Polaris is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the introduction of its popular Ranger SxS vehicle series. Since 1998 the company has produced more than 1m UTVs at its Huntsville, Alabama factory.
BRP has inaugurated its new, modernised manufacturing facility at Valcourt, Quebec. The installation of a new ultramodern production equipment for Can-Am Spyder vehicle and Ski-Doo snowmobile assembly lines “increases the facility’s efficiency, flexibility for innovation and engineering, and optimises its manufacturing infrastructure and logistics.” BRP is owner of Austrian engine manufacturer Rotax.
The UTV World Championship will return to Laughlin, Nevada, on April 4-7 2019 for a fifth annual event that is set to capitalise on the 150,000 worldwide live stream audience reached this year.
Robert C. Fox, Jr. has retired from the board of directors of Fox Factory, the company he founded in 1974. In 1976, Kent Howerton won the 500 cc AMA Motocross National Championship on Bob’s AirShox and Marty Smith followed with another 500 cc championship for FOX in 1977 - Fox Factory was born the following year.
Garland, Texas based Sportsman Country has become the latest ATV/UTV distributor to announce that it is to enter the Electric Vehicle market, having signed a deal with Chinese EV innovator Kandi Technologies.
BRP reported “strong momentum in North America powersports retail - up +16%, outpacing the industry” for Q2. August saw formal completion of the Triton Industries acquisition, the Lansing, Michigan based manufacturer of Manitou Pontoon Boats.
The MTA/Motovan Dealer Expo at Scottsdale, Arizona in August saw 400 dealers attend an event that attracted over 100 vendors. MTA, founded in 1972 at Dearborn Michigan in 1972 as a specialist tyre distributor, was bought by Quebec based Motovan. Now headquartered at Corona, California and headed up by Greg Blackwell, MTA is a U.S. distributor for several well-known European brands including Five Gloves and Shot Race Gear (France), TCX Boots (Italy) and Liqui Moly (Germany).
