We have a Kymco dealer in our small town who works on them and sells the parts. He is our only ATV dealer and seems to be selling quite a few locally. I have heard that Kymco is here to stay in the US and has a fairly decent reliable reputation as there dealers must be complete parts and service in a business location to be a dealer. Dargo, have you heard anything about this brand? Local service is very important. He ends up working on all brands and does a good job on all of his work from the customer I have talked to.
I have a 2008 Rhino 700 bought used with only 32 miles on it and it has been bullet proof with tracks or tires. It has about 1700 miles on it without any repairs except for normal service type maintenance.
Actually Kymco is a Taiwanese company that has been around for a long time. They literally provided most of the parts for Honda until Honda got big enough to have their own plant and Kymco split off from them in 1963. BMW currently uses Kymco engines in some of their enduro bikes. There is a
HUGE difference in Kymco vs the super el-cheapo Chinese brands like the one just mentioned. Kymco is actually a very well respected company with many name brand dealers carrying Kymco and proudly putting a Kymco sign right up with their Honda or Suzuki etc. sign out front. A Kymco will cost you about twice what you can buy a cheapo Chinese machine will.
The big difference is when a company like Kymco forges their own product line rather than a Chinese company that ignores copyrights and patents and makes extremely cheap "clones" of name brand products like the afore mentioned Hisun does with the Yamaha Rhino. I honestly take offense to that company because they intentionally try to market their product by lying and saying "It's
just like a Rhino" but half the cost.
NOT! That is exactly what I was talking about in the post here about a year ago where a neighbor thought he was getting the "same thing" as a Rhino only to find out he basically blew $6500 bucks on something that never ran right a single day and completely broke within a month with him never getting it fixed or anything from it's so called 'warranty'.
In my area a Kymco scooter or E-Ton scooter costs about twice what the cheapo Chinese junkers cost but rather than being disposable at around 1000 miles on them, they are just getting broken in. I've seen Kymco and E-Ton scooters at motorcycle dealers used with over 25k miles on them and still running fine. Again, those are two companies who promote their own product as what it is and do NOT "clone" (read; violate copyright laws) other products. Since I deal with auto, powersports and marine dealers all the time I get a bit offended at the Chinese junk that appears. Really, all they do is take money from people who can least afford to be ripped off. There may be others, but from personal experience working with dealers, warranty claims and actually seeing resale value, Kymco and E-Ton are the two 'not so well known' brands that stand out as being really well built and not just a pretender.
I just looked on eBay's
completed auctions (they tell the real story; what really sold and for how much) and only 1 Hisun has sold, BUT it had a different engine installed in it from a Polaris or something. There are dozens of Kymco's that have sold as well as E-Tons. Those two brands are almost accepted as 'name brands' in many parts of the country since they've been around so long and have great track records.
