Pat Mcardle: Hey, Pat Mardo and my good buddy Dave back for another episode of Shop Talk where today we're talking about the all new RZR Pro R and the monster display in the middle of the dash on this thing. Stay tuned for more.
Pat Mcardle: All right, so Dave, all new Pro R in the shop today. Give us the high level. What are we talking about here?
Dave Elia: Yeah, man. Well, you know, RZR Pro R is one of my favorite and our customers favorite platforms, right? It's an absolute animal out in the dunes in the desert. Four cylinder, 2 L motor kicking out 225 horsepower. 29 in of usable travel. This thing is a blast. And man, for 26, we made it even better.
Pat Mcardle: Now, Dave, I heard from the guys that there might have been some suspension tuning going on again this year. What What's cooking there?
Dave Elia: That's right. Well, if you can believe it, we made this thing ride even better. So, it's got a new triple rate spring setup, new shock calibration. Man, this thing's butter.
Pat Mcardle: All right. I'm I'm looking forward to getting out in the dunes with you and checking that out.
But is there anything else on the outside that we should be talking about before we jump on the inside of this rig?
Dave Elia: This thing's dripping in style. We threw a ton of red at it. Matching rocks, matching beadlocks. Man, this thing is hot. Uh you're going to be seeing in the dunes in this thing.
Pat Mcardle: Yeah, but this Indie red is not the only new colorway for 26, right? You got a few more up your sleeve.
Dave Elia: That's right. We got a few tricks up our sleeve. Yes, the red is hot, but we've got a white and black. We got an all blacked out model, but man, we didn't stop there. Limited supply. We got a model called Purple Thunder. You're going to love it.
Pat Mcardle: Lightning Purple Thunder.
Dave Elia: That's right.
Pat Mcardle: I'm looking forward to it, man. Well, hey, I think we better jump inside and show off this monster screen to everybody. All right, so Dave, the first.
Pat Mcardle: thing I noticed jumping in here is I got this new handle to be able to close the door. What What's Where'd you guys come up with this one?
Dave Elia: Yeah, so for 26, we added door handles. Definitely uh you know makes it a le a little easier getting in and out and is a nice place to uh hold on to as you're going for the ride.
Pat Mcardle: Nice. Now the other thing I see you know just looking out at this we got brand new color on the inside too not just the outside.
Dave Elia: That's right. We brought that theme in. You've got on the dash comes all the way through uh the center console. It's all in color so it's very durable. Uh it'll it'll stand up to the environment.
Pat Mcardle: Nice. Now I think we we got to focus on this screen but let's start out. We got some stuff below the screen here. There's some hard buttons. So tactile feel, right? Not everything's on the touch itself.
Dave Elia: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, obviously you got a ton of screen space there, right? But when you're riding, especially in rough terrain, it's great to have the hard buttons, right? So, we got gauge button. You've got controls you can access. We have a volume knob, so you can mute and adjust the music with a knob, so it's very easy because you know you're going to be blasting the music when you're going down the trail. You got a music function and a phone function, all with hard buttons right there. Easy to access.
Pat Mcardle: Nice. And the other thing I think that's been awesome for a few years, right, steering wheel controls, too. So you don't even have to take your hands off the wheel for a lot of this stuff.
Dave Elia: Yeah, exactly. We still have the industries only uh dynamics button which uh puts it at full lock, right? So we love that you can change the suspension settings. You got audio settings and then the players button which you can actually program what you want to do. So pretty cool controls right on the steering wheel and on the dash.
Pat Mcardle: Yeah. All right. Now size-wise, I mean this thing is like double the size of the old 7 in.
Dave Elia: Yes. I mean double it's got to be right.
Pat Mcardle: And you can actually get split screen now.
Dave Elia: Yeah. Let's say you want to check out music. You go to music and check this out. The map always stays on the top and then the music comes up on the bottom. You make take music off. You go to gauges. You still have the map and you've got the gauges. So you got visibility to the trail to your group ride. No matter what other functions you're playing around with, you always have uh the visibility of where you're going on the map. So imagine ripping down the trail with your wife. She can control the music. You still have the track on the map, right?
Pat Mcardle: No, this is fantastic. The other thing playing around with this a bit that was really pretty trick to me is just how fast and responsive the map is. I mean, you can drag around pinch to zoom and it's like it's right there.
Dave Elia: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, this thing is a powerhouse for a display. It's a much faster processor. It's got twice as much storage. Uh, this thing is very responsive, very fast, very bright. Uh, it's going to be a lot of fun to use this when you're out on the trail.
Pat Mcardle: All right. Now, I think the other thing we got to take people through is we introduced customization on some of the gauges a couple years back, but this one's got even more customization potential, right?
