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00:00There's nearly 4 million square miles of America the Beautiful, and whether you are charging
00:12up a mountain or tearing through a forest, cutting across the water, or slicing through
00:17the air, there is a machine built to help you enjoy nearly every square inch of it.
00:23And it's not just fun and games, this is big business.
00:27From equipment and apparel to races and extreme experiences, Americans spend nearly 800 billion
00:33dollars each year on outdoor recreation.
00:37Today I am at the Yamaha plant in Noonan, Georgia, where right behind these walls, they manufacture
00:43every single Yamaha, a Wave Runner, ATV, or side-by-side vehicle sold in the world.
00:52Machines that amp up adrenaline, machines that enable escape, machines that are built
00:57for adventure.
00:58Go get an inside look at how these badass beasts are brought to life, and explore the wide world
01:05of adventure machines.
01:07In what ways are personal submarines changing the way we explore the ocean?
01:11How can a motorized backpack send you soaring 400 feet into the air?
01:16And what futuristic sport requires piloting a four-ton exoskeleton?
01:22Grab your helmet, strap in, and throttle up, because today is going to be a lot of fun.
01:28This is Modern Marvel's Adventure Machine.
01:45The Yamaha campus behind me contains over 1.3 million square feet of state-of-the-art manufacturing
01:52technology.
01:55And sitting on 280 acres, it's bigger than Madison Square Garden and the Empire State
02:01Building combined.
02:04And by employing over 2,000 people, they have had a huge impact on the community.
02:09In fact, they even have their own Yamaha day.
02:12It's May 18th, in case you feel like celebrating.
02:16But Yamaha did not start with motor sports.
02:19They actually began with musical instruments.
02:21It's true.
02:22In 1889, the year that the Eiffel Tower was completed, founder Toroksu Yamaha actually
02:29began manufacturing reed organs after being hired to repair them.
02:34There's even an ode to this musical origin of the company hidden in plain sight.
02:39If you look at their logo, it's actually comprised of three interlocking tuning forks.
02:45In the 20th century, Yamaha discovered that their process for casting iron for piano frames
02:54was useful in the manufacturing of motorcycle engine cylinders.
02:58By 1955, the Yamaha Motor Company made their first motorcycle.
03:03A few years later, they entered their new bike in two of the biggest motorcycle competitions
03:09in Japan, and they won.
03:13And since then, they've designed their vehicles with maximum power, performance, and durability
03:17to take adventure to a whole new level.
03:21Now today, I'm going to meet with manufacturing engineering manager Brad Benton to get an inside,
03:27behind the scenes look at how these adventure machines come to life.
03:31And maybe, if I'm lucky, take one for a test drive.
03:35This beautiful, massive facility is dedicated to making machines that are about fun,
03:43and enjoying life, and adventuring.
03:45Yeah, I mean, our purpose for Yamaha is really to try to rev people's hearts.
03:48Get them really excited about being outdoors.
03:51Here in Noonan, Yamaha makes four primary products.
03:55Powerful ATVs, the iconic Wave Runner, sleek golf cars,
04:00and their newest creation, the R-Max 1000, also known as the Wolverine.
04:09The Wolverine is what's known as a side-by-side.
04:12It's a four-wheel, multi-passenger off-roading vehicle engineered for outdoor adventure.
04:18We'll get up close with the state-of-the-art machines and workers that breathe life into this beast.
04:24Can I please go out on a test track and something, anything?
04:28I think we can make that happen.
04:29Excellent.
04:30You can take the golf car and head up to the first manufacturing site.
04:33Which one can I take?
04:34Anyone you'd like.
04:36I'm going to go with orange.
04:37It was Frank Sinatra's favorite color.
04:38If it's good enough for all blue eyes, that'd be good for middle-aged brown eyes.
04:42So I'm going to try this one.
04:43Have at it.
04:44Oh, golf car away!
04:47Yamaha began producing golf cars in 1975.
04:55Today, 194 workers at Noonan put these machines together.
05:00The creation of modern golf cars began during World War II.
