So after reading this article I had to go home and pick up the copy in which the Phazer is featured. I had skimmed over it and read what I wanted when I first got it, skipping over the Phazer article.
So anyways, I go home and read the article and I'm pretty sure i nthe first paragraph or two they mention the snow conditions and what terrain they were riding it in. If you read that and kept that in the back of your mind the guys writing these articles didn't do a bad job, infact they were pretty good in relaying the facts about the sled.
They said it was heavy when stuck, fun, nimble, great 80hp sled. Because that's what it is. No it's won't highmark with a 800......and they didn't say it would. If you were interested in buying the Phazer, given the conditions they rode it in, I think they gave us a pretty fair article about that sled. Of course if they had a long term test sled opinions would change somewhat and the article would be twice the size. And I'm sure the negatives about the sled would come out. Like the snow build-up etc etc.
But for how long they had it for......I think it was a fair representation of the sled.
