It's true EPS is very smooth and a nice feature but truth be told I drove my Rhino for 8-10 hours a day for years and never had or thought I needed EPS. Now if you drive the EPS version I'm sure you'll be ruined once you see what you're missing but if you buy the non EPS then you never know the difference.I never have, and probably won't do that much riding in a single day. I based my decision on the few rides I've done in my parents' Rhino. The only times in that I had whished I had power steering were the couple times I was at a dead stop and had to turn the wheel hard over. That goes along with what I've done in mine too. When I went in the factory demo ride, it was an EPS model and it seemed pretty twitchy at higher speeds.