Cat's market share is not growing fast enough to warrant a change like this and its 2-year-old SDI 800 twin is still relatively new. There has been talk of Arctic Cat bringing a 900cc 2-stroke twin to market to one-up the other 850s. Simply stated, Cat, Ski-Doo and Yamaha just haven’t had enough time to respond to Polaris’s 650.
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Whether or not the OEMs that were scheduled to bring new stuff in 2022 will spend the millions to actually tool up changes next year, is another thing. Keep in mind, big things like chassis revamps usually are in the pipeline for at least three years. They'll sell everything just leaving things the way they are. The other three, although due for a chassis change or at least a radical modification, probably won't be doing it this year. We've mentioned before that Polaris is probably in the best place here because it introduced its all-new Matryx chassis this year. We won't be seeing a new and radical chassis change from any OEM. Rather than taking stabs at hoped-for new technology, we're thinking about what we're not going to see. We're looking at the industry from a different perspective right now. This year we're mostly drawing a blank – and it's because of the above situation. It's getting very close to the time we start getting wind of what’s in the future for MY 2022. With the spotlight clearly on delivering product this year, it sheds some light on what we can expect next year. With those businesses under their own COVID protocols being taxed to the max to make shocks, electrical components, gears, tracks and a zillion other pieces that go into making up a snowmobile, the sno-mo-OEMs have been hard set to supply the sleds their dealers ordered in the spring of 2020. The problem stems from the adjunctive companies that supply parts to the manufacturers. OEMs are pretty challenged just to deliver sleds built for MY 2021. On the supply side of the equation this situation has caused a number of problems. We haven't seen demand like this in over 30 years. So many things have been affected by COVID 19 - not the least of which is the way it has altered supply and demand.įrankly, this year's seemingly bottomless demand for both used and new sleds is unprecedented. It's been a strange year in the snowmobile business.