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Arctic Cat Wildcat 1000i HO SxS
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Arctic Cat Wild Cat 1000i HO |
Barstow, CA (10/20/2011) -
In the competitive market of Side-by-Sides,
manufacturers are going all out to best one
another by continuously improving on their products
and adding new features, but occasionally a
new unit comes out that is a completely different
animal from all the rest, and this is just the
case with the 2012 Arctic Cat Wildcat 1000 SxS
/ UTV.
One trend we have noticed in the Side-by-Side
market is that the manufacturers have been greatly
improving on suspension components for these
machines and have been going in the direction
of more of an off-road truck or buggy type of
set up, and the Arctic Cat Wildcat 1000 is the
most advanced in this area of suspension development.
The design incorporates double A-arms in front,
which is typical, but the rear offers a 5-link
trailing arm that is different from what anyone
else is putting out and performs like it was
meant for Baja racing.
When Arctic Cat first introduced the Wildcat
1000 Side-by-Side a few months ago, we were
very impressed with its unique styling and suspension
and we were very eager to test ride one. Thankfully,
the folks at Arctic Cat didn’t make us
wait too long and we got our chance to see what
the 2012 Arctic Cat Wildcat 1000 SxS had to
offer this week in the desert just outside of
Barstow, CA.
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The
wide open deserts around Barstow, CA made
for perfect testing grounds for the 2012
Arctic Cat Wildcat 1000i HO SxS / UTV |
The area that was chosen for this test ride
was a widely used, 30 mile, desert racing style
course that offered plenty of terrain variations
including sharp rocks, elevation changes, sand
washes and wide open, whooped out sand roads.
It wasn’t the toughest test course that
Arctic Cat could have built in the brutal Bartow
desert area, but it provided ample opportunity
to test the Wildcat 1000 in typical riding conditions.
