I know this is going to sound biased, but I am a totally neutral observer.
In 93, the summit became the first factory mountain sled, who followed?
In 98, the 670ho summit X hit the market, who could highmark that with a factory sled?
In 2000, the highmarks with the 151's hit the mountain. Which brands soon followed with factory 150ish tracks? "The Ski-Doo Summit 700 Highmark snowmobile is awarded the title of “Mountain Muscle Sled of the Year” by SnoWest Magazine."
Shortly after electronic reverse was introduced, who has since followed that?
In 2004, the rider forward rev was introduced, who has since followed that idea? This particular model also has the pyramid frame. Any Poo's or Cat's look under the hood lately?
Did the XM get the flex track or t-motion from poo? How about rider forward or the pyramid? Oh, probably the flat gauges or heated glove box huh? No,must be the 16" wide track?
Personally I don't see anything that wasn't born at or evolved from BRP on it.
I don't know, I'm just saying..........
Oh, and to keep it neutral, I think in 11, poo did work there way into the front seat with doo. I cannot honestly say they kicked doo out, but they made quite the impression for sure. However, from what I have been reading and hearing, I think that doo may have opened the door and started shoving poo out of the truck with the demo rides on the XM!
Doo has made some great sleds, I should probably just leave it at that but.......... remember the 84 Phazer LT, awesome mountain sled, remember the IFS sleds, how about the 90, 91 Indy 500, awesome sled, the 93 to 95 XLT finnicky but loved to be moddewd worked great, Doo was struggling big time between 90 and 97, lotsa mountain slugs in there, and gotta say you must have been on a different hill if you thought the 97-98 Summit outperformed the 97-98 RMK 700, In 2000 the Poo 800 twin, had its issues but first 800 twin, Doo's 01 twin 800 was not so spectacular, the Rev personally I loved it... the 04 to 08 Rotax 800 not so much we pulled as many of those home as we did the 08-09 800 Dragon, the 05-06 Poo 900 not my favorite but some guys liked the chugging thing, same as the Doo 1000 RT sounde good on paper reality not so much, then the 07 XRS yech what a train wreck, then came the Dragon, great chassis crappy engine, then the 08 XP, most guys spent that year fixing venting modding, huge issues R& D by consumer type release like the Poo 900. Now the Pro in 11, awesome sled and IMO the obvious leader in mountain sleds in 11 and 12 and the reason Doo is making changes in 13 to retain buyers. Good for them , it seems to me every dog has his day, maybe Doo will have another one in 13 cause they didn't have one in 11 or 12, and a bunch of guys ranting hooray after a demo ride is not quite gonna cut it in my book, lets check back next february ish and see where we all are. ....
I'm sorry I neglected Cat, but the M7 was a standout in 07.
And, another small item ....to my knowledge, Poo and Cat and Yammi have done all these things without , not even one, not even a wee little..... drain on the taxpayers purse in the form of government bailout.
As guys havesaid, its progress, some good, some bad, but they've all had their highs and lows and in reality they've all reacted market and product wise to one anothers growth.
