[Darren Boyle]

Grelland, if you get a Chinese company to make a product of the same quality it tens to cost about the same, the main reason why people move production there is to save money, but as a whole the quality does tend to suffer, no PR BS here mate

To agree with Chazz's statement about the bits that break on our car ebing the AE, sadly it is true, the "vast" majority of all breakages on our X6 casr are always the parts that are made form AE and since the TT group have owned them and moved production to China there has been a "noticable drop" in quality as noticed by nearly every racer who runs a B4 or X6.

Nobody at X-Factory or representing X-factory is talking down AE, without them as you say our car is nothing, I am also prepared to agree that their parts form a lot of the "front" of our car (which is bound to hit more things and break more parts - agreed) we are just stating which is a fact that WE put a lot of effort into our parts to make tham as durable as can be and when you see one of our cars break it is 99 times out of 100 an AE part which has broke. We are proud of our quality and believe that if WE moved production to China to make the products cheaper it would be at the sacrifice of quality (as has been proven with the latest batch of Losi and AE parts - from China, they just plain and simnple arent as good) which is somthing we are not prepared to do.

I agree with you also 100% about your statemnt "Made in the USA", NO it does not GUARRENTEE quality, YES many parts still made in the USA are POOR and YES the "Made in USA" tag does not wash at all here in Europe, BUT by our parts being "Made in the USA" it gives us full control over them, a chance to liase fully with the tooling companies and injection moulding people, witness production first hand and make changes along the way if we feel the need to, to maintian the high standards I am talking about.

Now I hope you dont consider my comments as PR BS (LOL) and I think my best defence is the proof in the quality of our parts out there today on thousands of our converted cars. It is very rare that we get complaints on our parts and very rare we hear stories from customers who broke blaming an X part for this, my proof is in the hands of the satisfied public

Best Wishes,

Darren