Hey Kelly,
I hope all is well.
We can go on for days about copying, we were a little sneaky and saw your "budget" arm coming out so we decided to offer a similar product. I don't consider it so much as "copying" when all we did was make a boxed arm for the same retail cost to compete, we have the control arm dimensions here along with our own shop Mustangs so it was super easy. It is competition, when prices drop that drastic we have to compete. it is part of the business, you guys at BMR know that.
I did see BMR just released a "copy" of our tubular rear control arms for the 64-72 A-Body. We have been offering that arm for 10 years now. But I consider it competition and there is enough business out there for us all.
Take care,
Ryan
Ryan, I do not keep up with our A-Body segment, as you likely know.
If we copied your A-Body LCA design, I do apologize for that. Again, I do not follow the A-Body stuff....but, I would be willing to bet the design we apparently copied, is probably similar to
many of the offerings on the market - not a specific UMI design. So, my point is....If I am right, I wouldn't say we copied
you - I would say we followed the market (offerings) and what the market wants. I could be completely off there, but I'll bet the majority of the A-Body LCA are tubular, and the difference is primarily color and bushing manufactures.
The boxed S197 LCA is a BMR Design. No one else had a boxed offset LCA design for this car, before us.
There is about a 99.99% chance that any S197 LCA that is boxed with an offset, was derived from our design.
So, in a nutshell, you definitely copied a BMR Design, and matched the price. The A-Body LCA we recently started offering, may be similar to what you build....but it is likely similar to what 90% of the offerings in that market are.
I see blatantly copying, and following the market as two different things. Maybe I'm off base there, I dunno.
I definitely appreciate your response in here, and I also want you to know that I do appreciate your S197 products, as a whole, being designed by you guys in house. My initial response to this situation was shocking, as I have previously always been very pleased that you guys have mostly stayed away from our designs, in terms of "copying". I guess I would say, I was shocked that you pulled that move.
Competition is a great thing. I look forward to seeing your future product offerings for the S550!