05:04Spurred by nationwide gas rationing during the war, a California inventor built a compact electric car
05:13for daily use.
05:14And by 1951, he began mass producing electric cars for use on a golf course.
05:21Today, tricked-out, cutting-edge models are a cottage industry with explosive power and custom styles.
05:28The longest golf cart in the world comes out of our state of Georgia.
05:32Mike's Golf Carts makes a 31-foot golf cart. It has 49-inch wheels.
05:38And golf cars have gone beyond the lengths.
05:41Plumquick Motors in South Carolina regularly competes in golf car drag racing events.
05:48The company enhances standard golf car engines, creating models that can go toe-to-toe with full-blown
05:55race cars. They set the world record for the fastest golf car in the world, clocking in at over 118 miles per hour.
06:05This is plant one. So in this facility, this is where we'll actually build the ATVs,
06:09golf cars, and wave runners. Every 60 seconds, an ATV or a golf car rolls off the line.
06:15How long does it take for the side-by-side?
06:17Just over two minutes.
06:18Gotcha.
06:19Due to the size, the complexity, the number of parts, for the new RMAX 1000,
06:24we'll produce everything to that unit here in plant two.
06:27The RMAX 1000, codenamed Wolverine, gets built in its own factory.
06:33And the process starts right here. Inside plant two at Yamaha, an intricate assembly line builds
06:41the Wolverine inside out, piece by piece. It begins on the weld line.
06:48Where workers build the vehicle's frame and send it right here.
06:52So we are at the beginning of the assembly line.
06:56The engine is one of the first components that gets added into the Wolverine's frame.
07:14Mike uses a hydraulic lift assist to swing the 375-pound engine into place as easy as if it were
07:24a paperweight. The frame moves along a mechanized track to 180 individual stations. There are more
07:33than 200 different workers on the floor here, and the Wolverine is assembled out of a whopping 2100 parts.
07:44It's kind of amazing. It's like the NASCAR pit crew of assembly.
07:49How often do these cycle through?
07:50We're normally under three minutes of cycle.
07:53Really? So three minutes start to finish? Crazy.
07:57The staggering efficiency of this assembly line has historic roots.
08:02The modern automotive assembly line began with the Ford Motor Company.
08:08We all know that Ford's concept was a moving production line where a car could be assembled
08:13one part at a time. But believe it or not, the inspiration for this idea came from Ford's observation
08:19of slaughterhouses. Ford went into these slaughterhouses and witnessed how these animals were dismembered.
08:28And he basically developed the Ford assembly line based on this disassembly of animals.
08:35Today, the technology, speed, and most of all size of these operations have grown.
08:43While the industry has scaled up, the core concept of an assembly line remains the same,
08:49including at Yamaha's massive operation.
08:53Adam, this is Anna.
08:54Hi.
08:54Anna, how do you do?
08:55I'm pretty good. How are you?
08:56She's going to walk you through our quality verification process.
08:59Is that where we are now?
09:00Yeah.
09:00So what's happening at this station, Anna?
09:02I'm just going through and checking like all the bolts and making sure that everything's good and
09:06connected. There's a little over a hundred things that I'm having to look at.
09:10How many minutes do you have to check a hundred different things?
09:13Two minutes and 42 seconds.
09:15But that's just the rough estimate, right?
09:16Anna, you are a certified badass.
09:21Before we see the next step of the Wolverine process,
09:24it's time to see the assembly line of another classic Yamaha adventure machine.
09:30This is our water vehicle assembly line.
09:33Every water vehicle, every Wave Runner that we produce for the whole world comes off of this assembly line.
09:39Wow.
09:39The Yamaha Wave Runner.
09:43Every 1.8 minutes, a fresh one comes off this massive assembly line ready to hit the water.
09:50This is just incredible.
09:51Americans spend nearly 140 billion dollars on water sports annually.
10:00More than they do on hunting, fishing, and motorcycling combined.
10:05Over 82,000 personal water crafts were sold in the U.S. just last year.
