When Ski-Doo released its Rotax 850 E-Tec engine, the snowmobile industry was placed on notice: You can increase performance without reducing rideability. For 2018 Ski-Doo again put the industry on notice that mountain sleds didn’t need to be one-dimensional: You can float through powder while bashing through bumps.
Basically, Ski-Doo realized that although the extreme terrain rider was looking for a snowmobile that could get him deep into the mountains, there was a segment of extreme riders who rode to extremes from the lowest of elevations to the highest.