Yes, yes , yes, yes, yes. I'm getting ready to buy polaris quad number 5. I won't own Jap junk under any circumstances. When my friends were riding Saturday one guy broke the frame on his Grizzly. It was related to hitting a tree and bending the tie-rod a couple of years ago. The frame broke where the A-arm is attached and was fixed, then broke again during normal riding without hitting anything. The frame keeps breaking. I hit a tree on a Sp 500 and bent a tie-rod and it didn't do anything to the frame at all. It's built like a tank and the Griz is built like papier-mâché.

 

I love it when people argue other brands. Polaris owns just over 20% same as Yamaha of the ATV market. Meaning 1 out of every 5 sold is a Polaris as is Yamaha. Honda is first with 29%.The top 3 are 69% of all ATV sales.

Last years marketshare
Can-am 3%
Arctic Cat 7%
Kawa 9%
Suzu 11%
Yamaha 20%
Polaris 20%
Honda 30%

 

Yep and did,

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: RandyL

I love it when people argue other brands. Polaris owns just over 20% same as Yamaha of the ATV market. Meaning 1 out of every 5 sold is a Polaris as is Yamaha. Honda is first with 29%.The top 3 are 69% of all ATV sales.



Last years marketshare

Can-am 3%

Arctic Cat 7%

Kawa 9%

Suzu 11%

Yamaha 20%

Polaris 20%

Honda 30%</end quote></div>

Is that for the whole world, North America, the US, or something else? I've heard several years in a row that Polaris was first and Honda was a close second and the rest weren't even close. I don't know if that was for the US only, or for the whole world. I don't have anything to back it up, but I hardly ever see any Hondas where I ride in Michigan. Polaris is maybe 45-50% and Yamaha 40-45% of what I see on the trails and every other brand, including Honda is only about 1%. I don't know why nearly half of the ATVs I see are Polaris and I almost never see Hondas, if Hondas are the #1, or even the #2 brand.

 

96 model or not its still a polaris and ive had it since 01 which means i got it when it was 5 years old.an 03 is know five years old.there is no excuse for this kind of breakage regardless of age.i realize most folks on this forum are biased towards polaris atvs but the title of this post is "be honest."i have no experiance with there newer models but i do know numerous people who do and from what i here there no differant than mine has been.junk.junk.junk.

 

ok that one was 5 years old you don't know how hard it was beated before you all of the bushingsw were prob shot ive seen 3 year old atvs with all of the bushings shot and it doesn't matter if you greese them all teh time if they are shot they were out everything else and then everything is bad and if you don't replace until they break than thats ur prob there are replacable bushings all over the atv that are replacable and you should do them regularly. its 100 dollars for every single front end bushing i need on ebay brand new and i am doing it before i sell it so pepople like you don't think that. i will admit i ride mine hard in snow rivers froxen lakes mud and rocks but i replace everything when i have the swingarm wobble i replace the bushings or axle bearings. i am honest and i am selling the scrambler to get a sportsman witch fits my riding trails better.

 

I now own 6 polaris atv's.I don't think the wife will let me buy another,but if I did it would only be a polaris.

 

Ive owned 8 Polaris ATV's and 7 Polaris Snowmobiles since 1990 and wouldnt EVER buy anything different!!!!

 

Sales figures were found on this site.

http://www.highlifter.com/foru...mpage_1/tm.htm#2606841

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: RandyL

Sales figures were found on this site.



http://www.highlifter.com/foru...mpage_1/tm.htm#2606841</end quote></div>

Thanks Randy. Worldwide figures like I thought. I think Polaris is #1 in the US. I'd like to see some US and North America figures if anyone has them. Polaris sells tons of ATVs in the US and I bet Can-Am sells a lot in Canada. No telling what's popular in Mexico.