10:10An 8% jump from the year before.
10:12And among them is Yamaha's signature water vehicle, the Wave Runner.
10:19I have one thing I have to say.
10:21We're talking about Wave Runner.
10:23If bears noting, Wave Runner is the proprietary name of Yamaha.
10:27Like, that's a Yamaha brand name.
10:28That's correct.
10:29Yet, other personal water adventure craft that looks similar
10:35are also getting generically called Wave Runner, like Kleenex or Band-Aid.
10:40People just call them Wave Runners.
10:42That's right.
10:43We have 165 operators that work on this assembly line that are dedicated to this product.
10:49You can't tell because I have a mask, but my jaw is hanging open right now.
10:57Wow.
11:00This is just insane.
11:03An actual pool of some kind.
11:06So each one of the different Wave Runners at the end of the assembly process
11:10will go through a dunk test so that we can verify that no water can come between the bonding line
11:16of our deck and hull.
11:18These robotic arms are pressing on the vessel at various points to submerge it.
11:24This is how the team will learn whether or not the Wave Runner has sprung a leak.
11:29It's a critical test because this machine is meant to stay at the surface of the water.
11:34Of course, there are aquatic adventure machines that offer a different kind of ride.
11:41And to check these out, we're diving deep with another company.
11:46The 3,303 from Triton.
11:50At a time when governments spend up to $128 million on nuclear submarines,
11:57Triton has created a sub for personal use.
12:00I'm a scuba diver, and you usually scuba dive around 60 to 80 feet.
12:05And, you know, a tank lasts about 60 minutes max.
12:08But in this submersible, you get to go down over 3,000 feet deep
12:14and stay down there for up to 12 hours.
12:17The sub has multiple thrusters, allowing its pilot the ability to control and maneuver smoothly,
12:25whether they're hovering above the ocean floor or getting up close to a reef.
12:31Whatever your chosen adventure, the transparent acrylic dome around the hull of the vessel
12:36refracts light in a way that gives passengers the illusion
12:40that there's no barrier between them and the surrounding environment.
12:44Between Yamaha's Wave Runner and Triton's Submersible,
12:50we've seen machines that can conquer the sea.
12:53But there's yet another company making machines meant for the skies.
13:00The U.S. has over 167,000 recreational and private aircrafts,
13:06enjoying over 5 million square miles of domestic airspace.
13:10But what if you don't have the resources to get your own airplane?
13:15You could skydive and count yourself among one of the more than 3 million jumps
13:21that take place every year.
13:23Or join one of the estimated 1.5 million people in the world who kiteboard.
13:33But now there is another machine that can get you up in the air.
13:38Black Hawk Motors designs and manufactures paramotoring equipment.
13:46Anybody can use our paramotors.
13:48The FAA do not require you to have a license or be a certified pilot.
13:53You can go from a couch potato to an adrenaline junkie overnight.
13:57Black Hawk constructs state-of-the-art gliders out of a fabric wing attached to a back-mounted
14:05motorized propeller that work together to send a pilot soaring into the air.
14:10In addition to the manufacturing and the development of the equipment, we also train.
14:16Last year, we trained approximately 204 pilots just here at the Black Hawk Ranch.
14:21Trainees here have multiple options to get off the ground.
14:25You can strap on an engine and run towards flight.
14:28Or you can use vehicles that are literally driven into the air.
14:33Our best-selling unit right now is the Lowboy 3 Quad with the Aero 1000 four-stroke engine.
14:39Cruises at around 25 to 30 miles an hour.
14:43It uses approximately one gallon of fuel per hour, so you can go close to five hours with that.
14:50And today, we'll see the Lowboy 3 Quad in the air as a fresh batch of
14:55trainees prepare for their first flight, starting with one who's taking off on foot.
15:00As a child growing up, you have dreams of flying, and so it's pretty cool to make it a reality.
15:07You ready for this?
15:08Mm-hmm.
15:08Training instructor Mike Gambrell goes through a pre-flight sequence with rookie
15:13pilot Jesse Sparks to make sure he's strapped securely into the machine.
