The only rumour I've heard is of a 250 sport quad made from the Ozark, like Honda made the 250EX out of the Recon. A second, entry level sport quad would sure be great, but I have heard there is to be more. What? Are they ready with a big bore Sport/Utility already?
Zuki is sure coming up fast and hard. Maybe a full race version of the Z?
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Maybe a yellow Mojave, just going on current trends between the two manufactures, especially if it is sapposed to be a 250cc machine.

 

My Suzuki dealer told me that Suzuki is not getting any ATV's from Kawasaki. No 650 V-twin for Zuki. I imagine we will still see new machines from both manufacturers that are still seperate. I don't think we will see too many of machines cross over like the Z400. I think Kawi is working on the big bore sport quad right now to go head to head with the Raptor and DS650. I think Suzuki is going to try to finish Honda off by releasing a 250 quadsport to compete with the 250EX & 300EX. I think we will see a lot of new machines from Suzuki and Kawasaki in the next couple years.

I don't think Honda is going to go big bore. They didn't in the late 80's when Suzuki had the Quadzilla and Yamaha had the Banshee. I can see a revised 400EX maybe adding reverse and higher compression. We can all hope that it will be the CRF450F motor, because that will spark up the sport big time. Or if Yamaha releases a 426 or 450 with better handling than anything they have made before. It will also be interesting to see what Bombardier has up their sleeves as well.

I give it another year until we see a 4-stroke motocrosser from Kawasaki and Suzuki, and 3 years till it makes it into a quad. In the next 3 to 4 years I think racing will pick up big time.

These are just my thoughts of where the industry is headed. Sorry I rambled on.

 

The new quad might replace the king quad and be in the same class as the honda rancher. It may also be a brand new Big Bore. Who knows.

JaMeS

 

I would say exactly the same machine as the Z400 with a DRZ250 motor.

 

I think Suzuki is goin BIG-bore BIG time. I read in a dirtwheels a while back that Suzuki is goin for an 800cc duning machine, "QuadDuner" is what they called it I think. I also think they will do this because they did it with the 500R Quadzilla in the 80s with the major 2 cycle era.
Zuki has somethin BIG up there sleeve. It is time for the OL' YELLOW and BLUE to shine!

 

My bet:

1. Ozark sport
2. New LT80