Why are all good ATV brands Japanese?

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Only US brands I know of are Arctic Cat and Polaris and they both suck arse.

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Why do you say Polaris "sucks arse"?

do you consider Can Am to "suck arse" even though it's Canadian and not American?

The japanese have always made good vroom vroom shite. Their culture takes pride in craftsmanship and attention to detail.

It’s funny how diversified Japanese companies are too. Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha etc all have combinations of motorcycles, atvs, outboards, boats, and sometimes even cars especially Honda.

American companies never branched out like that. You don’t have Harley Davidson atvs or General Motors outboards. Kind of odd if you think about it

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have a honda foreman that is fugged right now only due to the oil drain plug/pan stripped

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Just rethread it it’s not hard and buy a new plug

look into TimeSert

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Honda

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Honda's competitive advantage has always been engine performance. They dominated small engines, which is why you see them have a presence throughout the ATV market. Motorcycles, ATVs, dirt bikes, boats, pressure washers, lawn mowers, etc, etc, etc all have something in common... a core competency in engines.
Honda then just applied that to cars, which are also primarily desirable due to high quality engines.

Suzuki & Yamaha are just competitors within that space, mostly due to proximity. This is not atypical in industry. There are numerous examples of global industries being concentrated in a specific region: Luxury cars in Italy, Performance cars in Germany, European watch manufacturers, American Trucks/muscle cars, Japanese forged golf irons, Italian purses, etc.

Specialization and reputation somewhat drive the self-fulfilling prophecy.

Not much different from the motorcycle market. Japanese mass produced motorcycles have been market leaders for a very long time.

Haven’t really messed w it yet and I’m not mechanically inclined neither

You don't need to be mechanically inclined to tap aluminum and put a copper insert in.


As for why American brands struggled, electronics. We can build great engines here. We can built great bearings. But, much like the Germans, or electrical engineering always seems lacking when applied offroad.

As the japanese brands push more and more component production outside of Malaysia and Japan, they are inviting more and more issues.

The brands that aren't, Suzuki, Kawasaki, anf Yamaha, all hold tiny percentages in market share.

The later model 800s were polaris' 300 honda. They were too well made.

And that is why they aren't made.