15:18Okay, radio check.
15:20All good?
15:20All good.
15:21Okay.
15:21Okay.
15:22Mike will be in radio contact with Jesse for the entire flight.
15:26Today, Jesse will reach heights of up to 400 feet.
15:32All right, remember, we just want to concentrate on that good taxi, right?
15:35Yeah.
15:36And then we run into the air with a big grin on our face.
15:40Okay?
15:41With the all clear from Mike, it's time to take off.
15:49Okay, and whenever you're ready, use the motor to bring the glider up.
15:56A little more speed, a little more speed.
15:59There we go, and let's roll on the power.
16:03Run into the air, run into the air.
16:05Okay.
16:10As awe-inspiring as it is to watch, the process of controlling the flight is surprisingly easy.
16:16The hands control the glider.
16:18So if we want the glider to go left, we simply add a little bit of left brake.
16:22If we want to go right, we simply add a little bit of right brake.
16:26The throttle is merely for altitude, and if we want to go up, we're adding power,
16:30and if we want to come down, we're reducing power.
16:33These simple gestures create endless opportunities for aerial adventure.
16:37With a paramotor is really unique to any other type of aviation.
16:42There's nothing in front of you.
16:44Nothing but the breeze.
16:45that in itself sets it apart you truly feel like tom cruise and top gun
16:53while the drone camera filming our flyers today is up about 200 feet in the air the legal limit
17:03for powered paragliders is 18 000 feet hold that heading right there is looking really nice
17:11after about 15 minutes of flying a simple pattern above the field jesse uses the throttle to lower
17:21power to the engine which reduces his altitude how was it all right good job
17:30outdoor recreation accounts for an insane 2.1 percent of the american gdp making it bigger than
17:45mining and agriculture over 80 percent of this includes both conventional activities like hiking
17:53off-roading water sports and businesses supporting these types of activities yamaha is one of those
18:03businesses the workers here use cutting-edge tech to create marvels like their wolverine workers like
18:12Lazarus let me show you what we got please all right let's do it Lazarus operates this state-of-the-art
18:18injection molding system that makes custom plastic parts for nearly every vehicle produced here and
18:25right now it's cooking up wolverine's grill this machine has got a every cycle time of 78 seconds
18:34every 78 seconds every 78 seconds when there's more cracks open it falls out apart this is just insane
18:41the molding process kicks off with a heating chamber containing liquid plastic that's kept at
18:48a searing 400 degrees this chamber is connected to a machine for different molds when for example a
18:57wolverine's grill mold is inserted into the machine the hot plastic gets shunted through the molds injection
19:05ports as this happened water is constantly churning through the system to cool down the plastics as it
19:13settles into the mold and takes shape it just boggles the mold because you look at a thing like this and you
19:21see this is like a nasa control system so much engineering so much technology to make just the grill for the rov
19:28right this is amazing that's right cutting-edge tech is doing wonders not just here at yamaha
19:36there's another company that's breaking new ground in the world of adventure machines by creating a
19:42futuristic technological wonder this machine here is prosthesis the world's first purpose-built sports
19:51mech it is a four-legged human piloted all-electric powered exosuit exo bionics founder Jonathan
20:01Tippett envisioned prosthesis as the first in a class of massive exoskeletons that could compete
20:08against one another in racing and obstacle course events these vehicles can't function without a person
20:15piloting it from inside its massive body which weighs over four tons we'd made a machine so huge it had to
20:23have a ladder built into it to get in you drop in through here and it's a tight squeeze on your way
20:29through but once you get into position you kind of expand into this body-shaped interface and it
20:35engages your body in a number of locations there's clamps on your legs and then you clip in your feet
20:41and there's clamps on your forearms and then you grip the grips so at this point I can't move at all
20:49I'm locked into the machine until the machine is powered up I can't move anything with just a flip
20:56of a switch the pilot and mech become one when this behemoth is turned on two lithium-ion battery packs
21:14send power to two motors the motors activate hydraulic cylinders that pump to move the legs
21:21but how and where the four legs move is entirely up to the pilot each joint on the mech's legs is
