GlennCauley, you are right on the money ! Serpent is a company that produce race cars, due to the competitive nature of the game, they are forced to keep improving their designs. Occasionally there will be designs that do not live up to the hopes of the creators (this happens in real life as well, anyone remember the 6 wheel Tyrell F1 car that was a great design but did not have tire technology to support it...?) But this is simply the nature of the game. Maybe I am extreme, but when I go to a bigger race I really like to come with a new built car that represents the latest technology, so for me I'd welcome a new car release every 12 months. Locally, I still race my old impulse pro, that car has now become a durability test car, it has 2 full seasons on it and is incredibly worn, still it keeps up with many of the more modern cars on a local level. Keep your old cars and race them as much as you want to, nothing wrong with that, but stop hacking on a company that is trying to develop new and better machines for us to play with. This happens in real racing and it will surely happen here too. It's called progress. If we had no progress, we would still be driving 2WD 1/8 scale cars with 1 HP engines, single speed transmissons and no suspension other than chassis flex. How much fun would that be... Really....