Recent content by NIKAL

You are correct, from 2011 to 2016 when AC was sold to Textron Brad was the acting VP. I would prefer to see new leadership as the previous leadership is why AC was in financial trouble and the verge of bankruptcy, and why a buyer was sought and Textron bought it. Look at AC’s history and...

Arctic Cat has a buyer! ARGo’s CEO Brad Darling, who was also a previous CEO of Arctic Cat has partnered with a private equity firm to purchase Arctic Cat from Textron. This will keep the snow & off road div open and hopefully they will grow them. I’m hoping they can keep the XX model and...

Well I guess the tariffs are not slowing CFMoto from releasing new models. CFMoto just released their new U10 inclosed cab hvac model. The U10 XL Pro Highland is $18K less than Polaris’s Ranger XD Northstar model. Looking at some specs, the Ranger XL beats the U10 in several categories, but for...

Yeah tough position for Speed to be in that’s for sure. Not sure if it’s 46% across the board or if different industries and tariff codes will have different tariff percentages? It has been teared like that before. I’m not sure how Speed can absorb that, without having to add a tariff charge on...

Yeah that has screwed up a few people I know. A good friend of mine had a Speed on order, but sold his spot and bought a 2 seat Pro R. In theory this should have been easier to clear his slide in his Toyhauler. But as you guessed it’s wider than the Speed, which he was not expecting. Then he put...

Great video comparison's. I really liked the 2nd & 3rd videos.

Everyone is so shocked about these ICE raids, but this was normal in the 80’s. I remember watching on the news that Vans shoes was busted and hundreds were arrested. Companies were getting fined when audited by the INS. (INS is now ICE) SS# had to be verified if not the company could get in...

81 cars going on the Speed ride tomorrow. That’s pretty cool. By Brother in Law was on the Parker AZ Arctic Cat XXtraviganza ride last weekend and they had 38ish XX’s and a few Speeds on that ride.

Never said he does not have to own it. Just stating what I believe and what I’ve heard. I’m pretty sure RG takes this personal. Two years ago at KOTH, he admitted that if he could do this over he would not have done it. It’s that F’ing hard. You’re right he wanted to be different then the...

To be fair, those were Robbys words. He said he was restrained by bean counters at both Polaris & Arctic Cat. He vowed to be different. It was not hard to believe him, especially in the early days as it was legit and he had well known people behind the project. Guys like Weddle said, this is...

Here is the Polaris video that talks about the new housing. Go to minute 3:30.

All 2025 Pro R models come with this one piece cast thermostat housing. It started at a race part that became production. About 6 months ago on one of the Polaris race shop talk videos they talked about this part, and being developed for the factory race team and then made into production.

Not good! I’ve said it before, the best thing that could happen is Speed hires a CEO to run the day to day and to hire the proper people for each dept. This would let RG & TR do what they do best which is design the products, but let someone else manage it on a professional level. They have to...

Super old video from years ago. RG just reposted it and everyone thinks it’s something new. That’s the NC shop for reference, which was sold a couple years ago to Tesla. I’m not sure why RG is rehashing old info? But so many are thinking it’s new, so I guess it worked??

How do you like the Wen? I’m looking at the Wen 3600 dual fuel one, as it’s still portable enough to load in a truck or take somewhere, but has the 30 amp plug so I could plug into my house panel and run necessities during an outage.