It's in..PRO RMK at 143 HP

hillking said:

I owned both , xp and poo's there's no dought that pro will domanate .As for that guys 700 w\pipe and track change to camo , . I challange anyone with a stock xp any length stock track any year . Find a 07 dragon w/PIPE track change (CE), geared and cluched properly . will hand it to you all day long. just the way it is. Might trade my d-8 just to say it's only a little 7.

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PJ-Hunter said:

Yeah, no stock 700 will run with a stock 800. That's wht peeps buy 800s.

Now, Polaris hasn't been trying to catch Ski Doo. Convince yourself that they are, just puts you into denial. Polaris has to catch up to everybody. They dug a very deep hole by abandoning their original 800 Liberty and creating the 900. FAIL #1. They dug the hole deeper with their new 800 motor and putting it in the Dragon.

All sled makers are on the hotseat at one time or another. Polaris is just the most recent one. Doo was there with their drive shaft and crank issues but resolved them fairly fast (at least mine was). Cat was there for a loooooong time until they came up with the M chassis. I'm trying very hard to not be one-sided here but Doo's original REV chassis set the bar for Cat and Poo. Poo failed, Cat didn't. The M chassis has turned out to be quite the sled. Doo rode the REV chassis for 5-6 years and was successful until they changed 800 motors. That first year 800r was not the greatest but they learned and fixed it. Then they created the REV XP chassis and that has turned out to be a success. There were the the "pine cone" jokes but in all truths I have found the sled to be quite reliable and not fragile as some would say.

Now in all fairness one cannot judge sleds by racing on a flat grassy surface. Clutching come into play. You cannot truly compare in a flat meadow drag. Again clutching. The only comparison is side by side riding in the environment that the sleds were designed for. You cannot compare the Pro to the Ski Doo Freeride either. The Freeride was intentionally beefed up and made heavier to survive larger jumps and drops. You can compare the Assault to the Freeride. You can compare the Pro to the Summit x or even the Everest. The Assault's from the previous chassis that I have seen don't even come close to the XP and they really aren't a boondocking, general mountain use sled. Peeps have modded them to adapt to the general mountain riding but then the Assault was more like the Dragon with the exception of the neato graphics.

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SuperBad said:

Spoken like a true biased ski-doo owner who doesn't know jack about Polaris.

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shortstop20 said:

Anybody who thinks Polaris doesn't currently have the most unreliable 800 motor is in la-la land.

I'll take a Pro-RMK, but they can keep the motor.

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yamahaboy701 said:

o ya, image if that Polaris had 160hp .... it would fell like 200hp.

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gman086 said:

SLP got an extra 12 HP last week with their new pipe and the PCM for the new Pro putting it around 160hp (they won't reveal the hp numbers, only the gains). Even stock the Pro's are beating the XP's in lake racing (not hillclimbing). With the SLP kit that "woman's or 600 class" sled is gonna lay an absolute beat down on the XP's and I'm not brand loyal to either (own both actually) at aboout the same overall cost (since the Etec is about a grand more as I recall).

Have FUN!

G MAN

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winter brew said:

Awesome:face-icon-small-dis....Doo needed some competition in the 600 class.

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deet said:

Sigh, you Ski Doo freaks have this awkward handle on reality.

I can only imagine that a handful of the Ski Doo chimps have actually rode the new pro, which means that the general population of Ski Doo owners are narrow minded and relentless in believing the POS they own and finance at 19 Grand is actually worth its paper value.

I would take the new pro over that freeride joke any day of the week. Not only on average at any dealer will I save 2-3g on the initial price of the sled, I will feel more confident in Polaris beta engineering with the new pro, as opposed to Ski Doo finally catching up to the curve and recognizing that EFI was the way of the future.

Ski Doo is falling behind, Arctic Cat has flawed that new M8 (IT LOOKS LIKE A NITRO, DONT EVEN KID YOURSELF), and Yamaha still makes Heavy Lunkers and big expensive gutless 4 strokes to trench through your favourite hill.

Forget about modifiying and tweeking everything too! Nobody wants that anymore! People want turn key sleds that perform, sure it looks cool to your buddies in the garage when you rip apart your sled and you're doing upgrades, but the same situation on the hill is kind of frustrating when there waiting to ride. So all this stupid yammering about HP is DOA in my opinion, I like what I see with the new Pro, it seems like it works well in the heavy and is a decent climber with the HP the manufacturer graced it with. Similar theory is like comparing a big UNLIMITED LITRE AMERICAN V8 up against an engineered small litre V-6 that makes as much power, better MPG, better emissions (Don't even deny this either, we all see it coming), and better towing.

So comparing the new Pro to the new Doo is like comparing apples to oranges........... except in this case its more like comparing a fine steak dinner to dog crap.

IMO.

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