What could Yamaha offer to make you buy a new sled?

[jaydaniels]

One chassis across the performance line-up is the proven way to success. As long as the chassis is light, handles and rides well, it will be a winner, guaranteed. Look at the original 1980 TX-L Indy. Polaris ran that basic chassis with upgrades each year for close to 20 years and was #1 for many of those years. Ski-doo started doing the same thing with the ZX chassis and then with the Rev they took over #1. Yamaha had a good thing going with the Pro-Action chassis but in typical Yamaha fashion quit updating it for ride and handling improvements and it languished. Now they have too many different types of chassis and none do anything particularly well.

They should fire all their current chassis people and start over with a clean slate. The motor guys do a great job.

I agree with this. Too many chassis for sure. You have all these small issues with each chassis which adds up to a lot of issues. If you have one chassis you would correct many of the issues on every sled with one change. For example, the front end bushings on the Apex. If every Yamaha sled had the same basic components and you fix the issue with the front end bushings wearing out you fix the entire line up. Seems like that would be much more cost effectvie. One chassis and make it work for everything. The Apex started out as the RX1 chassis and with very small modificatins became more rider forward. The 2 machines are based on the same chassis but ride totally different.

 

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