Quote Originally Posted by Mr. KiDD
And stateside would only make it worse, the only way to stay competitive is to stay OVERSEAS.

USA CANNOT COMPETE with Chinese manufacturing and labor. Sorry.

It would NOT surprise me to see APex, Gre dy, HKS, Tanabe, and others go belly up this year, theyve had it coming for a long time
While I sortof agree. And sortof disagree. Doesn't change the scene overall, just...hits the "reset" switch. We're very close to 1975 right now, well before any of these companies existed, and well before the scene was big enough to need people like this. We may see a reset entirely and new companies coming up through the ranks as people go back to doing things the old fashioned, hard way. The big problem lately is that companies LIKE Trust aren't really making things people want to buy. This isn't 2001, we need something serious when it comes to stuff like this.

And while Mike's right that Knockoffs aren't what killed them, it sure didn't help.