Dave Elia: Yeah, absolutely. In addition to the hard buttons that we already gave you, right, the bottom bar here, you can actually customize what basically apps you want access to, right? So, since you already have gauges, controls, music down here, I like to have map and then uh I like to click here and maybe go dynamics. Uh I like to have the camera on. So, you can actually have the rear camera on where you've got the map, right? Uh you might go in here and say, uh let's do a checkin. Uh maybe a group ride. Uh and then maybe uh maybe you do uh
Pat Mcardle: I like settings.
Dave Elia: Yeah, settings. That's a good one.
Pat Mcardle: Right.
Dave Elia: I think that's a good one. Yeah. And the cool part of this is right that you now see like those six things. Menu is always in the bottom right. And whatever the last thing you had up is always there, too. Right.
Pat Mcardle: Yep. Right back there. And then you're probably starting to notice already like again the map is adjusting. You want to take gauges down full map. You just you you can hit it again and close it or hit this X here. Right. So it's really configurable to the apps you want uh and which uh app you want uh to show in addition to the map.
Dave Elia: Yeah. And if you ever need to find the rest of them, that menu button is always there to pop those up and you can quickly select any of them.
Pat Mcardle: Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely.
Dave Elia: So map gauges, another thing you can configure, right? What's displayed in the bottom couple corners. So, let's say we don't want elevation, you know, maybe we want our fuel level so we always know where that is. Or, you know, engine temp, you know, I like seeing that while I'm riding. You can do the same thing on both sides. But, I think these are a couple of my favorites, right? Satellite imagery. If you got this thing connected with Wi-Fi like we do now, I'm actually connected to my phone's Wi-Fi hotspot, not even the shop Wi-Fi, but it loads lickety split, right? And land info. This is another cool one that you know if you're you know say in an area where you're not sure like who the land owner is you know sometimes trails go through some you know public some private areas um if you actually zoom in far enough you'll actually start to see like who the owners are of parcels of property um in this in these views and I guess maybe we'll go back to where we are here and zoom way in but you can see all these orange lines right these are residential areas you know this is everybody that owns these properties so you know So that same information you can see on your phone, you can actually pull up real time on here as well. So again, it's a crazy amount of good information. You know, whether you want that on or if you just want the more basic view, you know, you can choose what you want to do and you know, you got different ways, right? You can hit the plus minus, you can pinch like you're used to on a phone. Like this thing is full of configurability and information. And not only that, but like because it's so big while you're driving, when you glance down, it's a lot easier to see cuz some of these fonts are a lot bigger, right? when I'm thinking like vehicle speed, battery voltage, coolant temp, it's just it's just overall easier to see from the driver's seat.
Pat Mcardle: Yeah, absolutely. Very visible. It's right there. Uh I mean, and you know, the displays are a good size. The map is huge. I do. We have a tape measure in here. We got to get a tape measure out. So, I want to show you how much actually mapping you can see because if you think about when you do group ride, you can be in a group of multiple vehicles, the best thing to have is actually vertical distance on your map. So, uh, you know, while a lot of the industry has been going to these landscape displays, they're not very tall. This one, we went portrait, uh, uh, on purpose because you just have so much forward visibility onto the map.
Dave Elia: Nice. All right. Well, what other features are in here that would be good for people to know about? You know, I think there's a lot of stuff that's existed on the 7-in display that were kind of, I'll say, almost hidden features, right? things like the ability to pull up an image or, you know, how do you set up a group ride or even some of the new RIDE COMMAND Plus, you know, alert functionality, that's all built in already, right?
Pat Mcardle: Yeah, absolutely. Everything that we had on the the 7 in previously has been brought over. Again, a lot of that stuff has gone better. It's gone crisper, it's faster, it's more reliable. We still have group ride, we have messaging, you can send help alerts. Um, but then there's, you know, some of the features just got a major upgrade as well. So like the camera is a digital camera now. So it's a lot faster. It loads immediately. Uh the audio, it's also now digital. So the components are the same from last year. We still have four uh speakers, tweeters, and 10-in subwoofer, but is now powered by 1,500 watt. 1,500 watt digital amp. So the tune is better. We're getting more bass out of it. This thing absolutely rips.
Dave Elia: All right, we got to we got to try this out, man. We're going to music. We're going to turn something on,
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Pat Mcardle: man.
Dave Elia: They're And this thing, they're going to see you coming. They're going to hear you coming.
Pat Mcardle: Boy, the volume used to go to 11 and it is way more than 11.
Dave Elia: It's way more than 11. Yeah, that's right. That's right.
Pat Mcardle: All right. So, Dave, we covered off on a whole bunch of features on this new display, but there might be a couple more, right?
Dave Elia: Yeah. Let's dive in a little bit deeper. We went through the mapping. Uh we went through the gauges, but check it out. You go to controls here. Uh again, you can control this screen. You can change the brightness. You can set it to auto and you got day and night mode. Let me just show you how bright it is in day mode.
