JD gator xuv855d vs pick-up

[Orkneyboy]

Considering selling my 52 plate Nissan Navara pick-up and replacing it with a JD gator.
Reckon it could save me £100 a month between no tax, no mot, running on red diesel and by being more fuel efficient. It would also allow me to take a considerable shortcut between our two farms.
Pick-up is no use off road here for 6 months of the year as it is just too wet, but is occasionally handy for use as a second car. We have a good quad already too though.

Firstly, what are people's thoughts on JD gators?
Secondly, anybody on here ever changed from pick-up to utv and regretted it?
Thanks.

 

[tr250]

We have a gator and a Nissan pickup . But only use pickup as a self propelled cattle trailer really it's a big long useless lump really that makes a mess gets stuck etc. The gator is brilliant but they are expensive to buy and we wear them out far too quickly as dad uses it to do sheparding feeding etc which to be fair he has a lot of but he also uses it as a mobility scooter as he cant walk like he used to so for us it's worth its weight in gold as we would have to employ a man without it. It costs us roughly £4000 a year changed every 2 years and kept in warranty so no extra cost he does 1200+ hours a year