When will Fanatec make a 10-12nm CSW DD?
With the competition making 9 and 12 nm pretty cheap now i feel Fanatec are falling behind with only having the 8 and 18nm bases, they need to have something in between and then the price! With Moza now rather attention grabbing i hope Fanatec have a plan to combat the competition.
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The plan is to announce products and take an eternity to bring them to market. Case and point, the QR2. If Fanatec mentions, announces and even shows a new wheelbase, don't expect it to get to the market until it's old news.
Fanatec chose to produce a DD as cheap as possible. Quality went out the window. The CSL DD is cheap as it is poorly engineered and underpowered - bent shafts that come loose etc. This doesn't make it good value - it just makes it cheap. This can't be fixed. People will buy them and instead of choosing to stay in the Fanatec ecosystem and upgrade to a higher quality Fanatec wheel they will be put off (poor support, delays etc) and will switch brands. Fanatec have managed to destroy their opportunity to become dominant market leaders. Halo products like the BMW and Bentley wheels won't help stop this - they only reinforce the impression of poor planning and failure to understand the market. I'm sure they have plans for a mid range DD but it is probably too late - the brand is tainted. The market has evolved and Fanatec have been left behind. Things like this happen all the time across various industries - the big incumbent gets swallowed by the small challengers.
all I wanted to say and more really... 👍️
Wow if this is really the market sentiment then it is a massive loss for Fanatec and the community also! I hope Fanatec make some smart decisions moving forward.
So i have to say i could not have put that better,A plus 5 kudos to theses two, mid you if i had posted it i would have been slammed lol so nicely put guy’s, just look at the secondhand market for Fanatec equipment people like myself have moved away to other manufacturers.
Hi Stephen,
to stay on topic of your question: the CEO Thomas teased a CS DD like product some time ago in another forum iirc. So my guess would be it is already in the works for quite some time and it won't take too long to get a proper announcement.
and it won't take too long to get a proper announcement.
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