21:32controlled by a corresponding joint on the pilot's body through an exoskeletal interface which the
21:39pilot connects to at four points the feet the thighs the arms and the hands a pilot uses their arms to
21:48control the two outer legs of the neck while the two inner legs are controlled by the pilot's leg
21:54movement so you are basically learning how to be a quadruped there's a steep learning curve to
22:05readjusting your balance especially when you have a 4,000 kilogram body and a 200 horsepower heart
22:11at first it's really stiff and really hard really exhausting you're using muscles that you don't
22:20need to all the time but as you gain proficiency once you get accustomed to the machine it really
22:27floats it's unbelievable that such a giant machine can feel so light in your hands when you get dialed in
22:32the journey we're on right now is figuring out what makes a good neck pilot it's starting to
22:43become clear that like a large degree of body awareness good balance and we're finding that gymnasts
22:51free runners who do parkour we think maybe motocross riders would be pretty good kite boarders snowboarders
22:57the vision we have is for like a giant obstacle course like a stadium-sized parkour gym where pro
23:04athletes are leaping and jumping and pushing obstacles and lifting and dragging as much as
23:08we've been focused on the sports side of things the thing just keeps coming in handy I mean we were out in
23:13the desert shooting the machine and the truck that I was driving got stuck in the sand so I towed the
23:20whole truck and trailer out of the sand using the mech while research and development on prosthesis cost two
23:26million dollars the hope is to one day produce sports mechs that cost less than a hundred thousand
23:32dollars the inspiration for this project was a vision I have of myself in a giant agile powered
23:38mech suit bounding across a desert landscape faster than a person can run with the pumps whirring dialed into
23:46the machine that still drives me you know the sky's the limit like this is a new class of vehicle this
23:52will evolve for generations this is the inception of the mech era prosthesis is a vision for the future
24:02but here in the present I'm inching closer to a finished Wolverine once our grill pops out of the
24:11mold they head over to get checked by floor operator Jackie Dozier so tell me a little bit about what
24:16you're doing I saw the molding putting these to the grills what are you doing here well first I'm
24:22looking for my burn marks why what does the burn mark indicate like there's not enough water getting
24:27to it yeah wow so you have to do this with parts coming off every minute you change and they're warm
24:35is this one ready for the beam watch I'm doing my part Yamaha everybody does their part that's the
24:43modern marvelous way all right well thank you for letting me talk to you I know how busy you
24:48are I'll grab this final one for you we're gonna go see how Noonan and the great people of Yamaha are
24:54changing the adventure machine game adventure machines allow us to go places and do things that seem
25:02impossible things like this gravity industries is really interesting this inventor Richard Browning is
25:13also the founder of the company has created this jet suit that has handheld thrusters that lifts people
25:21off the ground I mean this is stuff of childhood dreams to be Peter Pan Iron Man you name it it's
25:27straight out of a movie or a TV show this machine has been flown up to 100 feet in the air and at a top
25:37recorded speed of 85 miles per hour it's the fastest jet suit in the world since its launch in 2017
25:46gravity has wowed the world doing over 100 live jet suit flights in 31 countries online videos of the
25:56suit and action got over 60 million views within a week of release and it's easy to see why this has
26:02grabbed the tension around the world this is a device that allows man to break the rules of gravity and
26:09experience something wild at Yamaha the machines may be earthbound but most of them are definitely off-road
26:19there are over 1.2 million ATV owners across the United States and while Yamaha's side-by-side the Wolverine is the
26:32latest in their slate of off-road wonders they also make these bad boys so this is our terrain vehicle
26:39assembly line we actually manufacture both golf cars and ATVs on this assembly line how many different varieties or
26:45permutations can there be if you're talking about golf cars and ATVs there's eight basic models but we
26:52have over 400 different variations that's awesome as of 2016 Yamaha has produced over 1 million of their
27:02ATVs a line that includes the world's top-selling sport ATV Yamaha Raptor are there professional
27:11sponsored teams attached that's a big part of our heritage is going back and sponsoring these
