

Don't, blow it right out air, pumpers better.

I mean, if I knew someone who makes filters, you probably have something in stock though to work, yeah, yeah, it's it's endless the amount of options you get.

Yeah, light switches over here.

You get a winch over here.

This has the um, the front diff lock and it's.

What was what are you guys calling it? Smart? Lock, Smart, Lock, yeah.

So you get four by four it's like instant, uh, yeah, you're a rock.

Trail.

You can change you kind of hear the servos running.

Yeah, you got eco mode, which slows it down a bit takes the same as this like the pretty much all the BRP products.

Ecobo just takes all your throttle right here.

So it assumes less fuel.

Cool.

And this is how you control the cluster.

Right? This guy right here.

Yeah.

So, yeah, that's all like up down left frame, change your screen or change the settings through there.

That's pretty cool.

Pretty nice pretty light.

Yeah, um I'm gonna have to give it a rip.

Yeah.

Our friends X3 is very stiff in comparison.

Unpredictable problems with that.

Shock therapies like it's like two fingers or three fingers really if it was if you were driving it, would it moves easily? Yeah, you're even just doing just doing.

Yeah, we'll have to get some in-cab, uh footage for you guys.

We're gonna have to do some comparisons here, I think next.

Now after we're done discussing everything we like and don't like we could do like, turning radius comparisons and flexing comparisons to compare the different machines because people who might be in the market for a strictly Trail machine.

This would be in their lineup of what they're looking at, but so would the Cowie.

And so with the Polaris, uh, XP or something like not the race top Pro R, but not the regular Polaris.

Yeah.

All three are Trail contenders.

So it's, nice to be able to give the viewers.

The comparisons, well, we don't like this about it.

But we do like that this one turns better than that one there's more stories.

This is actually the machine.

We were originally going to buy when we were looking at side by sides.

We had a deposit on one and uh, yeah.

It was a blue 2022, I think and uh, yeah.

We just uh.

We just decided to go for the krx.

It was the suspension and the size that's.

What it was like, yeah, that was trailing arm with 14-inch travel, shocks versus the little stuff being a suspension in race car.

Guys, that'll be more fun.

Yeah, yeah.

But this will definitely do What.

It's gotta do 100 I'm excited.

I think it's gonna be like a little billy goat, just climb up things.

Yeah, we just don't have anything to climb up right now.

Oh, we got stuff right up the jump cool.

And what was in here again, this little that's, the air filter that's, how you access the air filter.

So you have one air filter on this side.

And then one on the other pop in pull your cap off there.

That's, pretty sweet.

It's got a dipstick for the oil, which is cool, Breezy, pretty like easy access, though, yeah, the one thing I know, I just moved it for him to park it here beside the Cowie.

And the one thing that I did notice about, it was the clutching compared to the Cali it's kind of like the X3, but not quite as bad where just trying to pull it around the parking lot here.

It was very like so touchy on the throttle and so jerky to try and go slow.

It doesn't want to go slow I was in high range.

So maybe low would be better and I need more seat time.

But that's.

The first thing I noticed I yelled over like this thing is like touchy and jerky.

It doesn't just smooth take off because, yeah, it doesn't have the wet clutch inside.

So the primaries just grabbing and unloading and it's like it's weird.

Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I like that, but you can tune that too, yeah, change the weights change, the Springs, yep, sweet.

And then, yeah, you were saying storage back here is pretty good I was I was sitting back in here earlier if it would fit two medium-sized, humans comfortably, more or less.

If you wanted, if you wanted, yeah, just don't, go too fast.

You can check your coolant level.

That's, pretty cool handy there's, not some effort to make it serviceable, which is kind of nice.

Yeah, yeah.

It seems uh everything's built around their link, queue system there.

Oh, yes, the boxes and stuff that go in there it's like so you could pull I'm, pretty sure most of them are interchangeable.

So I could pull that off there and throw it like on the Sea-Doo or whatever.

So especially, and you can pull your CDs with it right in like a a liner that must be just because it was brand new that doesn't stay.

Yeah, that doesn't stay that's.

Just part of the manufacturing the bananas for your Challenger because that's two inch and that's, just like for manufacturing or something you can't, leave BRP made in Mexico.

Oh.

Mexican.

Cool.

Nice, little license plate, tucked in there Energy power sports in Oakville.

Go talk to Brad and Neil don't.

Look at the number though are these on they're like glowing it's like a diffused light around the outside that's neat, that's, nice, yeah, yeah, that's neat.

And this little that kind of reminds me of a trailer, a little bit it's, very utility like in the back, but it's kind of again, Best of Both Worlds, right? You kind of get at least a bit of a lip to put stuff here.

Yeah, I kind of wish that they made the back come out to match the width of the tire.

