That is why Ski-Doo makes four different MXZ packages. And depending on your budget and how you ride, one is perfect for you.

This isn’t a new concept that is fumbling through developmental stages to work out any kinks or flaws in an experimental design. This is a proven snowmobile that has pounded through some of the roughest Scandinavian trails over several decades and now is trying to break into a market that has been dominated by four manufacturers for the past 40 years.

When comparing the Arctic Cat ZR 8000 RR and the ZR 8000 Limited, the first thing you notice is they are two distinct snowmobiles. After all, the RR is green and the Limited is orange … talk about comparing apples and oranges.

But then you take a closer look, you realize both models feature the 8000 C-Tec2 794cc powerplant with identical features and both have APV with tuned pipe, pipe sensor and stainless-steel manifold and muffler. The fluid capacities are the same, clutches are the same. Both have 9-tooth, 2.86 pitch, involutes track drive sprockets. You get the impression that these sleds are basically identical twins.

This past winter we tried out a new app from onX Offroad that has helped us keep track of where we are during our rides. Simply put, this is one of the best apps we’ve found that is easy to use and very adaptable to collecting the information you may want to have during the course of a ride. And best of all, it stores the information on the cloud so you can retrieve your route from your computer later if you want to see exactly where you went.