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Wow! This just popped into my news feed. 12/18/24 https://snowgoer.com/latest-news/textron-looking-for-strategic-alternatives-for-arctic-cat-division/32986/ Arctic Cat will suspend operations indefinitely. They are looking for Strategic Alternatives. Read the section about the filing to the...

BRP releases Q3 results, which shows another 11% drop in overall sales from the previous Q2 results. https://powersportsbusiness.com/news/brp/2024/12/10/brp-reports-q3-results-sales-drop-in-north-america/ BRP goal is to reduce inventory by 15%-20% be the end of the year.

BRP lays off 120 workers in their Canadian Ski-doo plants. But the bigger news if you read the whole article is BRP put the marine division of BRP up for sale back in October. This is big! Like the other Powersport brands BRP has been struggling the past few years after covid. But selling off...

Not UTV News, but it is a Powersports business, and KTM does work with CFMoto who is in the UTV industry. For those who have not known, KTM & it’s parent company Pierer Mobility AG discloses that layoffs are coming and production is going to be moving...

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So CFMOTO is having to postpone the release of the Z10. It sounds like they found a few issues they feel need to be resolved before they release it to the public. Sounds like a fall 2025 release date now.,

I think AC is struggling more as they are not as big as some of the others, and have less models to offer. But both Polaris & BRP have shown lower then projected on their quarterly returns for the past year & a half. Polaris did a large lay off earlier this year. So I don’t think it’s just AC...

Arctic Cat announced a week ago that they would be laying off some employees, and stopping all production after they complete building this model year’s snowmobile, and would restart in later 1st quarter 2025. And that they might not make any 2025 ATV’s or UTV’s...

A few thousand for Speed be a huge improvement. A year later and they have yet to release a 1000 cars. Speed UTV need has been very quiet lately.

BRP/Can Am celebrates the building of 500,000 Can Am Defender models. (55.5K per year) The Defender was released in 2016 and is still Can Am’s top utility work vehicle. https://news.brp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/can-am-celebrates-production-milestone-half-million-defender

Just saw this on UTV Driver. They found a new patent filling that looks to be a sealed HVAC RZR Pro series. On top of that it looks like 360 cameras might be coming too. https://www.utvdriver.com/utv-news/polaris-rzr-patent-enclosed-cabin-with-ac-360-camera/

Polaris 2024, 3rd quarter reports. https://powersportsbusiness.com/news/polaris/2024/10/24/polaris-reports-sales-drop-in-q3/

Segway hired a Sales Operations Manager to help support its dealers. https://www.utvdriver.com/utv-news/segway-hires-jason-pecsok-sales-operations-manager/

Figured I’d start a Powersports Industry News thread I I’m always watching what all the different manufacturers are doing. When I find something interesting news wise I’ll post it here. If you find something feel free to post it on this thread too. Please let’s try to keep it on topic and...

Here are a few, not so great pictures I took from some videos on my phone. There’s everything from full blown Pro R’s to pretty stock UTV’s and even some 4seaters. I saw Can Am, Polaris, Honda’s Yamaha’s and even a few Arctic Cats all out there racing. District 38 is a great low cost way to go...