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Originally Posted by Chris Doughty
Neil, thanks for your reply, I'm glad you have found the sweet spot with your own car for your own driving.
I do disagree with your comment about the v2 being 'pfft' maybe for you on the tracks you race on you might prefer v1 parts to get the setup you like.
I personally use all the v2 parts (sometimes changing between LRC and HRC depending on track)
But during the development of the v2 one of the goals was to maintain compatibility with v1 parts for the very reason you desire.
It would have been a costly exercise if we were designing you a personal 2WD car.
But we are developing cars for a global market for lots of driving styles, lots of different tracks for lots of different kinds of tires being used. and the v2 parts are quite widely liked
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I owned a Dex210 and DEST210 RTR enjoyed them both and thought I improved as a driver with my 210,but both were sold due to lack of part support from Durango and too many changes at the head of the company.
Stockists cannot get parts or support from Revell or Durango and the recent shift they made by binning most "Team Drivers" and sticking to club racers isnt going to help as club racers dont want a car they cant get parts for.
It could be the most amazing car in the world but you wouldnt want to drive it for fear of breaking it and not getting a spare.
Even Tamiya who have no official UK dealer for the 1/10th race buggies have die hard supporters who ship parts in from Hong kong and Japan and can get spares quicker and easier than any Durango driver.
not hating at all
I liked Durango as a brand and as a car, but its hard to support something you cant fix, and even harder to get behind something that has no established "top team" to aid us mere mortals with setup advise and tips.
Schumacher gets this right as, they have loads of team drivers and every one of them pimps the brand and helps other drivers, and it encourages people to have faith in the brand.
Neal's "who cares" comment I believe was simply his way of saying that drivers have lost faith in the brand and it will take more than a new car to bring that faith back