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Innovation Is Our Tradition

We started by taming our toughest opponent -- snow. And created a new sport: snowmobiling. Then, we went looking for other challenges. Innovation isn't just a passion; it's our tradition.

We still proudly bear the name of our founder, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, who, in 1937, made history by introducing the first "snowmobile". Today, there are more than 7,600 of us in North and South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific who share this drive to innovate that is so apparent in all our vehicles and products.

Discover our history. Discover our tradition of innovation.

1989

In February 1989, Bombardier acquires the Pointe-Claire, Québec, assets and operations of the tracked vehicle division of the American company Universal Go-Tract, and those of Universal Go-Tract of Georgia Ltd in White, Georgia.

 

1988

Bombardier is the official supplier of grooming vehicles and snowmobiles for the Calgary Olympic Games.

In the spring 1988, the new generation of Sea-Doo personal watercraft is launched.

Bombardier establishes an equal partnership with a Finnish company and acquires snowmobile manufacturing facilities. Nordtrac Oy, sole snowmobile manufacturer in Finland having its management and operations concentrated in Rovaniemi, builds Lynx® snowmobiles designed especially for the European market. (Today the company is fully owned by Bombardier and named Bombardier-Nordtrac Oy.)

 

1984

Bombardier is the official supplier of tracked vehicles for the Sarajevo Olympic Games.

 

1981-82

The BR-400TM prototypes are introduced to the North American market.