If you're a music aficionado, upgrade to the Trax system for true stereo sound with separate left and right audio channels.
Our Elite system is a high quality intercom and helmet speaker wired mono for crystal clear voice communication. Our standard packages include headsets so check out the " California" packages if you would like helmet wiring kits to wire up your existing helmets or the " Builder" package if you are going to purchase new, custom wired helmets. Interested in two-way radio to talk out to other cars? Select the " Ultimate" Package. If you are looking for in car communications only, go with our " Supreme" Package. If you’re hunting down a reliable, strong-performing, thoroughly equipped ATV at a ridiculous price, it just doesn’t get any better than this.Communications. The VLX constitutes such good bang-for-the buck we don’t need to belabor its value. Although these wheels are cheaper than aluminum ones, they are tough and, with the current trend toward dark wheels on trucks and cars these days, they look very up-to-date. The counteracting upgrade is the use of aggressive-looking Carlisle TrailPro tires and black, styled steel wheels.
#Artic cat trax series
Instead, there’s a series of gear selection lights that tell you if you’re in Park, Neutral and Reverse and if your engine is overheating. The dash pod looks pretty bare with no instruments. There are a few other downgrades but they are counteracted by some upgrades. To be fair, Cat has tweaked its suspensions over the years and ride compliance is less of an issue than it once was. This meant stiffer shocks and a somewhat compromised ride compared to some of the plusher competition. Cat has recently gone to using swaybars on some of its models but the VLX doesn’t.įor many years they claimed using a swaybar interfered with the “independent wheel movement” of each individual A-arm. Hydraulic shocks with spring preload adjusters are used and there are no anti-swaybars. Ground clearance has always been a big deal with Cat and the VLX offers 11-inches of it and ten inches suspension travel at each wheel. The belt is turning even at idle so when the sprag kicks in theres minimal stress or potential for scuffing the drivebelt. Like the Yamaha Kodiak, this CVT uses a sprag clutch. Over the years we’ve had plenty of opportunity to ride the VLX’s ancestor, the XT 700, and we can tell you its selectable 4WD system is very good and its Duramatic CVT is well-thought-out and efficient. Value pricing shouldn’t mean reliability compromise and the VLX has the potential to be as tough as an M1A2 Abrams Tank. Cloud, Minnesota and there are thousands of them out there. This H1 EFI-equipped engine is assembled in Cat’s own state-of-the-art engine plant in St. Its torque-blessed 695cc SOHC single is a strong, proven engine that generates plenty of grunt and decent top speed. This platform is still in use in Cat’s lineup with the big-inch 1000 XT V-twin and both Mud-Pro models, the 1000 and 700 Limiteds, so it would be wrong to call its underpinnings obsolete. It does, however, find its foundation in the most recent iteration of Arctic Cat’s former 700 chassis. The VLX 700 exceeds in so many categories and has a price so low ($5,999.00 USD, $7,199.00 CDN) it actually competes with the cost of ATVs two categories below it.Ĭertainly, the starting point doesn’t include Cat’s latest Alterra bodywork or mechanicals.
Obviously, Arctic Cat is listening because the product planners have come up with an ATV that brushes mighty close to the “too good to be true” category. Anyone driving a car (or truck), making mortgage payments and trying to put food on the table these days knows how important it is to squeeze value out of everything you buy.
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