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Not saying my dealer has any inside information, but at one of his meetings, they had a discussion about the lack of an affordable beginner sled. The concensus was that the cost of producing a 4 stroke sled has just about put it out of reach for the average young beginner. the phazer is a sweet sled, but even it carries a 10000$ + price tag up here. i had looked into getting last year's model and it didn't matter if you chose the RTX short track (with Floats all around) or the MTX, the out the door sale price was over 12000$ once taxes, licensing, pdi and such was added. He said the same thing that was mentioned by others on this thread earlier about perhaps a 2-stroke alternative priced at a more attractive level for the average consumer. Another thing he'd mentioned that got me excited was that the Yamaha reps kept saying how the "4-stroke engine was designed to outlive the chassis". One of them told him after that the idea had been tossed around about offering custom chassis to the consumer. Sort of like a build your machine with the options you'd like added on directly. I kinda like the idea of choosing from a list of options and bulkhead/tunnel combinations, tracks...etc; might take a while to get there but some of you northern dealerships already offer prebuilt turbo sleds and the like, so maybe it's not so far off....