27:16motocross teams these competition teams and making sure that we've got some of the best performing
27:22machines in the market off-road motorcycle racing started in the early 20th century in the United
27:30Kingdom and the earliest races were called scrambles today motocross is a global off-road sport with
27:37multiple world championship tournaments and a growing fan base in 2019 it was estimated that
27:45motocross was worth 1.7 billion dollars in terms of the whole industry and the king of motocross races
27:54is here at the Erzberg rodeo in Austria it is in a iron ore mine it's one of the world's most dangerous
28:04endurance races hundreds of racers battle through 22 miles of treacherous terrain and the chances of
28:12making it all the way through are slim in 2015 only five of 500 racers made it to the end
28:26it's kind of amazing how this hollow frame that Mike was handling now really is looking like a vehicle here
28:34with the wolverine's engine transmission and wiring secured into the frame the team installs the steering
28:41column and steering wheel the wolverine moves down the track to the folks who will add the doors and
28:47body panels and interior elements like the seats and the dashboard then it's wheels up i'm going to
28:54introduce you to christian he's going to show you how we mount the wheels now first of all this is like
28:59one of those high powered guns in an alien movie is it just to handle the weight so you're not
29:07repeatedly lifting them make it a lot easier how much of these tires weigh individually these weigh about
29:1245 pounds now i have to ask because you're amazing with this manipulator yeah are you awesome at that
29:19crane game like at an amusement park that's like unfair once christian mounts all four wheels to the
29:26wolverine there's just one last step at the end of the line all right adam this is michelle hi michelle
29:33so tell me what we're going to do here we're going to test on the lights and the functions of the car
29:39michelle will test the wolverine lights the seat belt then drive onto a device called the dynamometer
29:47to make sure its wheels and engine are in proper working order so we don't test it out here we test it
29:53in that chamber in that chamber up there only the back part goes down the front stays for safety
29:58open i've done a lot so it was only a matter of time before i got the coveted role of test dummy
30:10okay once i get in here i let the garage down yeah and then what are you going to do in here
30:16i'm going to do all the functions i'm going to check my lights i have the mirror here
30:21so you make sure the lights are working in the back okay then i do a seat belt test
30:31you heard it oh i felt it michelle i felt it now we finna rev it up
30:41wow that was awesome that was a lot of adrenaline and we didn't even go anywhere
30:51tearing across the sky in a jet suit wearing a nearly 9 000 pound exoskeleton for sport
30:59and piloting your own personal submarine we've seen machines designed to turn the world into an
31:05amusement park but there's one place redefining what an adventure machine can be
31:11we are diggerland usa we are over 21 acres we have 40 attractions mostly construction themed vehicles
31:24and this is where kids and adults get to use them in a nice safe environment and have a great time
31:29that's right diggerland usa actually takes machines commonly found at construction sites and repurposes
31:37them as theme park rides but these aren't exactly tonka trucks
31:46and if you don't feel like controlling the action you can sit back and let one of these massive
31:56machines do all the work
31:59the spin dizzy which is a js 220 excavator with an eight-seat gondola spins you around in 360
32:09degree rotation gives you about one g force
32:13and it's got heavy duty machinery we also have diggerland xl
32:26that is where you operate the real deal machines you're talking about 40 and 60 000 pound excavators
32:39and dozers and wheel loaders so that is a lot of fun and one of our ride operators will teach you how
32:45to use that piece of equipment all right now turn yourself around so you can see where you're going
32:51line yourself up in the center of this car down there you go and hit another spot
33:06let's see if we can climb onto the car
33:11this is craziness did you see that look of pure joy on his face
33:16that was awesome well done that was good
33:21this is what you do this is what you do you test these amazing vehicles that we've had the privilege
33:44of seeing built right yeah we really focus on trying to evaluate the vehicle just like the
33:48customers with it seems like a completely different environment yet we are still within the 280
33:54acre campus of yamaha oh yeah in georgia we've just come straight out of the factory and onto the
