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Article: The trail champ: Polaris' new Sportsman 700 rides like a dream. (Wheels Afield).
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- Petersen's Hunting
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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Polaris wasn't the first maker to pull a two-cylinder sport-utility four-wheeler out of its hat, having been preceded by Kawasaki. But it made up for that by giving its new 2002 Sportsman 700 Twin the biggest engine on the market.
The Sportsman 700's primary claim to fame is its all-new 683cc twin-cylinder four-stroke engine. It's big-- insofar as cubic centimeter displacement is concerned--yet the engine was intelligently engineered to be roughly the same size configuration as a single-cylinder powerplant. Furthermore, the pistons move together with one firing pulse every 360 degrees, and the single counterbalance shaft makes the engine theoretically 100 percent ...
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