They are in the process of buying Cat from Textron.   Recently Deeres social media pages have been advertising that they used to make snowmobiles, they also came out with a line of retro JD snowmobile appeal.  They are creating buzz and excitement around the nostalgia of the brand before announcing they are getting back into the sport by acquiring Cat

Edited February 9, 20241 yr by Boonbocker1

26 minutes ago, Not greg b said:

Keep the date of August 27th on the calander. It’s farm progress show in Iowa. It’s huge a show. If jd does something with cat they will probably have it there 

I can't imagine if Deere were to buy them, they'd relabel the sled line as Deere, but who knows.

I'd also expect something at Haydays before Farm Progress due to the nature of the business, unless they are relabeling them.

Edit: The Deere dealers in Redwood Falls, Montevideo, Glenwood, and Alexandria are all former Cat dealers.  I think Preston is still a BRP dealer, Little Falls maybe sold something at one time.  

Edited May 30, 20241 yr by racinfarmer

58 minutes ago, racinfarmer said:

I can't imagine if Deere were to buy them, they'd relabel the sled line as Deere, but who knows.

I'd also expect something at Haydays before Farm Progress due to the nature of the business, unless they are relabeling them.

Edit: The Deere dealers in Redwood Falls, Montevideo, Glenwood, and Alexandria are all former Cat dealers.  I think Preston is still a BRP dealer, Little Falls maybe sold something at one time.  

I couldn’t see Midwest ag or kibble giving a shit about having arctic cat. 

6 minutes ago, Not greg b said:

I couldn’t see Midwest ag or kibble giving a shit about having arctic cat. 

I don't think any of them have sold them since the Crossfire and Firecat days.  

30 minutes ago, racinfarmer said:

I don't think any of them have sold them since the Crossfire and Firecat days.  

Probably not. 

8 hours ago, racinfarmer said:

I can't imagine if Deere were to buy them, they'd relabel the sled line as Deere, but who knows.

I'd also expect something at Haydays before Farm Progress due to the nature of the business, unless they are relabeling them.

Edit: The Deere dealers in Redwood Falls, Montevideo, Glenwood, and Alexandria are all former Cat dealers.  I think Preston is still a BRP dealer, Little Falls maybe sold something at one time.  

I don't believe little falls ever sold sleds or atv. Aitkin was a cat and doo dealer until Midwest bought them.

At this point any company would do a better job than Textron. Hope it's true.

Of all the possible buyers, Deere would be my least favorite.

According to the Snowest FB page, they have also been digging into this rumor.

29 minutes ago, Premium said:

According to the Snowest FB page, they have also been digging into this rumor.

Their post is all just screenshots of us idiots talking about it though 😂

The apparel screenshots were interesting, although maybe they've always had some kind of apparel referencing their old sleds

1 hour ago, Palu49 said:

Their post is all just screenshots of us idiots talking about it though 😂

Yep, that's frickin awesome! 🤣

1 hour ago, Premium said:

The apparel screenshots were interesting, although maybe they've always had some kind of apparel referencing their old sleds

I've never seen them do that apparel before. 

They must be ready to do something Kloety just ran my card for parts from this last season and it’s only May 

Will they call it John cat or Cat deer?

32 minutes ago, Not greg b said:

Will they call it John cat or Cat deer?

Probably just gonna have to bring the el tigre and liquifire names back to have both brands

19 hours ago, Not greg b said:

Probably not. 

I know Midwest sold until the Crossfire and M days, I'm fairly certain Redwood Falls did too.  Not entirely sure about Montevideo.  End of the ZR days for sure, maybe into the Firecat days.

12 hours ago, Sled_Hed said:

I don't believe little falls ever sold sleds or atv. Aitkin was a cat and doo dealer until Midwest bought them.

I remember seeing a bunch of sled and atv stuff on an online auction they had a while back.  Maybe it came from another location though and was centralized in Little Falls.  

5 hours ago, Palu49 said:

Their post is all just screenshots of us idiots talking about it though 😂

Country Cat too!

18 minutes ago, racinfarmer said:

I know Midwest sold until the Crossfire and M days, I'm fairly certain Redwood Falls did too.  Not entirely sure about Montevideo.  End of the ZR days for sure, maybe into the Firecat days.

I remember seeing a bunch of sled and atv stuff on an online auction they had a while back.  Maybe it came from another location though and was centralized in Little Falls.  

Country Cat too!

I know a buddy bought an old tractor on one of their sales this spring in plainview. Interesting side note I heard from a guy this weekend that C&B bought the Polaris dealer in Spirit Lake.

Edited May 30, 20241 yr by Sled_Hed

1 hour ago, Palu49 said:

Probably just gonna have to bring the el tigre and liquifire names back to have both brands

The biggest decision will be what green to pick. JD green or cat green? 

@racinfarmer Kind of a weird thing for country cat to share… but this comment was on there corroborating the higher ups being there this week.

2 minutes ago, Palu49 said:

@racinfarmer Kind of a weird thing for country cat to share… but this comment was on there corroborating the higher ups being there this week.

I wonder if they will change their name to country deer?

So I got thinking today. JD isn’t purchasing arctic cat. They could possibly be looking into buying the entire textron off road division and cat comes with it. Why would they do this? Because there is something they want. What if you could have an electric power system that can run any piece of equipment fully electric and you have the luxury of picking between diesel gen pack, a gas gen pack, or batteries and the only difference between the systems is what is plugged into it for power? I bet John Deere would love to have that. Who has been doing that for about 20 years and the ag industry is just catching up to it? Textron Offroad that’s who. 

It surely isn't for liqueeeeefireass

On 5/31/2024 at 10:31 PM, Deephaven said:

It surely isn't for liqueeeeefireass

Purchasing arctic cat would be like getting into the pwc market in the late 90s. Honda proved that was not a good idea 

6 hours ago, Not greg b said:

Purchasing arctic cat would be like getting into the pwc market in the late 90s. Honda proved that was not a good idea 

Well Honda (somehow) made absolute shit piles for jet skis. Speaking of jet skis I think they’re useless but I want an all red Daytona 1000 bad

13 hours ago, Palu49 said:

Well Honda (somehow) made absolute shit piles for jet skis. Speaking of jet skis I think they’re useless but I want an all red Daytona 1000 bad

They are worst thing in the world to work on them. I hate them 

21 hours ago, Not greg b said:

They are worst thing in the world to work on them. I hate them 

First wrenching I ever got paid for was on those things..  Starters/bendixes/carbs part time in the summer.  I needed beer money, no one else was willing to work on them