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F N CUDA
Thats what I was thinkin
Where is any manufacturers ALL NEW chassis?
All of them just refine bits and pieces and call them blah blah '16 '17 '18...
Cool if F1 is not your thing but Tamiya's F1 is full redesign.
XRAY? Nope. same X1 '15 '16 '17 and now '18 with some tweeks for sure but just sayin 4 years of tweekin, all good. I run it as well as Tamiya's.
Hell, Tamiya even called theirs X1 first
Not a thing wrong with the new XR, pretty fresh and definitely competitive any level.
As far as USA pricing change, WTF IS UP WITH THAT?
How about Serpent or Mugen?
Or Capricorn?
Xray. Well, they "optimise".
Jokes aside, Tamiya has been very slow to adopt innovations that had proved themselves useful and performant.
Sure, the 419XR may look modern, but that is only because it has finally caught up with things others had locked in their designs years before. That doesn't make it modern, it makes it five years too late.
Xray can be made fun of, but they do listen to the customer more than any other company I can think of. Which sells their kits. People literally ask for things and they get them in the next Xray. Not so with Tamiya. Tamiya seems to want us to buy what they want to sell us. Back to marketing 101. One would be excused for thinking Tamiya wants tell the customer they know better. Fine, but you need to have the competitive results to back this up. I'll leave it up to you to decide if that stacks up. Or maybe it does in Japan and they don't care about the rest.