Art Vandelay

Good to know, but it doesn't look like they sell a needle nose version.

I'm fairly sure they don't have a marketing department anymore. The Arctic Insider guy is the only one who has any info anymore, and he doesn't work for them.

That's what I was trying to get at. They'll call it a success since they sold out, but it's really a business failure since textron couldn't provide the resources to get more parts to meet demand. I know doo and poo can't keep up either but their volumes are so much higher. Hope you are right about the new sled (as is everyone else)

Are you saying their preorder program was a success? I'm guessing they didn't move all that many sleds but I'm just a guy with a keyboard here.

But if we pay more taxes we can fix this.

That shows why there's zero reason for them to put out anything new for 2023. I'd say it's more their supply chain constraints than the success of their preorder program.

Haven't ridden it but notice how much heavier it is than the similar powered 4S Doo. Weight might be a factor for your wife.

At minimum you should have to be a landowner to vote, or maybe at least a taxpayer.

It is a national crisis. #1 co-morbidity with the china virus was obesity. If only they focused on food and activity instead of experimental shots we'd be way better off.

I'm doing more importing/exporting these days.

As wrong as they are they aren't stupid. I'd guess they have the resources in place already for where they'll need votes. I hope I'm wrong.

Ok with me but can we switch the sides? Let the left have the east side instead?

I'm not going to defend textron but it looks like he parted ways from textron a couple years ago. https://snowgoer.com/news/arctic-cat-to-argo-pipeline-raises-many-questions/30753/ From that article there's a glimmer of hope that something interesting is going on at argo. Before textron Cat had always had their critics and brand bashers but it's hard to deny they innovated and brought new things to the market and led it in different ways over the years. Hopefully that can get rekindled before it's too late,

That would be a great day.

Getting back to Cat - they achieved 100% market share for sales in the month of April, although they did up the 10% they usually get in March.

Industry-leading April ordering period almost done for Cat. Still about 40 versions of the mountain sleds available.

I think they were hoping to use cat dirt tech to get a fat govt contract out of it like Polaris and get on the government's tit, but when that didn't happen they went for tracker instead.

It makes sense that the next chassis would just get into the ballpark. This was the chassis that should have come out a few years ago. It's been rumored to be in development for so long, and so many of the engineers were sent packing since textron so graciously "saved" the brand, that it may be like the new 800 when it came out - a step up for Cat but late to the game and behind. But given who is calling the shots I'm not expecting too much. Good that there are now reports of people seeing this chassis and riding it instead of just rumors. Still no one is really talking - it's all I know someone who has seen it. Hope textron proves us all wrong.

IN IL WI MI MN WY QC ON Want to get back to QC and WY and also try Maine and Montana.

I think it's not publicly traded. Can't find any info on it. Still hoping the cat guys that ended up there want to something with sleds.

Pretty much everything on this thread is someone's assumption.

Do you just try to pick fights with everyone on here?

Just looked at the cat site. Although the 600s sold out very quickly it seems the 800s are not selling out. They must have had very low availability of 600s for some reason, or just guessed wrong - I assume this is all tied to what parts they ordered months ago and can't easily change that - i.e., order more 600 parts at this point. Strange too the 800s without atac are sold out but those with atac are still available. Since that's an option you'd think they wouldn't stop selling the 800s without atac as long as 800s are still available. I'd assume most who want to order a sled have ordered by now.

Definitely noticed that on cats - 600s and 800s in our group are all nearly the same on gas.

Or was fired by textron.