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I mentioned the patents on post 18, and speculated that RGM probably gets nothing from those as part of the terms of the AC release contract. I could be wrong, but TR brought up one time about them not getting royalties, but that they won their court case. Which has since been overturned. Also...

Unfortunately that is why that round of AC ownership failed and eventually sold to Textron, as they were months away from filing bankruptcy. Textron saved Arctic Cat. Then unfortunately again Textron did nothing to make the brand what it once was. I never understood why they even bought it...

What about them? For one, AC has the rights to use any & all patents. I’m told when the two parted ways, some of the terms were royalties were dropped, but that was also I think RGM thought they would get it in the court case, which they won, and later was overturned. To the best of my knowledge...

100% and that would be the hope that a established powersport company would buy the AC brand, and their foundation and network already in place would make getting parts, getting dealer support and overall trying to grow the product better. With the current owners of AC, they never cared about...

This would not be a direct competitor to the Pro R’s and Mav R’s. Those are the top of the food chain vehicles, and their price points show it. This hypothetical UTV would be competing with brands in the low to mid $20K range, as that’s still a very strong market share nationwide. Polaris...

This was not in reference to the original Wild Cat, but in reference to the wild Cat XX platform. The XX chassis, roll cage and suspension design is very good and from a geometry standpoint is better then the radius rod design rear suspension the other brands are doing. I would hope the car...

What would it take to sell your current UTV or UTV you have on order? Would you buy a UTV based on the Arctic Cat Wild Cat XX, with minor body & cockpit change improvements, that comes in a 2 or 4 seat configuration. It would have a 1000cc, 3 cylinder low boost turbo for reliability, that...

Speed does not come with or offer a tool to open the secondary clutch, but it’s designed to open using a small crows foot pry bar. HM makes a bitchen (but expensive) tool to open the secondary and locks it open so if you had to get strands out of it, it’s allot easier and less scary of getting...

Anytime a charge is processed to my CC’s, or debit cars, I get a email & text message notice. I also have two factor authentication if you try to log on to my accounts. In the past year someone tried to buy stuff using my card #, but I caught it instantly because of the text alert. I locked...

I did not think it had anything to do with RG? I thought we were talking about Ford trucks, I-beams and a roll over. Do you have Speed derangement syndrome? Not everything is an about RG. Don’t let him live in your head rent free. Sorry for talking trucks & Rangers on this shit show of a...

I used to have a 87 Ranger with the 2.9 V6. The trans was built up by Valley Transmission , who back in the day did lots of the Ford race trans transmissions. So they had all the tricks in it, minus the manual valve body. Then I had Tim Lawerence (TLR) who did a bunch of class 7 trucks. We put...

If you want to get technical. It was the right rear tire that was going down or very low on pressure and looks to be pulling off the beadlock. Once that dug into the berm it threw the truck in the air. Then the I-beam front suspension which your not going to turn back when at full lock digs...

That trucks first problem was a rear flat tire going down. You could see it folding over and pulling off the beadlock. Once it dug in to the berm it was all over. Also the front twin I-beam suspension is awesome for cheap wheel travel, but it’s got goofy geometry, which definitely did not help it.

Exactly, they step out of their wheelhouse and look what happened. IMO Craig Scanlon ran TAP/4WP as his personal piggy bank. Sponsoring his racing teams, sponsoring friends, and everything from multi truck TT teams, KOTH teams, signing drivers to endorsements deals and building his personal 3...

Here is another article about the closing of Arctic Cat. https://www.startribune.com/arctic-cat-owner-stopping-all-production-could-sell-the-minnesota-snowmobile-and-atv-maker/601196949 Here is another article with an interesting paragraph in the article. “In a filing with the SEC on...

For those that don’t know the history of Polaris, here is a history timeline I did over a year ago about Polaris. https://www.race-dezert.com/forum/threads/the-history-of-polaris.144906/ Here is the history timeline I did for Arctic Cat. After reading both you will see how intertwined the two...

There are several reasons why a brand might buy and own another brand. In Polaris case they have been known to buy a brand at the bottom & build it up. Polaris Bought Indian Motorcycles when they owned Victory Motorcycles and made Indian so successful that Polaris eliminated the Victory brand...

100%. The biggest problem with Arctic Cat is not just Arctic Cat, it’s Textron. I never understood why they purchased the company, as from day 1 you could see they did not know the industry, they never brought in the right people or were willing to spend some money to build it back up. Arctic...

I’ve been keeping an eye on the recent news with Arctic Cat & Textron. A couple months ago Textron said due to softening demand, higher interest rates, and overstocked dealer inventory, Textron said Arctic Cat would finish building the 2025 model Snowmobiles and stop all production in December...

I’m 100% confident a few independent teams racing a Speed would have better results then RG & team have had.