I'm largely with Bormac here.....
I have to say that I think this is a big shame. I can understand the commercial rationale from a strictly financial perspective, but goodwill (being a key ingredient of a company's value) for a company is not all about margins. It's also about a brand and celebrating one of the most successful eras for Schumacher (i.e. late 80's) would be a strong/the best way (a way tried and tested by many companies before) to celebrate and uphold their iconic racing brand.
I see that someone in this thread previously quoted car manufacturers. Well Ford have done this with the GT40, VW have done it with the Beatle, and BMW have done it with the mini. Morgan continue to make the car that made them famous decades ago. All of these are celebrations of previous icons on which the relevant companies were built and are deliberately to a large extent manufactured for the purpose of maintaining heritage/prestige/brand of the relevant companies.
I wonder if, rather than doing a re-re, Schumacher could utilise those tools which they still have in order to manufacture spares for their old cars. That way, they save on the investment of rebuilding past tools which no longer exist but allow people to source a number of parts for their old cars thus allowing the commercial market to maintain the brand, from a heritage perspective (to some extent, at least!).
I know that they are still able to produce some products for their cars of the late 80's, although I can't say how many....just seems a no-brainer to me (no investment required by Schumacher other than raw materials to make the parts - they'd easily cover their costs with a healthy margin on the rrp for such parts)...
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