Well I have more info from my friend at the Kawi plant. I read the other post from a couple of days ago. It sounds like Prairiewrench has pretty good inside info as well. This is what I have heard... The Praire 700 is done, finished, history. The Brute Force will be offered in a 650 form and a 750 form. He has seen both running down the assembly lines. The colors he saw for the 750 were dark green, red, and camo. There was also some ugly yellow color on a 650 as well. He called it ugly anyway. Also, he wasn't positive that the 750 was going to be fuel injected. He thought that was going to be saved for next year. I guess the overall appearance is pretty sweet. He said it looks much meaner than the current Prairies. I guess the Prairie name has just about had it...

 

Did he say if it is IRS or SRA?

 

I believe he said the 650 was straight axle and the 750 was IRS.

 

Actually, I was wondering whether Kawasaki would come out with the Prairie 750 and then reserve the 650 (or 700) motor for the ArticCat 650 (or AC700). Hmmm. Will be very interesting to see what happens. For what its worth, I honestly hope that Kaw. doesn't limit the SRA version to only 650ccs and then give IRS version the full 750ccs...that seems to be going backwards from the current P700 set-up.

Happy trails...[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Running down the assembly lines..........as in they're already in production?[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img]

 

So Kawasaki right now is building a 650, 700 and a soon to be 750 motor, all the same motor pretty much. I can see it being a headache for Kawi, may as well save some money. The only problem is Suzuki, will they go back to a 650 or maybe they are building the motor in their plant?

I think if Kawi goes back to the 650 they will bump up the power to the level of the 700, we know it can be done, its easy. So they will still smoke the competition with the 650 and just make everyone else look silly compared to the 750, lol. Going to be a good year.

 

i'll get the new 650 CDI when they are available [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Sounds to me the 700 that they got now might be a sought after item! JH

 

cartman308, how do you know it will hook up? Even if it did hook up why would Kawasaki change anything?

 

Yes they are starting production. I don't think they are really cranking them out yet. Maybe 10-20 a day right now. As far as Suzuki goes, I didn't think they were going to be sharing platforms anymore...