50 inch Wildcat

Here is a pic of the 50 inch wildcat due out 4 quarter of 2014. Sounds like it will be out some time towards this time next year. Pretty good pic. You can tell its smaller than the regular cats.  

Yea I seen the video on it a while back but I have read that Arctic Cats 4 quarter is in February and it would be out in March so we will see.If it rides better than the RZR S I had I would buy one.

Bobby D wrote:

Yea I seen the video on it a while back but I have read that Arctic Cats 4 quarter is in February and it would be out in March so we will see.If it rides better than my RZR S I would buy one.

Oh ok. I had no idea when their 4th q is. Time will tell. Hope ride is not sacrificed. Either way I think it will do alot better than the 50 inch rzr's. Polaris may need to go back to the drawing board.   

I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but why on earth does anyone want a 50" machine?  I just don't understand that.  I always get thru any road I want to travel on in my cat.  Sometimes its real tight but I go thru or over ,up or down to get by, but  I hardly ever see a place that tight.  I would be flipping or turning over something 50" wide all the time where I prefer to ride.  I see a lot more narly places that are so steep or so sideways a goat would by pass it by choice when he can , than I do  places I am to wide.

2fast wrote:

I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but why on earth does anyone want a 50" machine?  I just don't understand that.  I always get thru any road I want to travel on in my cat.  Sometimes its real tight but I go thru or over ,up or down to get by, but  I hardly ever see a place that tight.  I would be flipping or turning over something 50" wide all the time where I prefer to ride.  I see a lot more narly places that are so steep or so sideways a goat would by pass it by choice when he can , than I do  places I am to wide.

Well It would not be 50" wide after I add after market wheels and tires and most trails are wide enough for the 64" machines but I ride some tight trails that I could go much faster if I had a narrower machine like I had when I owned a 50" RZR.I'm not into extreme riding like climbing steep off camber stuff or rock crawling I would rather be able to run faster in the tight trails.Different strokes for different folks I only bought the Wildcat because of the suspension travel and ride quality so if the 50" gives me a ride quality between the S & my current Wildcat I would be ok with that to have a maybe 54" machine with aftermarket wheels & tires.

Some trail systems have a 50" restriction , just not any that I can think of that we ride around here .

I bought a 50" machine for two reasons. 1. it was inexpensive, and having never even ridden in an utv, I didn't want to spend a lot of money and possibly hate it.  2. I have a 60" wide trailer  :)

All I have heard of the 50" wide cat is that it's smaller and has a 700cc engine.

Those replys makes some sense out of it. I guess it is true different strokes for different folks.

50" wide in Utah is great!

Come on artic cat bring on the 50 inch cat

After having the rhino 450 with aftermarket wheels and 10" wide front tires and the rzr s, I am a whole lot faster on most of the trails I run in my Rhino sport with factory wheels.  56" wide doesn't sound much narrower than 60.5", but let me tell you I fly through tight places at 25-30 mph that I used to have to crawl at 3 mph in the wider machines.  My style of riding is like Bobby's, I'm not much into rock crawling in my sxs, that's what I have my Toyota for.  No where near enough ground clearance on any sxs to do the trails I do in my truck, so I figure why even bother.

At slow speeds, my rhino rides rougher than my rzr s did, but when I'm running hard, I can't see a whole lot of diference.

After owning a rzr s and 2 rhinos, I've figured out what I like and don't like for my type of riding.  I will give up some sidehill and long sweeping turn stability for quick responsive handling, and speed through the tight woods.  I also prefer the engine be closer to the center of the machine, not over the rear wheels.  I like oversteer as I can deal with that.  Understeer scares the hell out of me really bad, and the rzr s had a ton of it.  It would not turn at all until you hit the brakes, and/or mash the gas.  I like how the rear of the rhino is just a little loose, and it always turns quickly at the turn of the steering wheel. 

Speaking of the rzr.  If I were to build one tomarrow, it would be the 50" with the XP900 engine swapped in.  And, all the bushings and balljoints would be replaced by heim joints so I could ride the damb thing instead of work on it every 200 miles.

The 50" cat would be awsome for our trails.  Really nice if it somehow ends up with a 80" wheelbase, and 10-12" of travel.

I was hoping it would have the 1000cc motor

bubba53 wrote:

I was hoping it would have the 1000cc motor

That would be the Bubba Cat " Hey Ya watch this " ... 

60.5 " still fits in the back of my truck. Just wish I could get the 900 or 1000 in 60.5" as at times it was really nice to take just the truck.

That's right

rzr-ron wrote:

60.5 " still fits in the back of my truck. Just wish I could get the 900 or 1000 in 60.5" as at times it was really nice to take just the truck.

I still ask myself why I bought a 60" wide trailer. Most utv's with upgrade tires are 60-65 wide.