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15-20 years ago a lot of things were made in the US that are now made in China. Do you think AE would chooses to make things in China for the hell of it? It is much less expensive. That is why the cars AE sells today are no more expensive than the equivalent models sold 20 years ago. You should know this if you were involved that long ago. Chinese manufacturing is the reason that R/C modeling is as inexpensive as it is.[/QUOTE]

The price of injection machines have came down tremendously and is not that different to have parts made anywhere in the world these days. I don't see tremondous labour in these kits(not sure why you have even assembled some parts as in the end it seems they were assembled poorly). I can't say I know your business at all...all I can say is that my company produces product in every industrialized country in the world and for most components there is not a big difference in price unless you are raking the bottom of quality.

Regardless....great to be back owning an Associated after so long! Kudos to you guys for such a nicely engineered product.