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Sad to see Yamaha stop making sleds. I guess I could see it coming with the changes over the past several years. They had some great technology and the best fit and finish in the industry.
Location: Butler County Ohio and Winters in Florida
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Simple, lack of sales.
The snow mobile customer is a relatively small market to began with.
Like so many machines, technology and performance went wild. This costs a lot of money.
So take the already small customer base, then eliminate a large portion of them due to the expense.
I live in SW Ohio, I haven't ever seen a snow mobile in person BTW and I am 59 years old. Maybe I am too far south?
Sad to see Yamaha stop making sleds. I guess I could see it coming with the changes over the past several years. They had some great technology and the best fit and finish in the industry.
Definitely sad seeing this. They've proven to be able to develop a good snowmobile. The market is just so small, and every year each manufacturer has to progress the technology, and that isn't cheap.
I also think of the small segment of buyers, there is an even smaller segment that want 4 strokes.
That's a bummer, had a couple of Yamaha sleds in Idaho. Power and reliability of the RX-1 was impressive-just heavy for a mountain machine.
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