Just curious how those on a Moomba forum would compare a Moomba to an ATX. I’ve owned tiges and now a Supra and both were great. Any major pros/cons between Moomba and ATX? Asking for a friend.
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Just curious how those on a Moomba forum would compare a Moomba to an ATX. I’ve owned tiges and now a Supra and both were great. Any major pros/cons between Moomba and ATX? Asking for a friend.
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I looked at the 2021 ATX when I was about to but a boat. Went with the Moomba because the fit and finish is light years ahead of the ATX. The ATX really did seem cheap in comparison. I know it is supposed to be the less expensive version if a Malibu, but it's a little too cheap feeling compared to a Moomba. Let him look at both, and compare seat hinges, cup holders, radio, display screen, trim, solid feel of panels etc..
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This would be an Axis.Quote:
I know it is supposed to be the less expensive version if a Malibu
ATX is a Tige line.
I demoed the atx. Really liked it. Surfed far superior to my 21 mojo. Problem was that was all it did. I could not get a clean wake for my son to wakeboard on unless you were going 22mph plus. Great for surfing but not good for wakeboarding or wakeskating unless your doing that at 22mph +. Everyone on the Facebook atx forum and my dealer confirmed the same thing we experienced.
Ooop!! My bad! You are 100% correct and I know that!! My eyes were reading the letters but but my brain just wasn't paying attention!! [emoji854] and no, I did not look at an ATX when shopping.Quote:
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I shopped moomba and atx in 2020. I've owned supra a long time ago and 2 tiges. here's my take:
the atx will surf better out of the box with no added weight. not even a contest here until you add a grand in lead to the moomba and now its a closer match. edge in surfing still to atx but bigs is spot on with boarding comment. tige/atx are not known to be the best at boarding especially if you have youngsters that require a slower speed. if it's all adults, doubtful anyone is hitting the pro circuit anytime soon so the atx will satisfy most but moomba will do it better.
the atx/tige GO software/screen is one of the best out there right now and we found the software to be much better than the moomba offering. interior for us in 2020 it was moomba and was not even close. the atx felt cheap and part of the "miss" was no walkthru sundeck on the atx. that has been fixed for 2021 and I know that atx has upped the game on them so would be interesting for us to shop again.
we ended up picking the kaiyen over the 22atx after owning 2 tiges and it was pretty much all based on interior finishes as they will both surf/board decently for a bunch of amateurs but last minute found a STEAL on an r23 2000 miles away so we picked it up instead but had we not, we would have bought the kaiyen.
these are all my opinions however have seen others with the same line of thinking.
We were very close to buying an ATX20 a year ago (we came within about $2000 of making a deal with the dealer)- ended up with a Max for about the same price (so no brainer)..
We looked at both brands across the entire size range. We ended up with the Makai as the best balance in usability and performance. The 3 things in the ATX for '21 that I couldn't get over:
1) No hinges on the rear seats ... on the 24', these are very long and difficult to maneuver/place
2) The manual movement for the rear facing seat ... if you want to turn it around, you have to get everyone up off of the rear seats to lift the cushions, then move the seat, then place cushions back ... just impractical to do while out with a group of people
3) No underseat storage in the bow ... the bags fill up that space and we found that on the test drive, when you filled them all the way they would actually lift up the front cushions
I did love the GO system though.
The interior of the Moomba is way way ahead of the ATX in every way. As others have said the ATX feels very "budget boat" where the moomba doesn't at all.
Atx wave will be better.
I came from tige and had my mind made up on getting the ATX 22 until I actually climbed in one, immediate no at that point. Everything is cheap/flimsy and plastic.
Moomba in my opinion, makes hands down the nicest boat in it's class for the money. Everything is in the right place, well built and attractive inside for a little pride of ownership.If I was to shop for one again, I would order it with an upgraded trailer capable of carrying plenty of lead to have a good surf wave. Win-win.
When buying my Mondo in 2019 i also looked at Tige. My main concern was dealer support. Moomba had more than Tige where i live so that was huge. I also thought the moomba had a better interior layout and appeared to be far better in fit and finish. Another concern i had was someone on my lake had a new Tige and they guy hated it. I never got around to asking why but he dumped it after one year. Finally found out he had issues with quality.
don't forget your buying the dealer when you get a boat. In the end it came down to the dealer as i am sure i would have been happy either way, but the feeling i got from the dealership sold me. The only thing i don't like about the moomba lineup is you need to add a significant amount of weight to set up surf. more than the others.