Just wondering, The Dealer said it is, But there is a Barcode tag on the side cover the has "Fuji Heavy Industries" writen on it. The Dealer said that Fuji Has a 20% stake in Polaris?.
Doug.

 

the HO engine is made buy Fuji just as the tag says. i dont know where your dealer got his info but its not a american engine.

later
jon

 

Ok, Thanks, I have never heard of Fuji. Are they any good?, As far as reliability and power? Do they also make the Engine in the Expidetion 425 too?.
Doug.

 

Well... your dealer is partly correct Fuji is somewhat American because General Motors owns about 30% of it.

There are Fuji engines in all of the Polaris machines.

In snowmobiles the Fuji 488 (alias 500) has a legendary reputation for durability.

I really do not think that engines have ever been a relability issue at Polaris. In the past it was all of the other parts surrounding the engine that fell apart. LOL

 

I found somthing on the web about Fuji!.
www.robinamerica.com/about/fuji.html

Looks well diversified, But Subaru?
Doug.

 

Why you ******* Subaru? There are a bad a$$ company.No American car company can come close in there reliability record. Now they finally released the WRX to the states. Just to bad its not the full blown version. But that car will make allot of you american muscle guys shake you head in disbelief.
matty

 

I just read on the Net that GM Pumped something Like 1.4Billion Dollars into Fuji Heavy Industries effectively buying them out in 1999. So it Looks Like the Sportsman 500HO is the Impalla SS or the 454SS of Utility ATV's!.
I guess that would make the Scrambler the Corvette!
Doug.

 

From what I've found out, Fuji heavy industries builds engines for a lot of manufacturers, like Subaru, John Deere, Snapper etc. They have a manufacturing plant in Wisconsin for their subsidiary Robin America. Whether or not Polaris' engines (if any at all) are manufactured there, that is still elusive. However it appears that Fuji is quite a 'Big Gun' when it comes to engine manufacturing. In regards to Subaru, their engines are quite well known for being bullet proof. They (Subaru) are so well liked that some people that build homebuilt aircraft use them in their projects. BTW they also build structural members for Boeing on their 777 aircraft. I don't feel that there is much to fear about the quality of what this manufacturer is capable of producing. In other words, buy with confidence that these engines are of top quality.

 

I always thought that the 2 stroke motors were made by KTM or one of their subsidiaries. But since the motor is metric I always figured it was foreign one way or the other.

 

WRONG ... THERE ARE SOME AMERICAN MADE POLARIS ENGINES. MOST ARE JAPANESE BY FUJI BUT THERE ARE A FEW.