Wow, between this tread and BRP not showing up at a rally, I surely hope it gets warm quick so we can all get out and ride instead of bashing a company that we love to ride with. As for price……… Sorry to be blunt, but this guy needs to go look at what a SXS costs right now. Yep $45K from $23K 4 years ago. You want one go buy it, if not don’t. Snowmobiles are now up to $21K from $11K 4 years ago. You want one go buy it. If not don’t. Four wheelers are now $15K from $7K 4 years ago. You want one go buy it. If not don’t. As for actual Spyder pricing, My 2017 RTL was listed at $26999. I didn’t pay that, but that was the listing 4 years ago. It has only jumped $2000. I’ll take that jump compared to the rest of the industry. Thats like nothing compared to everything else including cars and trucks. My diesel truck is now over $100K now and 4 years ago was $79K. Pricing on the spyder is fine and hasn’t changed very much. The rest of the video I skimmed through and I have a pretty good dealer so I’m not complaining. I am willing to drive or trailer it to the next good one 2 hours away too if needed. We’ve all had shady or poor service with repairs on everything we own. Simply don’t go back or find another location. We do it with purchasing cars, picking flying airlines etc. The solution is out there, you just have to find it. Waiting time………… Heck my son had a deer go through the windshield of his brand new truck last November. Guess what??????? Its still sitting at the repair center because of backorder parts and the many other cars and truck hit from deer last season. An average dealership sells a couple 1000 units a year between all the power sports, the spyder is only one of them. That means in 5-10 years thats 10000 units that will need repairs at one location. Power sports will always need repairs, thats the nature of the beast. Of course repair time is limited and pushed back because its not like you can take a SXS, wheeler, boat, snowmobile, jet ski, spyder anywhere, it needs to go back to that dealer because its a specialty item. Take your spyder to a ford dealer and see what they say if you need repairs. They’ll laugh and say sorry take it to the power sports place, we can’t touch it. How many power sport facilities are in each large area? 1 or 2 every 30-60 minutes apart. I’ve had every brand of powersports and every type too. (SXS, wheelers, jet skis, snowmobiles, motorcycles on/off, and even a small plane.) Sorry but BRP in general has been some of the best equipment I have ever owned. It’s their company, their decisions. Do you really think any company cares once its driven off the lot. If the machine is reliable enough to last 4 years that how powersports works. Average person trades, sells or destroys their powersports in 4 years and thats what industry banks on. Every industry has falsified their adds. Look at the new dumb commercials of the Chevy trucks bopping across the desert and highlands. Give me a stock Chevy truck in that commercial that they are promoting and let me try that. I bet the shocks fall off in the first 3 miles and the frame twists. Dodge and ford do it also. Give me one of those 550 supercharge motors and I’ll pull a 32’ boat with it up and incline. Bet it won’t work! Can am promotes in all their videos the skidoo mountain sled even though it shown a trail. People want to see the action but go for it, buy it and you’ll be surprised and complaining that yours didn’t hold up to the commercial. My wife is in productions and half the crap we see on TV is fake set up. What looks good on paper is not what works in real time. Why do they need to advertise when they they are already #1 in snowmobile, #2 SXS, #2 in jet ski, #2 in wheelers in world production. We simply choose to buy or not buy. BRP is not going anywhere. I can’t bash and will not bash BRP/ Can am division. The spyder is a heck of a good machine that almost all of us will agree is virtually bulletproof compared to other brands. Seriously, yes there have been blown up engines, stupid brake release problems, bad wire connections but as a whole it is one reliable machine so BRP/ Can am spyder did something right or we wouldn’t own it!
Rant over…. Come on warm days get her so we can get out and ride!
