Industry Served: Recreational Vehicles
MAE has developed custom testing for side-by-sides (SxS or SSV), also known as utility terrain vehicles (UTV) or recreational off-highway vehicles (ROV). Such vehicles have powertrains similar to those of ATVs (all-terrain vehicles) and have much of (although perhaps not all of) their rugged-terrain capability, but the term “all-terrain vehicle” is conventionally restricted to four-wheel, single-user vehicles, such that the ability of multiple users to sit next to each other lends a distinguishing name to side-by-sides.