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Originally Posted by Moose
Sure the B4 is still great but it is by far not the number one car which it was for average racers. Five years back there were 95% Associated cars in european races. Today there is 1%.
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Perhaps then there lies the actual problem: The B4 chassis line is absolutely brilliant, but after all those years the majority of it's design doesn't feel special, new, fresh like all those new releases we've had for the last 2 years. It's not because it's bad or ugly, it's just because it's something 95% of the drivers got used to working on over all these years. If all of a sudden all these new cars start showing up, no wonder all those drivers are interested in what these new cars are like.
And indeed, then the B4.2 won't make all those people step back to the brand. I think they're past that point though, no matter what they release: Going from 2 to 6+ 2WD buggy brands with a considerable market share* is something you don't recover from as a brand... unless a B5 would be as big a step ahead of the competition as the B4 was when it was first released. And I'm honest, I don't want a 2WD buggy being released that sweeps all the competitors off the market!
*Globally, I'm not taking dominanty used surface per region into account here for the market share.