Need to go back to the grass roots small dealers again.   Thats the market, you have to build back, but start over again.   The “marina” on our lake, which is now limited to gas, candy, worms and swag, was a full scale boat and AC dealer at one time.   all gone, reduced to a pump.   bigger is not always better

I agree, the large format in this industry is not helping out the dealers at all.  I can see why BRP would want that though with their extensive offerings. What good is a product with out the support, cannot see how a manufacture can be this short sighted.  However I have heard the lack of Cat dealers is far more magnified in Canada vs the USA, plus if I’m not mistaken some of  the USA dealers offer more than one sled manufacture - which if you can support that instead, why not….especially since I thought Cat moved towards only building what was ordered a few years ago vs. flooding the market with inventory just because. 

I can’t see them going the way of the dodo bird either and it really makes sense for CF to make the purchase.  

Arctic Cat followed the big store model and push huge inventories on little dealers.  They wanted big showrooms and lots of accessories   Local dealer at cottage was dropped because of space for retail.   And he couldn’t take the volume of sleds they wanted to push.   Unfortunately I think the small dealer is way that industry needs to go for service coverage in some areas.

2020 into 2021 was a good winter though. I did almost 2000 kms barely used trailer. Since then I don't think I have been over 400 kms a year 🤣.