Another one bites the dust. So sad.

You can buy a 55" TV, a Playstation 5 and enough games to keep you busy for a year for $1,500. A new snowmobile is $15,000, easy to see why they can't sell enough of them.

Attic cat stole the original design from my wife grandfather, it was going to be patented as the snow cat….

This is sad, the remaining brands need competition.

With the price of what they want for "toys" anymore i can see why.

Competition will come from overseas. I believe there is room for inexpensive competition. A 300 cc single cylinder for $4,500 would probably sell like crazy. Make money on accessories, repairs and higher end machines when people move up and upgrade.

Arctic cat was late to the game in Orvs and even when they did finally show up, they were severely lacking in quality. People soon realised the quality problems and AC was never were able to capture any significant market share after that. With the weather patterns getting warmer with less snow, you cant run a company on snowmobile sales ......thats becoming a thing of the past.

As other have said, competition is good for the industry, but Arctic Cat didnt provide much....

Totally agree I live 90 miles from TRF and 37 miles from Polaris in Roseau.15K to 45K for toys???????????I sure can't afford those prices...

Remember when The Skidoo elan came out...under $500.

Yeah, sure.

My Suzuki ATV has the same clutch assembly as some of the artic cat sleds. Always make me wonder who owns what. Everyone talks about what everything cost and economy is bad. Yet there is no shortage of high priced toys running around on rivers and the roads and trails.
They just added on to the place down the street that sells ATVs and motorcycles. The local Harley shop is adding on.
Must be a marketing issue for Artic Cat???


Mac

1977 my Dad bought us kids a Polaris 250 Colt for $600 it was a 1976 carry over.My brother's and myself wore that thing out,fun times.....

The old cats had susuki motors, mikuni carburators, and comet clutches. Polaris had fugi motors.

I’ve had a bunch of Arctic Cat Atv’s. When they were bought out and name changed I quit looking at them. Sub conscious deal with name recognition maybe? No matter, I quit buying them.

Osky

Arctic Cat is known to be junk around here.

Ditch pickle's are what some people call them here.

Agreed. 100%

Those Fuji motors were bullet proof in the old Indy 500s and 400s. Put many thousand miles on a 500 and it was never on the wrong end of a tow rope....

My dad owned an Arctic Cat dealership when I was a kid. We live five miles out of town on a dead end dirt road. Luckily he sold it the year before we quite having winter for about a decade starting in the late 90s. The last year he sold 120 sleds, more than some nearby dealers right on the interstate. Arctic cat brass was out of touch with reality and forcing dealers to buy “x” number of sleds more than the previous season among other things. They had some good people in the company, but they very much doomed themselves from within.

Another big mistake they made was partnering with Gander Mountain and selling ATVs in store and screwing many core longtime dealers. That drove many good dealers out and was the true beginning of the downfall.

It’s sad because I grew up with my head bouncing on the handlebars of a ‘76 Jag. Heck, my mom was snowmobiling when she was two weeks overdue with me in her! lol. The 1990 Prowler model and ensuing similar models were 15 years ahead of their time and then they dropped that style and went to the big boats starting in ‘94. Just a bummer for another MN company, but as many have mentioned the prices of all these recreational vehicles is insane. Happy trapping! ScottW

Both the Fuji and Suzuki motors of the 80-90s were bullet proof. Many thousands still ripping around! Happy trapping! ScottW