If you want your next ATV or side-by-side built in America, you have more options than you might expect. Most big brands on dealer lots, including several foreign-owned manufacturers, assemble at least some of the machines they sell in North America at plants that are based here. What you won’t find is one that’s truly made in the USA. Engines and electronics come from overseas, and some brands with big American factories still build certain models in Mexico or Asia.
So, we dug through federal recall records and company financial filings to figure out who actually builds what here, down to the model line. Below are the 16 brands we found, what to check before you buy, and the popular brands that don’t build here at all.
American Powersports and Equipment Brands
Polaris
Polaris sells more off-road vehicles than anyone else in North America, and it builds a lot of them here. RANGER utility side-by-sides, including the electric RANGER XP Kinetic, come from its plant in Huntsville, Alabama, which opened in 2016. The original factory in Roseau builds snowmobiles and some off-road models, and a plant in Osceola, Wisconsin, makes engines. That’s pretty rare – few off-road brands build their own engines in the US.
Polaris’s biggest factory isn’t in the US, though. Its annual report lists a 3.2-million-square-foot complex in Monterrey, Mexico, more than twice the size of Huntsville. When we pulled Polaris’s recall records, the RZR sport side-by-sides and the GENERAL both came back as built in Mexico, while recent Sportsman ATV recalls pointed to the US. The kids’ models came from even farther away. The RZR 200 youth side-by-side was made in China, and the Phoenix 200 and other youth ATVs were made in Taiwan. Polaris says it has been moving production out of China because of tariffs. If you want a Polaris built here, stick with the RANGER and Sportsman.
Bobcat
South Korea’s Doosan Group owns Bobcat, and it runs its North American business out of West Fargo, North Dakota. It builds loaders and compact equipment at its own plants in four states, but Polaris makes its UV34 and UV34XL utility vehicles under a deal the two companies struck in 2009. A December 2024 recall grouped Bobcat UV34s with Polaris RANGER and Pro XD models and listed the US as where they were made. An earlier 2023 recall covering Bobcat, Gravely, and Polaris vehicles listed both the US and Mexico. The most recent record points to an American plant, but we couldn’t pin down which one.
Gravely
Gravely is owned by Ariens, which builds Gravely mowers in Brillion, Wisconsin. Its one utility vehicle, the Atlas JSV, is a Polaris. Gravely developed it with Polaris, launched it in 2014, and a 2023 recall named Polaris as the manufacturer, with production in the US and Mexico. Gravely doesn’t claim the Atlas is made in the USA. We’d think of it as a Polaris utility vehicle with different paint and a different dealer network.
John Deere
Every Gator comes out of John Deere’s Horicon Works in Horicon, Wisconsin. Deere says it’s the only place Gators are designed and built, and every Gator recall we found going back to 2004 lists the US. Deere has owned the factory since 1911 and added a dedicated Gator building there in 2017. (We dig into the rest of Deere’s American manufacturing in our John Deere investigation.)
Engines are a different question. Earlier XUV Gators used Yanmar diesels, Kawasaki gas engines, and in the XUV825i, a gas engine from Chinese automaker Chery, according to Equipment World. Deere doesn’t say where it builds today’s Gator engines, so ask your dealer about the model you’re looking at. Deere is also about to play a bigger role in this market. On October 6, 2026, Deere and Yamaha announced they’ll work together on future side-by-sides, with Deere handling vehicle development and US manufacturing. They haven’t said which models or where they’ll be built.
Arctic Cat
Arctic Cat builds its Alterra ATVs and Prowler side-by-sides in Thief River Falls and makes its own engines in St. Cloud, Minnesota. For a while, it looked like that might end. Textron, which bought Arctic Cat in 2017, shut down both Minnesota plants in early 2025. That April, a group of investors led by former Arctic Cat executive Brad Darling bought the company, and the Thief River Falls line started back up in August 2025, with a Wildcat XX side-by-side as the first machine off it.
