World's Largest ATV Is Russian, $17k, and Unquestionably Dangerous

The specifications for the Sokol ATV are truly remarkable and more in line with a side-by-side than anything with handlebars. Sokol's four-wheeler is 114 inches long, 67 tall, and 79 wide. It weighs over 1,700 pounds in standard guise and comes equipped with a four-cylinder engine. An inline-four is also present in the Polaris RZR Pro R, and that powerplant is a 2.0-liter unit that makes an enormous 225 horsepower while the Sokol's is a 1.5 good for "only" 110, but like comparably-sided machines it has four-wheel-drive and an automatic gearbox.

Like other ATVs and UTVs out there, the Sokol can be outfitted with a wide array of options and extras, but they're a little different here. Your Sokol can be a pickup, pickup with roll cage, or "Trophy" which appears to be a trim geared more towards the hobby of ATV riding, which we expect in this case is a little different from what most consider to be the norm. Then again, wrangling the Sokol to its 53 MPH top speed might very well be a sport not unlike bull riding.

The base price is right around $17,500 and it'll easily cost double that with fees to have it imported and ready to use stateside, but replicating it would unquestionably be even more. Whether that's a good use of money or not... well, that's your call. If anybody remembers the " Dumb Ways to Die," the Sokol looks like it would fall right into that category. We can imagine it's an enjoyable time for a few minutes before the crippling fear of things going wrong takes over, which is hopefully long before 1,700 pounds of roll cage-free Sokol find a way to flip over.

We also want to bring up the Sherp, a comically oversized go-anywhere all-terrain amphibious vehicle that is as oddly proportioned and probably just as much fun to operate as the Sokol. The Sherp is Ukrainian, and the Sokol is notably Russian, so maybe arranging a day for those in power to spend time riding and driving these machines together could end the war. Or maybe not. Either way, testing these machines sure would be wild. Finding somewhere to store them, however...