Ski-Doo


Ski-Doo is a brand name of snowmobile manufactured by Bombardier Recreational Products. The Ski-Doo personal snowmobile brand is so iconic, especially in Canada, that it was listed in 17th place on the CBC's The Greatest Canadian Invention list in 2007.
Ski-Doo also has its own range of snowmobile suits.

History

The first ever Ski-Doo was launched in 1959. It was a new invention of Joseph Armand Bombardier. The original name was Ski-Dog, NY but a typographical error in a Bombardier brochure changed the name Ski-Dog to Ski-Doo.
The first Ski-Doos found customers with missionaries, trappers, prospectors, land surveyors and others who need to travel in snowy, remote areas. The largest success for the snowmobile came from sport enthusiasts, a market that opened the door to massive production of snowmobiles. This popularity led to skidoo, with the derived verb skidooing, becoming the traditional generic term for snowmobile in much of Canada.
In early 2016 Ski-Doo announced that they are releasing an all new snowmobile engine and chassis. Most of the 2 stroke engines from Ski-Doo as well as its competitors mainly featured 800cc motors. Ski-Doo announced that in its new line of model year 2017 snowmobiles, they would have an 850cc motor. That motor was designed with an all new chassis, not designed separately. The new motor and chassis makes the snowmobile more agile, responsive and powerful. Ski-Doo named this new chassis/motor combination "Gen-4" and released it in several different models.