NoBrakes!
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Remember when they made Textron quads for one season? Lol
Textron To Indefinitely Pause Production at Arctic Cat in Thief River Falls & St. Cloud
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Cableguy
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I got a xtra 20 bucks
snopro
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Agreed Ryan. No one is buying a CF Moto green sled but they will buy an Arctic Cat.
That’s the truth. I really think can cat could be turned around. They have a good platform. I think the company needs to be restructured. Some fat trimmed, and a little bit of engineering and r&d put in. But I really think they could have good market share if handled well.
drew562
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I have two buddies with the sport cf moto. Thousands of kilometres never broke a thing. I even got a picture of a CF Moto towing brother‘s razor turbo lol
greenthumb
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I have no idea what they'll do, hence it was a question rather than statement.
I think you're all fooling yourselves though if you think a move like that is beyond consideration of a large corporate entity. That's exactly what Yamaha did when they started slapping their sticker and reputation on the side of a Cat. It must have been a tough pill to swallow for them too. What makes you think a Chinese company would care? Cat's current market share is likely a good indicator of how little weight their legacy carries nowadays anyway.
I think you're all fooling yourselves though if you think a move like that is beyond consideration of a large corporate entity. That's exactly what Yamaha did when they started slapping their sticker and reputation on the side of a Cat. It must have been a tough pill to swallow for them too. What makes you think a Chinese company would care? Cat's current market share is likely a good indicator of how little weight their legacy carries nowadays anyway.
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RyanM
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A factory turbo 858 Catalyst, some quality control, a twin rail option and that market share would skyrocket overnight.
FanaticalKilla
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1-2 grand underneath a Boost or a Turbo R. All day long.
greenthumb
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Just that simple. Yet here we are with Cat circling the drain. With a $13B company backing them you would think they could have pulled that off. Or just maybe they didn't see the ROI.
This isn't about what Cat was or what they could have been, it about what they are now. It's a failed side project of a massive conglomerate that has decided to pull the plug.
It would be great if some passionate people were to scoop it up and revive the brand to its once former glory, but with today's snowmobile market and economic climate I think that would be highly unlikely.
LUCKY 7
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and the so so winters that we being having for the past few years
mikermz250
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Maybe CF Moto has no plans to do anything with the sled line up. They could entirely drop the snow products and use the infrastructure to help push their current offerings.
Although With them becoming a title sponsor of snow cross I feel they may be looking to get into sleds .
Although With them becoming a title sponsor of snow cross I feel they may be looking to get into sleds .
tmo1620
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gedakbx
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They had a new sport side by side that was supposed to be released this year that they pushed out to next year maybe this is why.
MK4TDI
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Faaaack, he must really love Cat, hope the sled is working good for him for that kinda cash.
Well, he has $6000 in extras in it, so must be turbo or carbon fibre.....
He was rocking a nice pair of cowboy boots with his Klim under wear so who knows what he spent on extras…
tmo1620
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And a loud can of course for lightweight performance lol
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