Every Arctic Cat off-road recall we found from 2017 to 2024 lists the US, and in 2022 the company said all Alterra 600 EPS models are built in Thief River Falls. We don’t know where two new 2027 models are made: the Alterra 110 youth ATV and the budget-priced Prowler 500. Arctic Cat hasn’t said. Brands with big US plants often build their small youth models in Asia (Polaris does), so ask before you assume these two came from Minnesota.
Foreign-Owned Brands With US Plants
Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Suzuki don’t build a single motorcycle for the US market here (see our list of motorcycles made in the USA). Their ATVs and side-by-sides are a different story. All four build the machines they sell in the US in American plants, and so do Kubota and India’s Mahindra. Every one of these companies says its vehicles use a mix of US and imported parts, so think of them as American-assembled.
Honda
Honda builds every side-by-side it sells worldwide, the Pioneer and Talon lines, at its Timmonsville, South Carolina, plant, and it rolled the 500,000th one off the line in August 2025. Timmonsville used to build Honda’s ATVs too. If you’ve read that somewhere, it’s out of date. Honda started moving ATV production to Swepsonville, North Carolina, in 2023 and wrapped up the move in August 2024. That plant now builds the FourTrax and TRX ATVs for North America.
Honda says it makes its ATVs and side-by-sides in America, using domestic and globally sourced parts. That’s an honest way to put it, and the recall records back up the locations. Every Honda ATV and side-by-side recall we found from the past decade lists the US.
Yamaha
Yamaha’s plant in Newnan, Georgia, started taking over ATV production from Japan in 2011, beginning with the Grizzly 700. Today it builds most of Yamaha’s ATVs worldwide, including the Grizzly and Kodiak. Most, but not all. A 2022 recall of the 2021 and 2022 Kodiak 700 lists Japan as where those were made, so if a Georgia-built Yamaha matters to you, check the specific model.
What About Yamaha’s Side-by-Sides?
This is the biggest change in the category this year. On August 4, 2026, Yamaha said it would stop building side-by-sides at Newnan after the 2026 model year. The plant is shifting to ATVs, golf cars, and WaveRunners, affecting about 300 jobs. Yamaha plans to keep selling side-by-sides built by partner companies, and two months later it announced a deal with John Deere, with Deere handling US manufacturing. Neither company has named a product or a plant.
Here’s how we’d read it. A Wolverine, Viking, or RMAX from the 2026 model year or earlier most likely came from Newnan, though even that has an exception: a 2021 recall of the Wolverine RMAX4 1000 lists Japan. For 2027 and later, nobody knows yet where Yamaha will build its side-by-sides, and we wouldn’t assume Georgia.
Kawasaki
Kawasaki has built vehicles in Lincoln, Nebraska, since 1975, which made it the first Japanese vehicle maker with a factory in the US. Lincoln builds the Mule, Teryx, Teryx KRX, Teryx H2, and RIDGE side-by-sides, plus ATVs, and it does more than bolt parts together. Kawasaki cuts and welds the frames there, molds and paints the plastic body panels, and makes steel wheels before final assembly. The company says it builds its side-by-sides from domestic and imported parts, and its recent recalls, up through a June 2026 notice on the Teryx H2, name the Lincoln plant.
The smaller machines are another matter. When we searched Kawasaki’s recall history, the 2019 Mule PRO-MX, the Brute Force 300 ATV, and the KFX50 and KFX90 youth ATVs all turned up as made in Taiwan. The Brute Force 300 was built by Kwang Yang, the company behind Kymco. Kawasaki also builds engines in Maryville, Missouri, but it doesn’t say whether it builds side-by-side engines there or in Japan.
Suzuki
Suzuki doesn’t make side-by-sides, only ATVs, and it builds every one at its plant in Rome, Georgia. Suzuki started building ATVs there in 2002 and moved KingQuad engine assembly from Japan to Rome in 2014, putting it in a small group of brands that assemble engines here. A year later, Powersports Business reported that the engine parts were still shipping from Japan, with plans to buy more of them locally. The plant built its 500,000th ATV in June 2024.
