cscherer
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Hmmm...seems the other thread dissappeared.....
Hmmm...seems the other thread dissappeared.....
I'm wondering, seeing as pretty soon Arctic Cat will need to upgrade their injection system and Suzuki is now out of the picture, if maybe we will see a new large displacement Yamaha two stroke re-branded as a Arctic Cat or a domestic built Cat engine with a Yamaha Direct Injection system or some variant along these lines.
the cat 120 had a yamaha built engine in it. thats why the brand exchange.I would imagine it is a lot of money to develop a direct fuel system so sometimes it is just easier and cheaper to license and use another manufacturers system. Rebranding is really common as well, the introduction of the new Yamaha 120 sleds last year is a good example. Pretty sure there is or was alot of horse trading going on between the big four with all the patents covering snowmobile technology. But the prevailing rumor in the snowmobile industry is there is something big going on between Arctic Cat and Yamaha, time will tell I guess.