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Originally Posted by Hpi_guy
If that were the case I think it's because they don't have any race spec gear apart from the blitz ESE and their biggest selling point which is the savage hasn't really changed in the 10 or so years, only a few variations and changes, they havent released a new model since the baja, sure there have been a couple but they havent really taken off, personally I honk they should release a range of race spec cars.
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You only need to check HPI USA website to see there are minimum of 25 recent products listed in the new cars section and 47 different car products available... none of those are 10 years old? in fact none of those are 2 years old and they are all aimed at general consumers over racers!
Racing is a very small market compared to the bashers/general consumers market across the worldwide r/c car industry and the racing market in USA has been dominated by Team Associated and Losi for several decades with heavily loyal supporters.
Sure i've seen 5% mentioned for size of race market compared to general consumer market, that may just be in UK though.
You can't use an opinion based on the UK market and our product preferences to guess at how a company performs in a country something near 40 times larger!
Sad to think that the big established companies are being hit badly but facts are there is a global economic issue and hobbies/toys are luxuries.
I wouldn't have thought the Ken Block license was cheap, they've been really pushing that one to the world, certainly can't knock their marketing!