Rome builds four models: the KingQuad 750AXi, 500AXi, 400ASi, and 400FSi. Suzuki describes them as “built in the USA of U.S. and imported parts,” which is about as plain as anyone in this category gets.
Kubota
Kubota, the Japanese tractor maker, builds its RTV utility vehicles in Gainesville, Georgia. It started making them there in 2003 and opened a dedicated utility vehicle plant a dozen years later. When the RTV-XG850 Sidekick launched in 2018, trade coverage reported that Kubota builds every RTV model, Sidekick included, in Gainesville, and Kubota’s 2025 RTV recall lists the US. The same Georgia operation builds Kubota’s L Series tractors in nearby Jefferson (they’re on our tractors list). Kubota keeps quiet about where it builds its RTV engines, and many of the Kubota tractors and engines sold here are still built in Japan.
Mahindra Roxor
The Roxor is about as simple as a side-by-side gets: a steel body on a steel frame, a Mahindra diesel, and a manual transmission. Mahindra, the Indian automaker, launched it in 2018 from a kit-assembly plant in Auburn Hills, Michigan. In 2024, it moved production to a former General Motors truck and bus plant in neighboring Pontiac, according to Automotive News, and Mahindra’s spec sheet lists the country of assembly for the 2026 Roxor HD as the USA.
How much of a Roxor is American is harder to answer. At launch, Ward’s reported that half the vehicle’s value came from India. Mahindra hasn’t published a newer number, so treat that 50% as a starting point rather than a current fact.
Smaller US Builders
These five are much smaller operations. Some weld their own frames, and one mostly assembles kits shipped from China. Three of them sell electric models, and none make battery cells here (more on that below).
Intimidator (Spartan)
Robert and Becky Foster started Intimidator in Batesville, Arkansas, in 2013. The Toro Company bought it in 2022 for $400 million, and the deal kept manufacturing in Batesville. In 2024, the company moved the UTVs under its Spartan mower brand, which is why you’ll now find Intimidator models like the FRX, GC1K, and Classic on the Spartan website.
Intimidator has said it builds with American steel that it laser cuts and welds in-house, and that its plastic is made in Arkansas. The engines aren’t American, at least on some models. In 2019, the company started using TGB 1000 engines from Taiwan in the GC1K. The current product pages list the Batesville address but don’t make a Made in USA claim. That language now shows up mostly in older blog posts. One fun detail from the recall records: Intimidator also built UTVs that Mahindra sold under its own name, so its 2022 and 2024 recalls cover both brands. Both list the US.
Landmaster
Landmaster just moved. For years it built UTVs from raw steel in Columbia City, Indiana, doing its own fabrication, welding, and powder coating. In October 2025, Whisper Carts, a golf cart maker in Johnson City, Tennessee, bought the company and moved production to its own plant. Landmaster now says its UTVs are “built from the ground up in Johnson City.”
The lineup includes the gas N6 and N7 and the electric AMP series, sold through more than 200 dealers. Landmaster calls its UTVs American-made but hasn’t published who builds the engines and drivetrain parts. Its homepage also still says manufacturing is “done 100% in Indiana,” so don’t be thrown by leftover references to Columbia City.
Vanderhall
Vanderhall is best known for the three-wheelers it builds in Provo, Utah, with GM engines. In 2021 it showed off the Brawley, an all-electric four-wheel-drive side-by-side with a separate motor at each wheel, a drivetrain Vanderhall developed itself. The top GTS version claims 404 horsepower, and every Brawley is assembled in Provo.
Getting one has taken patience. Vanderhall sold the Brawley only near Provo in 2024, opened regional sales for 2025, and started GTS deliveries in select markets in September 2025. An August 2026 recall of the Brawley GTS confirms the Provo plant. Where the battery cells and motors are made is still an open question. Vanderhall hasn’t said.
