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Arctic Cat |
Arctic Cat are
one of the world's four big makers of the
snowmobile; a vehicle designed to travel over snow and ice. Most
snowmobiles are still powered by two-stroke engines, but Yamaha and
Arctic-Cat were the first to mass produce four-stroke models, which are
significantly less polluting than the early two stroke machines.
Snowmobiles are supported and moved by one or two endless caterpillar tracks, similar to
those used on military tanks, except that they are of a much lighter
construction. The driver steers using handlebars that control ski-like runners
on the front of the vehicle, also by moving his body weight. Snowmobiles can
achieve speeds in excess of 110 km/h (68 mph). Racing snowmobiles reach speeds
in excess of 260 km/h (160 mph).
Canadian, Joseph-Armand Bombardier is reckoned to be the
father of the snowmobile, although the first snow-machine patent was said to
have be issued in1927, to Carl. J. Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin, USA. Bombardier's
"snowmobile" of the type of machine that we know today was
developed in
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