Pat Mcardle: Pretty sweet, right?
Pat Mcardle: No, this is one of my favorites right here.
Dave Elia: Yeah. Check it out. H
Pat Mcardle: And I didn't realize how warm it was in this room, but having those seat coolers.
Dave Elia: That's nice, right? That's nice.
Pat Mcardle: That is glorious.
Dave Elia: So again, the industries only heated and vented seats on this Pro R. all controlled from the screen there. Uh that just makes the ride that much more enjoyable, right?
Pat Mcardle: Yeah. No, I think the other thing we got to talk is just some of the configurability on the audio, right?
Dave Elia: Couple more details. You get into the music here again. Sweet. You're you can see what tracks you've got uh playing, what's coming up next. You click in here, you go into the settings again, you got control of fade, balance, equalizer. Uh you can play with your bass, treble, mid, where you like it there. Automatic volume control, low, medium, high. Okay. And that and that's really the faster you drive, the more it'll up or dip the volume for you, right?
Pat Mcardle: Exactly. Exactly. Yep. So, yeah, you got full control of uh of your music all straight from your uh from your music menu. And and again, you notice like when we controls to music, then this most recent tab uh updated. So, it was really easy to go right back and forth. And again, you just watch that map adjust to whether you have that app open or closed. Pretty cool, right?
Pat Mcardle: This is awesome. So, I think overall, you know, this has been phenomenal. You know, you were asking about a tape measure a little while ago, and it it just so happens with the magic of the studio here, we got one.
Dave Elia: You found one?
Pat Mcardle: Yeah, I absolutely found one. Let's check this out.
Pat Mcardle: So, maybe we'll start right at the end there. And we're I don't know, that's a bit over 8 in, right?
Dave Elia: Eight and almost eight and a half. Yeah.
Pat Mcardle: When you go sideways, you know, you're what? 6 and 1/4 or so.
Dave Elia: Six and a quarter. That's right. How about that map when it's on full size?
Pat Mcardle: So, you do have this bar here, but oops. Sorry. Nailing things here. That's almost 7 and 1/4. 7 and 1/2 maybe somewhere in there.
Dave Elia: Yeah. 7 and 1/2. So you got 7 and 1/2 of vertical mapping displayed.
Pat Mcardle: Darn near. Yeah. And you know almost 6 and 1/4 going the other way. So yeah. I mean the square area is it's monstrous.
Dave Elia: That's huge. That's huge. That's 7 and 12 of vertical mapping distance, right? Like so that's how far ahead you can see in the mapping. That is so cool. Uh I mean since you brought the tape measure man, I got a vehicle out back that we got to go measure and see how it sizes up.
Pat Mcardle: All right, let's go do it.
Dave Elia: Let's do it.
Pat Mcardle: All right, so Dave, we found a Maverick R sitting outside. So we come take a look at the competitive screen here.
Dave Elia: Yep. I got the tape measure. Let's uh let's check it out here. So height, we're looking at maybe a little over three and a half. Something
Pat Mcardle: three and a half. About three and a half.
Dave Elia: How about width?
Pat Mcardle: A little over 9 and 1/2.
Dave Elia: Nine and a half. Okay. So it's got some nice width, but we're talking 3 and 1/2 in on height. We were uh close to eight for mapping. So, uh, yeah, lot more lot more area on the RZR, for sure. Now, what do you think of the, uh, audio on this thing?
Pat Mcardle: Audio? There's no factory audio on this.
Dave Elia: Ah, okay. Well, let's go check out the mapping here quick. You got the BRB Go app on your phone.
Pat Mcardle: Uh, negative.
Dave Elia: Negative. Yeah, me neither. Let's go back inside, finish up on the RZR.
Pat Mcardle: All right.
Pat Mcardle: All right. So, Dave, we just spent a ton
Pat Mcardle: of time looking at the screen on this allnew Pro R. Checked out a competitive unit quick. What are the top few things we want people to remember about this model, your 26 lineup?
Dave Elia: Yeah, I mean, it's pretty easy. hot new colors, new suspension tune, huge new new display.
Pat Mcardle: And on that display, kind of top three to five things we want people to take away. Number one,
Dave Elia: it's big.
Pat Mcardle: Number two,
Dave Elia: it's fast.
Pat Mcardle: Number three,
Dave Elia: split screen, always on mapping.
Pat Mcardle: Number four,
Dave Elia: hard buttons and a volume knob.
Pat Mcardle: Overall, anything else?
Dave Elia: No. Bigger, faster, better.
Pat Mcardle: Bigger, better, faster. Right.
Dave Elia: Bigger, better, faster. You said it, man.
Pat Mcardle: Hey, that's it for this episode of Shop Talk. Make sure you guys like, comment, subscribe. Let us know what you want to see next time.