33:59test track it'll feel like we are miles away but it's still within this sprawling campus
34:05what is the main purpose of this track of this environment where we are now well the great thing is
34:11we evaluate all over the united states so every part of this track actually simulates a portion of
34:16the real world that we're looking to duplicate so that we can evaluate it right here in georgia
34:20yamaha has transformed this track to simulate different environments including a sandy desert road
34:27a rugged forest trail and even a rock scramble i think that's kind of amazing i mean we're in noon
34:33georgia yet with the expertise of yamaha noon in georgia is going to turn into nevada montana south
34:40dakota florida exactly of course we've got a lot of georgia clay here which can be used in a lot of
34:45different ways you know for example trying to simulate those southwestern whoops that come from
34:49decomposed granite right whoops that's what we call big bumps all in a rhythmic row we've actually
34:56recreated whoops out here made out of georgia clay and it simulates the same amount of stress that we
35:01see in the southwest to whoops shall we let's do it let's do it oh yeah that's it looking good let's get
35:10it done you're a rock star thank you for this opportunity i am so psyched
35:16all right ready ready as i'm gonna be
35:22we've seen the wolverine go from free to fully assembled now i'm in the belly of this beast as it
35:30hits the road she steps out yeah we've got three different drive modes here okay trail sport and crawl
35:40the three modes control the throttle response of the wolverine adjusting it for the three types
35:46of environments we're about to take a spin on let's open it up a little bit all right
36:00so here's a sherwood forest oh my god so just right through the woods no way
36:18this is amazing hi tree oh this is the best oh my god
36:25this thing oh yeah whoa
36:29like it moves like it's just on a road yeah we really focus on having very precise steering
36:35we're starting off in trail mode which is yamaha's standard setting in the r max 1000.
36:41the throttle response as you would expect your cars to it's just a little more fun than your car
36:51all right we're going to go to sport we're going to head up into the sand section sport mode is where
36:56things get exhilarated the throttle response is tight giving you quicker access to full power
37:04which makes it extremely fun for wider trails and more open spaces
37:09you know sand was for what region sand is definitely the southwest
37:14a lot of decomposed granite there so we really simulate that you can see the sand right here
37:18no way the turning on this thing is absolutely bonkers here's our rock section for the last
37:29section on this loop we're going up we're gonna go to crawl mode oh man this is the stuff you see in
37:37commercials the wolverine's crawl mode loosens up the throttle response but adds full engine braking so that
37:47in extremely bumpy terrain you can maintain precise control think of it like going over a speed bump
37:54if you do it slowly it's a much smoother ride crawl mode allows you to feel your way over the terrain
38:02oh man no way this thing is this is like the surface of the moon we're driving on right now
38:10you have no idea how amazing this thing is
38:13this is unbelievable we've climbed the rocks and closed the off-road loop but there's one
38:21final test for the wolverine now we're about to do the splash test so what's the splash test
38:26splash test is a higher speed shallow water test this is about 100 millimeters deep about four inches
38:32okay well will water still come in the cab we are going to get a little bit wet the faster we go the
38:38more the water is going to come over the front but it's really not about splash for the driver and
38:42passenger it's actually this water intrusion for the whole vehicle i am excited it's a beautiful
38:47warm georgia day let's part the waves moses style all right here we go
38:52that was impressive this was amazing this i mean to see it being built to see the hard work is all
39:12well and good and i'm very impressed but there is nothing like being in this you do have the coolest
39:17job you guys truly take it to the next level when it comes to amping up the excitement and fun when
39:25you go out to conquer the great outdoors adventure machines come in different shapes and sizes and
39:32they allow us to have fun across an array of different environments they offer extraordinary
39:38experiences fortunately because of the incredibly hard work of a lot of people in places like this we can
39:45break away from it all go roaring into the wilderness in some of these amazing adventure vehicles
39:53you have to experience it for yourself and i and a new change of clothes see you next time
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