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Originally posted by Boudy
Jim: I'll have to disagree that a car should be run exactly as advertised without any modifications to equal the field. Your thinking won't yeild the best handling car, only the car that has a higher entry point to the customer. Many vendors offer lower priced cars and leave the owner with options to upgrade.
Your method penalizes a manufacturer on terms of how well the chassis handles based on entry level price point. That is no indication of handling, which we are out to determine here.
Boudy
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Boudy,
(First, please do not take this post as critical of you or your product. It applies to all manufacturers equally. And you are the one who made the post that I am quoting. Therefore, you’re it.)
I understand your point about an "ENTRY LEVEL" car.
However, you advertise your car at "X" price point. I do not see you posting a disclaimer that this car is in any way inferior and needs upgrades to perform well.
Matter of fact, I have never seen any manufacturer state this in their literature or on their websites. (I could be wrong about this, I really do not spend much time looking at other cars of this type.)
I feel that my point is quite simple, everyone needs to run the car that they sell to the public as a “STANDARD” offering.
You know, the product in their ads that proclaim “Rolling Chassis 25,900.00” or “complete kit 12,999.00”, or “STAGE III COMPONENT ROADSTER, 42,500.00”.
After all, price is one of the major things that folks look at first. BDR certainly has used price point as their main entry strategy into the market. So did FFR. So does just about everyone else. Price is the major factor in setting the various offerings competitive point in the replica market.
Therefore, I feel that it only proper that everyone run the car that defines their competitive position in the marketplace.
If one were to run modified cars, where is the truth in advertising in that?
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