I was fortunate enough to receive these photos late this evening direct from the factory floor…with this short message – “Exciting news today – the first 858 sleds went down the production line! Attached are a couple images. Wanted to give Arctic Insider first dibs.”
With the Princeton Outlaw Grass Drags and Swap Meet happening this weekend and Hay Days in the not too distant future, it’s safe to say we’ve all “flipped the switch” to winter. Hope to see many of you at Hay Days.
The last time I was this excited for my new sled to arrive was in 2003. I purchased an ‘03 F7 which I still have today.
So exciting! Super pumped here as I have an Alpha One 858 one order (Thank you TSS!). Winter is coming!
I’m jealous. I’m waiting another year. Still enjoying my 800 Riot.
Lookin’ Good! We’ll stop and say hi at Hay Days!
Let’s go!
Hard to beat the anticipation this time of year!
Buddy has a 128 sno pro on order. Going to be one fun winter.
What is getting released at Hay Days this time? 658?
It should be 2 brand new catalyst based race sleds, but rumor has it that isn’t going to happen
I guess that’ll have to wait until the sale to John Deere wraps up?
I thought they talked about a turbo this year?
Why is the name and email prefilled in with Jim’s name? I’m going to leave it since that’s funny. I’m not the great Jim.
Maybe they’re going to release the engines they designed to replace suzuki with, before signing Yamaha. wonder if one of them is the original XX engine.?
Good thing CF Moto is not in the sled business…
Its sad to see how bad they are crushing AC/textron/tracker/cushman/caterpillar (do we still make units for caterpillar?) in the off-road segment
Yes, yes it is.
Arctic Cat needs to come back with retro decal packages and colour schemes. There decal packages have been shit past few years. The best years were the 90’s and the Firecat series.
Black and green should always be offered. What about clothing anything.
With the motor mounted so low in that new chassis, is it possible they are worried it could be damaged if a racer cases a jump? Could that be why AC is hesitant to use Catalyst for snocross? Just my thought. Seems it wouldn’t be as much of an issue on an XC sled.
It’s sales of the XC sled. They haven’t made the ISR minimum required build for years. So the agreement with BRP & Polaris is they can’t make and major changes to the old chassis. So to come out with a new Catalyst XC they will have to make the minimum build. Which would cost them dearly sitting on all the sleds that they can’t sell. And I’m not sure if they sold all the 60 they built last year.