Following the incredible upgrade to the Gen5 platform for 2023, Ski-Doo again advances their deep snow platform to new heights once again for 2024. Ski-Doo is refining all of their Summit and Freeride models to make each one more distinctly unique. This in an effort to more effectively satisfy... Read more
Polaris has been wide open on the throttle for the past few years and they have really made a mark in terms of advancing technology and creating excitement. From their 2-stroke turbocharged BOOST models, first in deep snow RMK sleds for 2022 and then offered in Trail and Crossover... Read more
When you’re the market leader with 60% of the worldwide snowmobile sales you can justify heavy budgets for research and development and you can recover those investments quicker and easier. It’s simple economics. And for that reason we again see Ski-Doo relentless in their desire to forge ahead with... Read more
The Future of Arctic Cat Shines Brightly – We’ve just returned from riding several pre-production pilot build versions of the new Catalyst platform up at the Arctic Cat factory in Thief River Falls and wanted to give you a quick update and our first ride reactions to the latest... Read more
It was 5 PM on September 9th, a Friday night at Haydays. A small group of snowmobile journalists had been invited to a private showing of Arctic Cat’s long-awaited NEW platform before the official introduction to the public the next day at 2 PM. It had been a long... Read more
The Most Technologically Advanced Snowmobile – Ever Seeing how Ski-Doo first introduced their game-changing – no, make that industry changing – rider-forward REV platform for the 2003 model year, we fully expected to see Ski-Doo commemorate the 20th anniversary with something equally as new and different. You know, REV-olutionary,... Read more
Yamaha has waited until the third week of March to introduce their 2023 snowmobile line-up, which seems unusually late because Polaris will be closing their pre-order period only two days later. Why does this matter? Both Ski-Doo and Polaris have shown their new models several weeks ago. If a... Read more
After the recent period of restructuring at Arctic Cat, we believe we can now tell you with great certainty the company and the brand will not only survive, but rise up yet again as it has done in the past. This has been a slow process, slower than what... Read more
More Power with Added Refinement and Capability By Jerry Mathews – SnowTech Mountain The biggest news from the Ski-Doo camp for 2023 is the release of their new Deep Snow Gen 5 platform. This latest rendition features a narrow hood, belly pan side panel and tunnel design, two new... Read more
Polaris is not letting off the throttle for 2023, not in the slightest. Instead they are charging forward hard and fast with the introduction of several new models, two new engines and the expansion of their Patriot Boost engine to the trail and crossover segments. So where do we... Read more