OK I'VE BEEN ASKED THIS QUESTION ABOUT A 1000 TIMES IN THE LAST WEEK WHY DOES'NT POLARIS BUILD A RACING QUAD THEY ARE ONE OF THE BEST FASTEST SNOMOBILES ON THE PLANET VERY INVOLVED IN THE SNO RACING BUT ARE JUST LETTIN YAMAHA AND THE REST RUN IN THE RACING ARENA I JUST FIGURED THEY FOUND THEIR NICHE IN THE MARKET AND ARE HAPPY BUT I AM GETTIN SOME FLACK THAT IT'S CUZ THEY CAN'T COMPETE IN THE RACING AREA AND IN THE SPEED AREA BUT POLARIS HAS THE 800 STORM SNOMOBILE AND THAT THING CAN FLY WHY CAN'T THEY BRING THAT KINDA STUFF TO THE ATV MARKET I DONT KNOW THE ANSWER SO I THOUGHT I'D ASK YOU GUYS THANXS

 

Liability? (Lawyers) Can you imagine what some lawyer somewhere (the ambulance chasing kind, not the upstanding citizen type) could get for some dumb kid wrecking a quad going 90? They could argue that having the PVT made it too easy for someone unskilled to drive. Then again, they could go gearshift like everyone else & not have that problem. I, too wish they would, not that I would buy one, but just to not have to hear the same question. Whenever anyone asks me that question I just say because they don't have time to as they cant keep up with the 500 HO Sportsman orders yet. hehe
Farmr

 

An upstanding lawyer type citizen. You mean gore right ?

 

i have never seen or heard of an upstanding citizen type lawyer......

 

Actually, you may have hit the nail on the head with Gore. A high-performance machine would no doubt have to be a 2 cycle. What with all the environmentalist hoopla going around right now against the 2 cycle, it might be a bad move. I hear rumors that after 2002 there will be no more 400 engines in Polaris ATVs and what with 2 cycle snowmobiles getting banned from national parks...

It would be a bad move-business wise to intorduce a new machine that had a life of one or two years at most...
Now if they would just shave off some weight on what they already have, that might be the smarter move.