Does anyone have any knowledge of the Linhai brand. From my research they appear to be the only Chinese manufactured ATV with Japanese quality. They are in business with Yamaha apparently.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Cheers.

 

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here is an involved discussion. I only read a few of the posts but the one that caught my eye... no info from yamaha about the agreement?

Good luck

 

I'm not 100% sure but a lot of the Chinese off-brand quads claim to have engines like their Japanese conterparts. They are NOT as good as the Japanese mainstream brands. They are cheap ripoffs of the engines that the Japanese makers have perfected. I had one that claimed to have a Yamaha engine. It was a Chinese quad company called Yamoto. It was a horrible piece of garbage. Just my .02 worth.

 

Interesting. That forum sounds like someone heard the rumor but no one could either confirm or deny. You can check it out for yourself. Yamaha might not be saying a whole lot about it but if you check out Linhai Canada's website, you can read the whole story. Yamaha actually owns a percentage of their company and/or factory in China. Check out www.linhaicanada.com and click the "about us" tab. They are not saying the two products are the same. But they are definitely "in bed" together, so to speak. Sounds like Yamaha moved it operations to China.

 

I actually sold the Linhai for a while. They are a decent unit for the price. Of the ones sold I only had one come back and it was a ignition switch problem.