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the proof that winter is just an off-road racetrack waiting to be unlocked
means A motorized vehicle with skis at the front and a rubber track at the rear, built to carry one or two riders across snow.
from A 20th-century compound of plain English 'snow' plus 'mobile' (from Latin 'mobilis,' movable) — the same '-mobile' that gives us automobile. The machine itself owes much to Quebec inventor Joseph-Armand Bombardier, whose track-and-ski snow vehicles of the 1920s–30s made winter passable; the lighter personal version we picture today took off in the mid-20th century.
- speed record
- Exceeds 211 mph on flat snow
- origin
- Invented by a teenager in 1920s Quebec
- early name
- Bombardier first called it the snowmobile patent
- crossing seas
- Riders have jumped open water for stunts
- global fleet
- Over two million ridden across snowy nations
arctic cat — minnesota-based manufacturer producing snowmobiles since 1960, one of the two largest makers globally
bombardier ski-doo — quebec-based manufacturer dominating the snowmobile market with over 30% global market share
iron dog — 2,031-mile alaskan snowmobile race from anchorage to nome, held annually since 1971