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Kawasaki produces motorcycles, Jet Skis and ATVs. Kawasaki's motorcycle include the Ninja sport bikes, and cruisers, dual-purpose and motocross motorcycles, as well as utility vehicles, ATVs and general-purpose gasoline engines. Kawasaki's "Jet Ski" has become a genericized trademark for any type of personal watercraft.
The Kawasaki 440, also called the T/A 440, is a Japanese twin-cylinder, in-line, two-stroke engine that was designed for snowmobiles and produced by Kawasaki Heavy Industries until the early 1980s. [1] The engine was widely adapted for other purposes, including ultralight aircraft and Formula 500 automobile racing.
John Deere was the trade name of snowmobiles designed and built by John Deere from 1972 to 1984. The initial design and testing phase came in 1970–1971, when engineers tested other popular snowmobiles, and found ways to improve them.
Jet Ski is the brand name of a personal watercraft (PWC) [1] manufactured by Kawasaki, [2] a Japanese company. [3] The term is often used generically to refer to any type of personal watercraft used mainly for recreation, and it is also used as a verb to describe the use of any type of PWC.
Tigershark is a defunct subsidiary of Arctic Cat that produced personal watercraft (PWC) from 1993 until 1999. [2] Tigershark PWCs were designed to be light, sporty and inexpensive, but early models had a reputation for poor build quality, and the brand suffered, despite significant improvements with the introduction of the 1997 models.
It was based on a motorcycle, replacing the wheels with skis and using a pump-jet for propulsion. It debuted in 1978, a few years after the Kawasaki Jet Ski, by Spirit Marine, a subsidiary of what is now Arctic Cat. [3] At rest, it resembles a sit-down jet ski. Gaining speed, it would eventually lift up on the skis and begin to plane.
By this point Jacobson was on his 7th prototype stand-up model. Kawasaki introduced the first production stand-up Jet Ski in 1973. In 1976 Kawasaki sent a letter of intent to end their agreement with Jacobson, which resulted in legal dispute and the loss of Kawasaki's licenses' exclusivity. [3] Yamaha:
Sno-Jet was a brand of snowmobile first produced in Quebec, Canada in 1965. They quickly proved popular and grew to be a well-selling line of snowmobiles until the early 1970s, helping usher the then-new sport of snowmobiling into Canada and the United States . [ 1 ]