I was at some local snowmobile grass drags this past weekend. Several dealers were there from my area. I started talking to one guy who drives a tractor trailer and delivers Polaris snowmobiles and ATV's to several of the local Polaris dealers. I've known this guy for a long time and he's been driving truck for a while. He said several weeks ago he was at the Polaris factory picking up a few four wheelers. As usual there were several employees hanging around and told him what to load on his truck. They also made a special request to him to not enter a certain part of the warehouse. After he loaded his truck and the employees were gone, he went to the certain area of the warehouse where the employees told him not to enter. There was several unmarked crates sitting on the floor. He Pulled out a few staples and pulled off part of the plastic on one of the crates and inside the crate was a Sportsman with a four stroke two cylinder motor! I've known this guy for a while and I don't think he would lie about something like this. Now I'm beginning to wonder if all these rumors of the Sportsman 700 I've been hearing are true?!?

Mitch
00 Xplorer 400

 

Your story kinda sound like a suspence movie! LOL


I hope you are right! Your friend is pretty ambitious to go and snoop in crates at Polaris Industries. Again, I hope your right!

Brian

 

How could he tell just by looking at them that it was a 700cc 2cylinder?

 

He never said what size it was. Anyone who knows enough about motors can tell the difference between a two stroke motor and a four stroke motor and a single cylinder and a two cylinder motor just by looking at them. Next time you're at your dealer take a look at a Sportsman 500 and a Xplorer 400. You'll see several noticeable visible differences between the two motors.

 

Polaris quit using staples and wood in their crates almost a year ago, they use reusable shiping containers made of steel and shrink wraped with plastic. His story by that dosn't hold water.

 

My sister's brother-in-law's uncle's neighbor's mailman knows somebody who is somebody at Polaris. Well, he let me ride a prototype SP700 and it is awesome. I'm first on the list to get one when they go into production. Ok, obviously all that is a bunch of crap. It's just cracking me up reading all this stuff about the 700. I'll believe it when I see it.

 

It's funny how we are all so "sceptical"(is that how you spell it?)

One would think that we were Honda riders!

 

Of course you can tell the difference between a two clyinder and a one. two has two big clyinders one only has one

 

This big twin thing is like something from the X-files. The season finale. Time will tell

 

Sometimes when something sounds too good to be true, it ain't true. But sometimes it is!

I want to believe it, but I'm skeptical at the same time. Maybe it will be a 700, maybe a 650, maybe a 675. We won't know for sure until it hits the showroom floor. Meanwhile, I can wait. The new 500 HO is a great quad, but not if there is a 700 in the near future. If the 700 was on my dealer's showroom floor tomorrow, I'd be there with checkbook in hand. No, better make that a credit application! Otherwise, I'll probably keep riding my '98 for another year and waiting...