Show Snazzy Snowmobiles RESTING Sportsmen in the market for a new snowmobile are going to have an easier time making up their minds this season-if for no other reason than the fact that there are fewer on the market to choose THAT IS today there are fewer trade names on the Once numbering more than there are now less than two dozen The remaining manufacturers have repositioned their various models to broaden the selection in price and WITH less emphasis on more engineering and product improvement have been applied to trail For more manufacturers now offer a choice of either bogie-wheel or some of them adjustable so the Rain the best ride suit his riding style and the production costs have boosted prices on 1975 1 chances are you can find a but 1974 model for writes Recreational Vehicles Editor Jack Sports Fewer manufacturers mean more competition among fewer dealers and that results in some fallout benefits for the STRONGER and dealer networks are apt to provide better service and faster parts replacement-all to the good when your snowmobile is in need of Three outboard-motor manufacturers also build and this season they show their MERCURY Marine has more than doubled its involvement in the snowmobile business by increasing its line from three to seven The new offerings are a pair of trail sleds with slide-rail suspension and a pair of Snow-Twister performance sleds with free-air engines for sanctioned Power options for the four new sleds are and a BOTH Evinrude and Johnson Snowmobile Divisions of Outboard Marine Corporation again offer six models New in each line this season is a slide-rail engine replacing last year's wide-track Each continues to offer a pair of sleds with rotary combustion engines and three with conventional alternate-firing twin cylinder THERE would seem to be an obvious manufacturing and marketing compatibility between snowmobiles and But that segment of the industry seems jinxed by the complication some of them have with imports from Such is the unresolved predicament of American Honda which last year probed the market and had contemplated some modifications further testing this |