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Originally Posted by MPWR
It is simply because they do not want to.
Or more accurately, because they do not believe that they can turn a viable profit doing so [... ]However you can be very sure that Tamiya believes that it does not make sound financial sense to put out new automotive kits. And until they believe otherwise, we simply will not see any more car kits from them.  |
I dont' really believe that their former rally releases didn't make money, even if the military market may be bigger than the automotive one...
But what is sure is that there are more competitors for plastic kit brand with diecast on the automotive market than there are in military, that may also be a reason why they concentrate on military.
That's really a pain because a lot of builders would appreciate a decent Xsara WRC, C4 WRC or Focus WRC under Tamiya standard, as some former cars like a Celica ST165 or ST205 (road car bases exists and they made the ST185)... etc