So you have more storage.

Yeah, they made that really small looking at it.

When you look at the size of the storage in the county, even with the subwoofer, yeah, with all this all the way through like imagine, if we didn't have the special edition with the stereo, we could fit almost a full 35 inch spare in there.

Yeah, I think that's.

The point one of the packages you get for the k-rex is the 35 spare sitting in there, yeah, that's.

Why your fronts or Corners are tapered too much.

This will never fit that.

No.

They do make a whole cage that bolts on top of here.

Okay, spare on top.

Okay.

And hydraulic assist things that flip up or is it just solid I think it's just Street solid like two bars to stick.

Okay? But you can also stick and it's.

Twelve hundred dollars, yeah, bend over.

But you can also get those like trunks for the back of here.

Yeah, yeah.

That's pretty cool.

Jerry.

Cannon.

Yeah, yeah.

It's pretty sweet.

Whatever you want I like that idea house, oh, sit in it and we'll show the Headroom, oh yes.

That's.

All this roll cage put your arms straight out.

You can chop a foot in foot out of this that's.

Something that's impressive.

You won't hit your head because your head's like to the top of the seat.

Yeah, it is a good sized seat.

Pull yourself on that's kind of nice.

Yeah, I, don't know, if that was intentional Maybe because how tall are you like six foot five, eleven something around there, five, eleven, three quarter.

So six foot so you're, not you're, not you're, not a really sharp man.

And you have a lot of room in there.

Yeah, a shocking amount of space.

Yeah, it's cool, especially for the Jeep.

The Jeep I'm only like, oh here, Mel you sitting there and let's see, you're, five, five, five, five, six, seven measured in a while you don't, even oh you're.

Both you got a longer shorter torso.

You just gotta slam it I didn't want to hurt it.

So, yeah, there is a ton of room even Andrew touched my knee when we went for a drive and he's like the dealer told me to watch, you you'll, touch your friends, you're, angry, I, don't want to touch you, yeah, it's tight in there, that's cool.

But yeah, you can see the seats like, um, I'm, not a massive person.

I'm, pretty average sized.

Woman, I think my shoulders all right.

So this is the flex text.

The flex test flesh learning Flex test, um we're, gonna do it with the sway bar attached first and then we're gonna take it off and see how much of a difference she makes this thing is a absolute monster.

You're gonna see what it can do it's gonna outperform anything you've ever seen a little billy goat.

You do this little rock this guy here or that little rock that one's even smaller, you can do this one don't roll.

It it's.

The first day let's, see the rock crawl, your front tires off the ground all right? So we got that tire lifted you can go up more.

You want more what you're showing us is a dozen Flex at all this shock.

Just moved we're off the ground on this tire.

Wanna try the other Rock.

Oh yeah, I'll, put it in rock mode.

We're.

Okay.

That's about 10 inches.

Yeah.

All right back her up.

Try this rock.

Don't.

Flop on me.

Come on baby.

Oh, get up there.

You had her go back up.

Let's.

Go you're.

Good, yeah.

It doesn't Flex like maybe a quarter inch suspension.

You might move a quarter inch, you're, good.

We trying to roll it that's, good, yeah, it's like a teeter-talk.

Yeah, it's.

Pretty comfy in here.

All right.

Let's.

Take the sway bars off and uh, see what happens? All right? We got the uh sway bar off.

There we'll test it again back to the Little Rock, all right? Nope.

Little.

Rock.

First Little, Rock, first, wow, the tires stayed on the ground.

Go all the way up all the way a little bit more.

Yeah, that's better over it.

Come on Rock crop bruh.

Oh, the tire came off.

You only got about an inch more Flex, that's, I'd say, significantly better.

You don't feel it.

Yeah, all right upgrade to the medium.

Oh, the Tigers stayed on the ground.

Look at that.

Now it's rock crawling.

You just gotta take the sway bar links off.

We got rock mode on a fall by Fall.

Yeah, no tipping.

This time.

Yeah, play three wheel.

Come right up just rock crawling on our landscaping that's.

Our garden get up there.

Oh, you got it let's.

Go there.

You go all right tire came off on that one, but it's, not that bad that's as much as it was off on the small rocks before.

So yeah, still go up higher.

Yeah, yeah.

That's about the peak of it.

So you're, you're, three wheel in there, but it's not bad.

Now you can fix the gravel after get a rake out it's got like a little bit of flex.

Now.

Yeah, yeah.

That's not bad now we should grab the Cowie and compare keys are in it.

He was having a glass in behind us.

We're tireston, no tire lift good.

They are yeah, but completely different suspension in general so much.

Yeah, foreign what's.

Going on guys, I got my hood on because the Flies are just brutal out here.

