Originally Posted by MarkA

+eleventybillion - Newer isn't always better, it's just newer and companies need to keep pushing product. Occasionally there are leaps forward such as cars with battery trays designed around lipos but in general, imo, design has been such a slow evolution that being a generation or two behind just means you're able to both draw off cheaper cars/parts and a wider knowledge base about the car in question.

I put small bore shocks on a car that came with bb's and it improved in every way. Feel, consistency and laptimes. A couple years from now, sb shocks might be sold separately as the "newest trick part" to, "...reduce your cars' weight, unsprung weight, cg and make it react faster..." Buy NOW, NOW, NOW! And, us oldtimers will just chuckle about it...