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Why does John Deere keep posting this stuff and creating all kinds of speculation?

It's doubtful, however new business opportunities can make a company take another look. If Yamaha needs more volume in their Georgia plant buying Cat gives them that with an additional product line for their dealers. The other thing it gives them is a modern 2 stroke EPA compliant engine...

That depends. If they feel the tariffs are too high bringing product in from China, CF Moto may very well want a US production site. I still think that the brand, patents, chassis and intellectual property will go to someone else. How they use it? Who knows. If they are just buying brand and...

If they can’t sell it as a unit they will break it up into pieces and someone will buy the parts business. That’s what happened in 1981 when Certified Parts Corp did just that when Arctic Enterprises went bankrupt. Think Kimpex, Parts Unlimited, even Certified Parts Corp is still around. I hope...

Well I just bought a new Catalyst Riot 600. Great sled. My hope is that someone buys it whole, but if not it’ll likely be sold in pieces. The replacement parts business will be purchased by someone like Certified Parts Corp did in 1981 when Arctic Enterprises went bankrupt and liquidated. Sadly...

It’s hard to tell what if anything is going on. Employees have reported John Deere has been looking at the factory, but even if that’s true it could simply be they are looking for a new company to contract build their Gators. Something is feeding the latest rumor and whatever it is has people...

Honestly I don’t see John Deere buying it to just shut it down. Textron just spent millions of dollars on a brand new chassis and engine. If Polaris or BRP bought it yes they would shut it down, but there is no incentive for Deere to do so. Remember everyone said that Textron would pull the plug...

Yes probably nothing will come of it, but was just something going around and it was something half way believable. I guess we'll see what happens.

There was confirmation that Yamaha did want to buy it awhile back, but Textron said no. Now Yamaha is out and their not coming back. CFMoto was also an interested party according to rumors, but if Cat goes to the Chinese I don't see how that saves the brand as far as a manufacturer goes. They...

The only way it makes sense if if John Deere wants to expand their Gator line into the sport market. As far as snowmobiles are concerned Deere does have legacy there and it gives their dealers an optional product line during the winter. I'd say it actually makes more sense for John Deere to own...

So there has been some talk of Textron looking to offload Cat over the past few months. Just rumors and speculation. Today SnoWest reignited the rumors that John Deere is actively pursuing a purchase of Arctic Cat from Textron. Normally I’d say just a rumor, but what made it more interesting is...

I bought a new Riot 600 Catalyst to replace my 2016 Viper at the end of the year. Rumor going around right now is that John Deere is going to buy Arctic from Textron. I guess we'll see what happens.

After 8 years my Viper MTX 141" was just getting to the point it's either trading time or soon I'd need to start investing money into it. It was a good sled, but I always wanted something a bit easier to handle for Black Hills trails and off trail. I started on Cat and rode them until I had 3...

The fact is there was no product pipeline after the 2017 Sidewinder launched. What happened about 4 months after the new Sidewinder showed up in dealerships? Arctic Cat Inc. was purchased by Textron January 25, 2017. It was game over at that point for Yamaha since all the work they did on the...

There was no new in-house chassis development after the 2008 Nytro. The existing Japanese stuff saw a few improvements, but work stopped on future development. The Arctic Cat joint venture was at first just supposed to an alternative offering to their in-house models, but later it was all they...

When I has my Nytro my knees used to hurt so bad after a long day on it. My knees don't hurt at all on my Viper so it needed work.

Actually the whole decision to exit the snowmobile business was a lot simpler decision for them, but they are not going to put the truth into a press release. They no longer have a North American engineering team in place after shutting down all R&D in mid 2021. They no longer have any...

Yamaha corporate would have closed up the snowmobile division after the 2024 model year if there wasn't a contract with Cat still in place they needed to finish out. There will be little to no effort put into the 2025 model year.

This. It'll just be a few Sidewinder models and maybe one Viper. I expect the re-badged 2 strokes and kids sleds to be gone. Specs will be identical to the 2024 with some "final edition" color and graphics treatments. You can dream all you want, but they are not going to invest one more penny...

Parts will probably be available for years to come. You might have to source some things through Cat and do eBay searches, but a lot of parts will be out there. This is a different situation then if a company simply went out of business completely.