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2020 Release

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Hopefully not a Y-oit 2s AC 800
 

Must be a 2-stroke with dual rear exhaust!
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hearing 500-600cc 4 stroke entry level, 129's coming back, two up viper, and a 800cc+ two stroke.... should be good!
 
5 - Yamaha is Arctic 4 stroke devision..

Considering Arctic Cat is down to a single 4 Stroke model (Thundercat) these are pretty much the possibilities:
1) Yamaha is introducing only 1 model for 2020 (Sidewinder SRX).
2) Yamaha will have the Sidewinder SRX with some re-badged 2 Stroke Cats for sale.
3) Cat will build additional models for Yamaha utilizing the turbo 4 and NA 4 Stroke engines (basically the 4S division of Cat).
4) Other then a Sidewinder SRX Yamaha builds some of their own models again.

Those are your 4 possibilities at this point. If it’s either option 1 or 2 Yamaha is out of the snowmobile business within the next couple years. If it’s option 3 or 4 there might be some future left in tuning fork sleds.

The 2020 teaser is clearly a Cat design so I think the best we can hope for is option 3 at this point. If only the Yamaha brand (other then the Thundercat) offers a selection of 4 Stroke engines then it might help sales a bit versus having two brands with the same Powertrain options. It will also spark new rumors of Yamaha buying Cat and offering the Cat brand as the 2 Stroke brand and Yamaha as the 4 Stroke brand,

Anyhow that’s how I see this all going down after Cat’s pretty much only 2 Stroke release.
 
There's not gonna be any rear exhaust on a cat chassis and that's clearly what that is
 
There's not gonna be any rear exhaust on a cat chassis and that's clearly what that is

There’s no rear exhaust on that teaser pic, just some photoshop “go fast” lines out the back. I zoomed in on the better quality Facebook picture and it’s a Cat chassis sled.
 
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