HuntVe
HuntVe builds electric and hybrid 4×4 utility vehicles for hunters in Fort Worth, Texas. At least, that’s what the company says. Its website calls the vehicles “hand crafted in Fort Worth, Texas from the ground up,” and a 2020 company press release says they’ve built them there since 2006. The lineup includes battery-electric models like the Terlingua and Electra, plus the Switchback, a hybrid with an onboard generator that recharges the batteries.
We went back and forth on including HuntVe. Every piece of evidence we found came from the company. We couldn’t find a news story about the factory, a factory tour, or a recall record confirming where these are built, and HuntVe doesn’t say where it makes its motors or batteries. We kept it on the list because the claim is specific and goes back years. If you’re seriously shopping one, ask the company about both.
Massimo
Massimo, based in Garland, Texas, sells UTVs, ATVs, golf carts, and pontoon boats, and it went public in 2024. Its Garland plant has manual and robotic assembly lines plus a test track, and the company labels its T-Boss, Buck, and Sentinel UTVs and MSA ATVs “Assembled in the USA.”
Massimo’s 2025 annual report spells out what that assembly involves, and you should read it before you buy one. Most of what Massimo buys is made by suppliers in China. About 85% of its 2025 purchases, by cost, came from three Chinese suppliers, and 52% from a single supplier in Jiangsu. Its engines come from Linhai Yamaha in China, and its diesel models use Kubota engines from Japan. The filing also describes vehicle kits shipped from Asia to warehouses in Georgia, New Jersey, and California, where Massimo puts them together. In other words, a Massimo is mostly built in China and finished in the US. That’s all the “Assembled in the USA” label promises, and it’s a long way from what Kawasaki does in Nebraska.
How to Find ATVs and UTVs Made in the USA
Our list covers every brand we could confirm, but plants change hands (Arctic Cat and Landmaster both did in the past two years), and new models show up every season. Here’s what we learned about checking a claim yourself.
What Does “Made in the USA” Mean?
To call something “Made in the USA,” the FTC says all or virtually all of it has to be made here, from raw materials to final assembly. Nobody checks before a company puts that on a product. Brands decide for themselves, and the FTC usually steps in only after someone complains. No ATV or UTV we researched comes close to that bar.
“Assembled in USA” is the claim that fits this category, and it has rules too. The main assembly has to happen here; it has to be real work, and the US has to be where the product last becomes something new (the FTC calls this “substantial transformation”). Bolting a few foreign parts together at the end usually doesn’t count. There’s no minimum for how much of the vehicle has to be American, though. That’s how Kawasaki cutting and welding frames in Nebraska and Massimo assembling kits from China can end up under the same label, and it’s why we spelled out the details for each brand. For the full rules, read our breakdown of how the FTC’s origin standards work.
What’s Inside a US-Assembled ATV or UTV
Even the most American machine on this list is full of imported parts. We looked at the major components to see which ones you can realistically expect to be domestic.
Engines
The engine is the most expensive part of a gas ATV or UTV, and we could only confirm three brands on our list that build engines here: Polaris in Osceola, Wisconsin, Arctic Cat in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and Suzuki in Rome, Georgia.
For everyone else, the engine is imported, or the company won’t say. Intimidator’s GC1K uses a Taiwanese engine. Massimo makes its engines in China and Japan. The Roxor runs a Mahindra diesel, and older Gators used Yanmar, Kawasaki, and Chery engines. Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Kubota don’t say where they make the engines in their American-built vehicles, and our research didn’t turn it up. If engine origin matters to you, ask about it first at the dealer.
Steel
Frames are the most American part of these vehicles. The US made 82.0 million metric tons of steel in 2025, third most in the world, according to worldsteel, so manufacturers can get domestic steel easily. Several brands on our list do their own frame work, including Kawasaki in Lincoln, Intimidator in Batesville, and Landmaster before its move to Tennessee. When a brand says its frame is welded from American steel, we’d believe it.
