Tag: US

The US Army will take 20 please. Team Polaris and its advanced MRZR X multi-mode vehicle platform have been selected by the U.S. Army to be one of the robotic systems used by infantry brigade combat teams for the next year of trials as part of the Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport (SMET) program. The MRZR […] More »

Better than new. The first company in the world to successfully electroplate onto aluminum substrates, WI’s own US Chrome has plated well over 1,000,000 cylinder bores since 1979. Perhaps even more amazing, the company has been in the plating industry since 1940! While their NiCom process is endorsed by performance racing icons such as Mercury […] More »

Not a motorcycle! Before becoming a scribe for Motorcyclist magazine, a Honda engineer by the name of Joe Minton became the first human to lay eyes upon the first Japanese ATV on American soil. Torrance California, specifically. The machine was the Honda US (ATC) 90 and the year was 1970. Bonus Fact: Early ATVs were […] More »

Civilians need not apply. The United States Marine Corps has ordered additional diesel MRZR (MRZR-D) Utility Task Vehicles (UTV) from Polaris Government and Defense to enhance Marine Corps operational capabilities. This follows the successful delivery and fielding of MRZR UTVs to Marine Corps infantry regiments earlier this year. Delivery of the more than 100 vehicles […] More »

Where it really all began. While off-road modified machines have been around since the advent of the combination of engine and wheel (think tractors), the generally regarded first commercially available ATV was called the Jiger and it was invented by a man named John Gower (Rempel) in the early 1960s. These machines initially used a […] More »

Can you name the first production ATV? Not so fast. The answer is more complicated than you’d think. Unlike the automotive industry, there is some debate about what really was the first production ATV. The general consensus is that the honor belongs to Honda’s US90 three-wheeler, which was exported to the United States back in […] More »

There’s a good chance if you’re an American ATV/ UTV enthusiast the name TOMCAR doesn’t hold a whole bunch of meaning for you. We have seen one pop up in classified ads every now and again but by and large, they are pretty few and far between in the US. Hopefully that won’t be the […] More »