Well +2 and raining here in KW, thankfully no freezing rain so far as much as I hate to see the snow melt id rather have rain than freezing rain 

Hopefully it's not a twin built by Suzuki. That thing sounded like an antique tractor. lol

I bet you see a Turbo 858 from Cat.     It was ready to be launched just before the Textron implosion.      My buddy is a Cat dealer in Quebec and he got a lot of R&D stuff sent to him to air freight to the Natives way up north in Quebec to test as they have good snow until the end of May most years.    He had an 858 to test 4 years ago.    There are some serious go-fast guys way up north on the Rez in Quebec.     He also told me that there is an 1100 4 stroke ready to go to replace the 998 but there is only so much money available to release new products.  

Unfortunately we are seeing what a lack of competition leads to.  It’s a weak economy.  They know there is a limited set of folks that will buy new.  Very good chance those sales are occurring regardless of whether they introduce anything flashy new or not.  So they just fixed their weaknesses in their lineups.  New software for the guage.  Motor upgrade to compete with the Polaris 650.  And an update on the utility lineup.  Polaris did the same expanding already offered suspension options to more of their lineup.  Hopefully arctic cat shakes things up, but I suspect they are a year away from doing that.

Love this set up....but the price is kinda rude. No bags added so one could plan on another 500 bucks just for some asorage.