Tires and Rubber
Tires go the other way. The US imports all of its natural rubber, and 92% of the world’s supply comes from Southeast Asia, according to the USDA. Even a tire built in an American plant uses imported natural rubber, so assume the tires on any ATV or UTV contain foreign material.
Batteries and Electronics
Electric models hit the hardest wall. China made more than 80% of the world’s battery cells in 2025, according to the International Energy Agency. We didn’t find a single electric UTV on this list that says where its cells are made, including the Polaris RANGER XP Kinetic, the Vanderhall Brawley, Landmaster’s AMP series, and HuntVe’s lineup. For an electric side-by-side, “assembled in the USA” is as good as it gets right now.
Gas models have a smaller version of the same problem. Fuel injection and power steering run on computer chips, and Taiwan’s TSMC alone took nearly 70% of global chip foundry revenue in 2025, according to TrendForce data reported by Focus Taiwan.
Labeling
You’ll see a handful of origin terms while you shop, and they don’t all mean the same thing.
- “Made in USA” – All or virtually all of the product is made here. We didn’t find a single ATV or UTV that qualifies.
- “Assembled in USA” – The main assembly happened here, and it was substantial. Engines, electronics, and materials can come from anywhere. Most brands on our list fall here.
- “Made in America” and “American-made” – The FTC treats these the same as “Made in USA,” with the same all-or-virtually-all requirement.
- “Built in USA of U.S. and imported parts” – Suzuki’s wording, and Honda and Kawasaki use similar phrases. It means what it says: put together here, with some foreign parts.
- “Designed in the USA” – Designed here, almost certainly manufactured somewhere else.
- American flag graphics – No legal meaning. Any brand can put a flag on a fender.
- Country-of-origin markings – Federal law (Title 19, Section 1304 of the US Code) requires imported products to be marked with their country of origin. American-made products don’t have to say anything, so a missing label can tell you something, too.
Final Tips
Before you buy, we’d do the following:
- Look up the model, not the brand. Polaris builds RANGERs in Alabama and RZRs in Mexico. Most Yamaha ATVs are built in Georgia, but the 2021 and 2022 Kodiak 700 were built in Japan.
- Check the model year. A 2026 Yamaha Wolverine was built in Newnan. Nobody has said where a 2027 Yamaha side-by-side will be built.
- Be careful with small and youth models. They’re the most likely to be imported, even from brands with big US plants. Polaris’s youth models were made in China and Taiwan, Kawasaki’s smaller ATVs and the Mule PRO-MX were made in Taiwan, and Arctic Cat hasn’t said where its new Alterra 110 is built.
- Search the CPSC recall database. It was the most useful tool in our research. Recall notices on cpsc.gov name the country where the product was made, so if your model has ever been recalled, you can see where that model year was built.
- Ask the dealer two questions: “Where was this model assembled?” and “Where were the engine and transmission built?” A dealer who can answer both right away is a good sign.
- Check the brand’s website. Brands with real US plants tend to say so loudly. If you can’t find a manufacturing claim on the About page, product pages, or FAQ, assume the vehicle is imported.
ATV and UTV Brands Not Assembled in the USA
These popular brands build their ATVs and side-by-sides outside the US.
- Can-Am (BRP) – side-by-sides and ATVs built at BRP’s plants in Juárez, Mexico
- CFMOTO – built by Zhejiang CFMOTO Power in Zhejiang Province, China
- Segway Powersports – built by Segway Technology in China
- Hisun – built in China and Vietnam, according to its most recent recall; its McKinney, Texas, office handles US distribution
- Linhai – built by Jiangsu Linhai Power Machinery Group in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China
- Kymco – built in Taiwan
- Argo – amphibious XTVs built in New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada; Xplorer ATVs built in Taiwan
