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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Polaris Industries page on 22 April 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Polaris Industries is an American manufacturer of snowmobiles, ATV, and neighborhood electric vehicles. Polaris is based in Roseau, Minnesota, USA. The company also manufactures motorcycles through its Victory Motorcycles subsidiary and through the Indian Motorcycle subsidiary which it purchased in April 2011. Polaris no longer produces watercraft.
Robin (a subsidiary of Subaru Corporation) previously developed and supplied all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and snowmobile engines for Polaris Industries Inc. Starting in 1995 with the Polaris Magnum 425 4-stroke ATV and in 1997, with the introduction of the "twin 700" snowmobile engine Polaris started the development and production of in-house produced power plants, known as the "Liberty" line of engines, now found in many models across their current production lines. Since that time Polaris has continued to develop their in-house engine production capacity, now designing and manufacturing all of their own power plants, while maintaining the partnership with Subaru.
In 2010 Polaris relocated a portion of its utility and sport vehicle assembly to Mexico. Components manufactured in Osceola, Wisconsin and the vehicle assembly in Roseau, Minnesota. The vast majority of powertrain and vehicles for the off-road line are manufactured in the Osceola and Roseau facilities, respectively. Both the Victory and Indian motorcycle brands are American made with complete powertrains and vehicle assembly located in Osceola, Wisconsin and Spirit Lake, Iowa, respectively.
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McHenry Township Fire Protection District Photo ©2017 Bill Crittenden View photo of McHenry Township Fire Protection District Polaris ATV - 3.3MB |
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McHenry Township Fire Protection District Photo ©2017 Bill Crittenden View photo of McHenry Township Fire Protection District Polaris ATV - 4.1MB |
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| 10 April 2015 | Notification of Proposed Production Activity, Polaris Industries, Inc., Subzone 167B (Spark-Ignition Internal Combustion Engines); Osceola, Wisconsin | Federal Register: Foreign-Trade Zones Board (Andrew McGilvray) |
| 1 March 2016 | Costco Auto Program Provides Additional Limited-Time Savings on Top Polaris Models | Costco Auto Program |
| 14 July 2016 | LotVantage Selected by Polaris as Strategic Social Media Partner | LotVantage |
| 14 April 2017 | Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 167--Brown County, Wisconsin, Notification of Proposed Production Activity, Polaris Industries, Inc., (Spark-Ignition Internal Combustion Engines), Osceola, Wisconsin | Federal Register: DoC (Andrew McGilvray) |
