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Santa Claus is Coming to Town
with Polaris Youth ATVs

If not for a binding employment contract with Rudolph and the crew, Santa Claus would probably have ditched his reindeer for a Polaris ATV years ago...

  The ATV has evolved into a Polaris All-Terrain Pickup
Imagine if the Aussie man-on-the-land designed his perfect vehicle. It might combine the versatility of a ute with the go-anywhere of a 4WD ATV...
     
Polaris Way Out Rides for ATV owners
Owners of ATVs can go on organised trail rides without bothering about two-wheelers,
under a new initiaitive by Polaris...
  Polaris jumps further ahead with 2005 Sportsman ATVs
The world’s best selling automatic ATV, the Polaris Sportsman, has just been dramatically
upgraded....
     
Polaris Way Out Ride a hit with ATV owners
Owners of ATVs have welcomed the new Polaris trail days, the Way Out Rides.
The first event, staged at the weekend near Dargaville, attracted more than 70 ATV
riders for a day of back-country riding...
  Polaris Way Out Ride at Te Awamutu
Farmers, family groups, weekend trail riders, hard-out sport riders … all kinds of ATV
owners are expected at Oparau near Te Awamutu next weekend for the latest Polaris
Way Out Ride....
     
Polaris shows the way out at Fieldays
Surely the most diverse range of farm vehicles at Fieldays next week will be on the Polaris
stand.
As well as numerous different models of ATV four-wheeler the US brand will display a
subtle variation, the ATP all-terrain pickup...
  Polaris Sportsman thrives in hellish conditions
When the going gets tough, they don’t come more rugged than logging crews in the New
Zealand forest.
Phil Hansen and his men rely on a Polaris Sportsman for what must be some of the
heaviest work demanded of this impressive ATV anywhere in the world...
     
Polaris Magnum ATVs work hard for Council
A Polaris ATV specially built for our conditions is proving a daily success at the Auckland Regional Council.
Beaches and parks in the Waitakeres and on the West Coast are served by two Magnum 500 ATVs, the model developed for Kiwi conditions...
 

Tested : Polaris Ranger off-road utility vehicle
At first I thought the $16,395 ($14,573.33 plus GST) Polaris Ranger TM was neither fish,
flesh nor fowl. It's clearly not an ATV as we know it. Equally clearly it's not a normal ute.
But it combines some of the more useful attributes of both, as I was soon to discover...

     
Polaris 500 Magnum 4WD works hard in NZ
Given a range of Polaris ATVs to play with I initially preferred the 700 Sportsman - big,
powerful yet tractable.
But eventually I found myself spending more time on the 500 Magnum, the ATV the US
company developed especially for down-under conditions - it's sold only in NZ and
Australia...
  Polaris ATP 330 rugged and impressive
Think ATVs and most immediately think farming. Four-wheelers laden with dogs, tools,
trailers and other workaday accoutrements, and slogging slowly through countryside
muck.
Petrolheads might also have encountered the hard core sports machines...
     
Joblin at Wairoa is Dealer of Year
Chris Joblin Motors of Wairoa has been named New Zealand’s Polaris Dealer of the Year and recognised at a huge international event in USA.
Chris Joblin received the presentation in Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, where 650 international Polaris dealers packed the Radisson Hotel for a glittering awards ceremony...
  New! 2004 Polaris Youth ATVs
Youngsters love things that are fresh, new and exciting – which is exactly what Polaris has delivered with its 2004 Youth ATV lineup.
The Youth ATV lineup has been virtually reinvented as every model is significantly different from last year – fresh and new for the kids! – and all three models feature improvements to enhance youngsters’ ATV riding experience...
     
A half-century of success for Polaris
Polaris has kicked off several months of worldwide celebrations, marking its 50th anniversary.
In the US celebrations will be held at the brand’s birthplace, Roseau, Minnesota and a worldwide extravaganza will take place in St. Paul at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in July...
  A party 50 years in the making
“If Polaris made a beer, I’d be drinkin’ it …..”
An off-the-cuff comment from a typical Polaris customer sums up the enthusiasm evident
at the company’s 50th anniversary celebration in Minnesota...
     
Polaris All-Terrain Pickup Wins 2004 ATV of the Year Award
Polaris Sales Australia today announced that its All-Terrain Pickup (ATP) was named “ATV of the Year” by ATV Magazine...
   

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