Please guys let's remember what we are doing here -- building the lightest fastest car we can. There are trade-offs all over the place.
For example, we could make the chassis with far more carbon in the plastic than we do. The chassis would then be lighter and stiffer, both good things, but it would also be more brittle.
We could make it of "plastic," which uses fiberglass reinforcing instead of carbon. This is not as stiff and heavier, both bad things, but the part would be less brittle.
Again let's remember what we are doing, racing at what are really absurdly high speeds, then hitting things.
So we build a light, stiff, somewhat brittle car, drive it at phenominal speeds, jump in the air, and hit things. Hmmm.
We sell a few chassies here and there, but it's not a big deal. For all three of our cars, the chassis is one of the slowest-selling parts. Most of our smaller dealers don't carry them in stock at all. From what we can tell, we have no more than the usual amount of chassis breakage. We will be out at the molding shop in L.A. right after the Shoot-Out, and will investigate several ideas on the chassis.
We actually have a problem at X Factory that we do not sell enough parts. Selling parts is the most profitable part of the busniess, and our parts sales, compared to Kit sales, are low. What this means is that, compared to other manufacturers, our parts in general don't break...
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