CristianTabush

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I feel where you are coming from, unfortunately while we have flown the shorty battery flag for a while, the number one objection since day 1 is this feature of the car. When people saw this car at MHIC and when we leaked pictures on Social Media of this platform the interest immediately ramped up. We were told by numerous racers that in their eyes this was their "desire" for a car and that they definitely wanted to have part in running the car.

Trust me, I know what makes Gizmo the Gizmo. I struggled with the idea of releasing this car and it took a lot of convincing and brainstorming with guys like Adam (Syndrome) and Zac (thecaptain) to figure out what and how we wanted to handle this. Is the innovation coming from the dual drive train? Is it coming from the suspension? Is it coming from the fact that the car is "Crowd sourced development" and practically "crowd funded". Is the innovation the fact that this car is partly made in the USA, in my garage, on a tiny budget?

The decision was finally made to release this car because I asked myself, why does Gizmo exist? Why do I insist on being stubborn about releasing a product that practically makes me, as an individual no Money?

Well, the answers I came up with are the following:
1.I don't want to race any other car. (Maybe an Awesomatix, but after a month with it, it would probably have a lot of changes, because that's what I do. :P )
2.The car is FAST. Maybe it's because I designed it myself. (which contrary to people saying it's an A800 with shocks) and it suits me, however a lot of though has gone into the details of the development of the car. Arm lengths and positions have been changed numerous times, tower heights and bulkhead spacing have been fiddled with incessantly, almost obsessively, to find the right angles for the shocks to have the widest, yet most refined settings you need across most conditions. I guess the same can be said about the drive shaft angles. And the development there does not stop.
3.No other brand gives you access to the designer and the development as we give at Gizmo. I listen to every one of our customers and even our non-customers. While not everything can ever be integrated into a generation of a kit, I can't even begin to think how many ideas have been put into a car like on this one. For example, Adam wanted more weight balance countersink holes on the chassis, for screw on weights. All our new cars come with strategically placed weight holes through out the chassis. Something that we thought was good does not work? We'll admit to it and change it, no spin like others, just fix it and move on.
4.For those that still want the center motor car, we can still service them. The dual spur itself will not see much development, but the few changes down the line that are coming, will apply to all platforms. Some suspension geometry revisions have been done lately which we feel make a marked improvement will likely make it into future versions once durability is tested for long enough. In the end, like Adam said, this is the same car with 2 drive train layouts. Chose which one works best for you and which one you like the most. It's pretty simple. I do think that for certain conditions, the big battery car is more adequate. For example, larger Euro style tracks where Low CG lipos are not run in spec classes.
5.This car has a larger audience. I don't long to sell a massive amount of kits and become rich off of this. But it would be nice to be able to sell enough units to keep the platform developing. This is a SMALL market. Our car is a Niche car. If I can attract more users, it will allow us to keep developing the brand. If we don't, we simply will stop producing them. We only sell about 30-40 units per year. It would be nice try to double that.