So we're in our local gravel pit if you've watched our other videos, we put on YouTube.

We've been here a couple times and Andrew just got his first rip in on his brand, new Can-Am Maverick.

What is this a Maverick sport, xrc and um, just hit 50k he's got 50 kilometers on it and he's, absolutely loving it.

So we've all taken it for a rip there's Mel.

She just got out of it.

And our first impressions are the uh shock tune for the chatter like this rough little ruts and chops and rocks is very stiff, but on a big Geo like a big jump or a big hit it's, very plush for that.

Um, the throttle is super touchy, super responsive.

And the clutching seems really on point for the size of the tires.

It puts the power to the ground.

So now we're just going to compare back to back the Cowie to the Maverick Sport and give a like right away get out of one get in the other to really get a feel of the two to really help Andrew see the differences and see what he thinks about them back to back because it's one thing to uh, drive one.

And then a half an hour later or a week later or two weeks later, hopping, another one and compare it's one to go back to back and and see what you think, yeah, yeah, I think it's, pretty cool it's it's.

You feel like so comparing the Cowie to this I feel like in this, you are more on top of the vehicle and it's much shorter the front.

So you get like you see a lot more, um, yeah.

It just feels like your own in like a UFO, almost like you're in the center, it's weird.

Whereas that feels more like a car like you're set back into it where the Can-Am is even like, the X3 is even more than the Cowie.

Yeah, I get her like star back in it I like the visibility, too.

You feel much more aware of how big you are.

And it fits between all the little trails and trees and everything, yeah, throttle.

Responses, just stupid, it's, really touchy it's, really touchy.

Yeah, it's like they're, completely different.

And it grabs, and it goes like they consider both the krx.

And this sport in the same class of like a trail, rig, not a turboed race rig, and they are completely different machines.

They are not remotely the same in any way.

I don't think, oh we can we could drag race.

We could drag race.

Yeah, we got enough on the back I, got 35s and it's a little heavier I'm.

Curiously, so we'll, see, okay.

So they're gonna do a drag race here.

I'm gonna do the arm drop and they're both in four-wheel drive.

Okay.

So the Can-Am is Factory.

And the Cowie is Factory on 35s.

Look how we lost by a little bit, but 35 inch tires.

Now 35s are a big difference.

So maybe it's the tires, no tune on that.

So you guys are really close, but you're on 35s and he's on factory tires.

And he was very slowly pulling away.

I think if you had the tune, you guys would be neck and neck.

Yeah.

So, yeah, you need it I.

Think you would need a soft krx to really compare.

Yeah, they're like for 35s.

It wasn't too hard.

You were right there.

You were right there.

Yours, bogged a bit taking off, or he did it and I think that's the tires.

Yeah, yeah.

We're just saying we think being the 35 is a no tune.

You were just barely ahead of her pulling away.

Slowly I think, it's that bit of grunt out of the whole smaller tires, other than that.

They're pretty much the same speed.

It was close I.

Think the weight in the tires make a huge difference.

Huge.

If we put stock tires back on this, you'd probably neck and neck 100 all right guys.

So the sun's going down here, we're running out of daylight.

So we're gonna go, uh out that way and we're gonna run all the trails in the bush and then we're gonna head back to the D3 compound.

He's got his breaking down.

We've got a bunch of heat Cycles through it.

We got about 100 kilometers on it.

Now so we're gonna go see how it does in the bush and in the muck and that drag race was a good time.

We really think that they're pretty comparable in speed.

Now, just this has bigger tires, which are heavier.

So yeah, we're gonna go that way into the bush go check out the mud.

But this check out this ggb exhaust it's, getting nice color to it from the Heat stainless is looking good it's.

Nice.

You ready to go in the bush.

Ready? Foreign foreign kind of sounded like it.

No your turn.

It looks pretty cool.

Driving I, don't know, if you can really see through the trees, good looks good just got a bunch of dust in the eyes.

You did good.

You could go faster, again, Gotta, Go, full throttle.

That was that was expected.

It was pretty smooth the faster you go.

The smoother it gets yeah.

Do it again, I didn't get to see do it again.

I was busy driving do it again that little golf cart.

Go it's, not bad for no like shock, tuning or anything out of the box.

It's, pretty decent.

Yeah.

The small chatter is really rough.

But the big hits are good.

Yeah, that's.

Not bad that's like try to go this way.

The jeep was like we're running out of battery here.

Well, no we have.

None left they're all dead everything's dead.

Oh, no, he's getting mud on it.

So yeah, that's, uh, Andrew's.

New toy you'll see him in a lot of videos with us.

Now, not just the Jeep he's gonna be the main character in all the videos.

So, yeah, you can follow his, uh, his experience with it and maybe we'll do a one-year review on it see what he said to it.

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