Ski - Doo - wikipedia Ski - Doo This article is about the brand. For snowmachines in general, see snowmobile. For other uses, see Skidoo ( disambiguation ). Ski - Doo XRS 800 Look up Skidoo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ski - Doo is a brand name of snowmobile manufactured by Bombardier Recreational Products ( originally Bombardier Inc. before the spin - off ). The Ski - Doo personal snowmobile brand is so iconic, especially in Canada, that it was listed in 7th place on the CBC 's The Greatest Canadian Invention list in 2007. Ski - Doo also has its own range of snowmobile suits. History The first Ski - Doo was launched in 1959. It was a new invention of Joseph - Armand Bombardier. The original name was Ski - Dog, but a typographical error in a Bombardier brochure changed the name Ski - Dog to Ski - Doo. The first Ski - Doos found customers with missionaries, trappers, prospectors, land surveyors and others who need to travel in snowy, remote areas. The largest success for the snowmobile came from sport enthusiasts, a market that opened the door to massive production of snowmobiles. This popularity led to skidoo ( sometimes ski - doo ), with the derived verb skidooing ( or ski - dooing ), becoming the traditional generic term for snowmobile in much of Canada. In early 2016 Ski - Doo announced that they are releasing an all new snowmobile engine and chassis. Most of the 2 stroke engines from Ski - Doo as well as its competitors mainly featured 800cc motors ( for the newer snowmobiles ). Ski - Doo announced that in its new line of model year 2017 snowmobiles, they would have an 850cc motor. That motor ( the Rotax 850 E-Tec ) was designed with an all new chassis, not designed separately. The new motor and chassis makes the snowmobile more agile, responsive and powerful. Ski - Doo named this new chassis / motor combination `` Gen - 4 '' and released it in several different models ( Summit, MXZ, and Renegade ). References Jump up ^ `` BRP Heritage ''. BRP. Retrieved November 25, 2017. Jump up ^ Bassett, Jerry ( July 1, 2007 ). `` Rants and Raves Ten Sleds that Shaped the Sport : Off-Road.com ''. snowmobile.off-road.com. Retrieved 7 October 2014. Jump up ^ `` De 1959 à 1964 : La motoneige Ski - Doo '' ( in French ). Musée J. Armand Bombardier. Archived from the original on April 1, 2012. Jump up ^ `` 1959 to 1964 : The Ski - Doo snowmobile ''. Musée J. Armand Bombardier. Retrieved 7 October 2014. Jump up ^ `` Bombardier Ltd : Case Report ''. Strategic Management, California State University, Hayward. 1997. Retrieved 7 October 2014. Jump up ^ `` An American 's Guide to Canada : Canadianisms ''. americansguide.ca. Retrieved 7 October 2014. Jump up ^ Nadasdy, Paul ( 2011 ). Hunters and Bureaucrats : Power, Knowledge, and Aboriginal - State Relations in the Southwest. UBC Press. p. 273. ISBN 978 - 0 - 7748 - 4041 - 5. External links ski-doo.com Ski - Doo Forums Ski-Doo.com : Ski - Doo Snowmobile model history Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ski-Doo&oldid=832855906 '' Categories : Bombardier Recreational Products Snowmobiles Tracked vehicles Vehicles introduced in 1959 1959 in Quebec Hidden categories : CS1 French - language sources ( fr ) Talk About Wikipedia Davvisámegiella Français Norsk Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 28 March 2018, at 10 : 50. About Wikipedia

Question: when was the first ski doo snowmobile made
Answer: 1959