NINCO Report

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[BRS Hobbies]

It's hard to read that report considering what NINCO used to be. It looks like they may just be testing the waters with the 1/43 race set.

Best regards,
Brian

[mikeinclover]

Never been a Ninco fan but I would really hate to see them go away. Seems like a lot of slot car companies are having trouble.
Mike

[slowshoes]

Very painful to read. I've always been a fan of the Ninco classics - except for the cobras, there just isn't anybody else doing them. (at least not as well). Sad to say it, but their slot car division seems to be circling the drain.

[Dangermouse]

I like Ninco cars - I thought they were good cars and quite tuneable - plus they made the best JGTC cars and I love their classic sports cars but it seems to me they have lost the plot. Why do they think there is a market for lexan type bodies?

and 1/43 - do we really need another player?

[gsmea]

I agree dangermouse. I love Ninco cars. Yes people joke about hop, but with TLC and a bit of tinkering they are my best racers.
This is sad news if they are going to do only vacuum bodies.

Gavin

[RazorJon]

lets see how they run, might make a good chassis for some other body?

[goosenapper]

[waaytoomuchintothis]

A few years back, Ninco doubled their prices and lost most of their sales. They stubbornly stuck with this idiotic plan, and lost even more. At the time, their rep here in the states was a creep who lied all the time, tried to do sneaky stuff with dealers and publishers... Just an awful guy. That also caught up with them. Meanwhile, those of us who predated all that craziness suddenly had to look askance at an old friend who used to be one of the top 4 producers of quality scale slot cars.

Carrera never did raise prices and became the heroes. Scaley did some strange things and raised their prices some, but they never did lose track of what their customers wanted, Fly/GB Track collapsed in a heap, and Ninco pretty much priced themselves out of the market. It is impossibly dumb to try to sell the same car, which was enough quality for the price yesterday, at a price that is double, even triple the original price today. But then, they also tried that crazy "lets invent a new scale for no reason at all" excursion into 1/28th scale, too. They also dumped one of the best motors in the business and replaced it with a series of inappropriate ones. From what I read, the same decision making process is still at work at Ninco. We, here on HRW spent a week or more on a very active thread talking about what a great idea it would be for Ninco to get back in the market by selling bodies that are already popular that they have been making for years. Get the price down, and sell what you are good at in huge quantity, right? Its virtually a no-risk plan. That was two or three years back, maybe longer.

[masmojo]

Whoa, I guess I have been so deep into 1/43 that I did not realize Ninco had just about fallen off the map! :o
I think the 1/43 is good, Vac form bodies!? Not so much! Especially if they don't have a dramatic downward effect on pricing! But I doubt they will fly with Hobbist even if they figure out how to market them in sets which seems like a long shot!

One thought, maybe SCX & Ninco should merge!??? :?

[Dangermouse]

Report on Slot Car today says that Ninco has brought all its moulds back to Spain from China in 2015 - therefore they are currently working their way through the process of sorting out what they can produce and when.

Hopefully that means they will sort them selves out and start producing cars again.

They have been doing the Vac Form stuff for RC and figure to give it a shot in slots - I don't see that as a good move myself but that is because I like there hard body cars.

Article here http://www.slotcar-today.com/en/notices ... 6-5135.php

thanks to Heath on SF who pointed this out

[TsgtRet]