Polaris CEO Claims Victory

Minneapolis, Oct., 26, 2006 – After granting a last chance extension to his original challenge of a live, head-to-head competition to settle who really has the toughest ATVs, Polaris CEO Tom Tiller today claimed an uncontested victory.

“After granting an extension and issuing several requests to participate, the other manufacturers’ CEOs have either declined or not responded at all,” said Tiller. “Regardless of the reason, I’m disappointed the other CEOs would not accept my challenge. Their unwillingness to participate proves only one company makes the world’s toughest ATVs…and that company is Polaris.”

Tiller issued his challenge on October 9 via a letter to the CEOs of Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, Kawasaki, BRP and Arctic Cat. After not getting any of the manufacturers to accept by the October 20 deadline, Tiller extended the invitation to October 24 and also sweetened the pot by offering a special prize for “The Duel’s” winner. The prize was a ,000 donation through Polaris’ T.R.A.I.L.S grant program to the non-profit ATV organization of the winner’s choice. Since none of the CEOs accepted Tiller’s challenge, Polaris will donate the ,000 to an organization to be named later.

“I wanted to give the CEOs every opportunity to respond,” said Tiller. “I apologize to all the riders out there who were looking forward to ‘The Duel.’ No rider wanted it more than I did.”

People can celebrate the Polaris victory by logging onto www.polarisduel.com to see Tiller’s victory speech, share their thoughts in the blog and challenge their friends to a duel.