Visiblement, sur les forum Européen, ça discute pas mal sur les délais de livraison de NSR et sur la justesse de reproduction des dernière 917 (comme pour les Mk IV). Mais contrairement à d'autre marque qui se moquent pas mal de l'avis du client et ne s'explique même pas auprès d'eux, NSR s'est donné la peine de nous envoyer un gros texte (en anglais et que je laisseré tel quel). Et avec ce texte, pas mal de photos de la 917k.
Le texte pour commencer:
Dear readers
I have to explain some important things:
First of all, please remember always that NSR produces slot cars only for competitions.
ALL NSR cars are MADE IN ITALY. NSR is small artisan company producing directly into the factory except paint and tampo.
Our costs to buy molds for 1 car only, is about 60.000,00 eur (yes, it is sixty-thousands-euro!!) because all molds are Made in Italy. For this reason we cannot change things as a wizard could do.
Our costs are very high; all NSR employers have regular work-contract, insurance, and we pay royalty to all Companies and Sponsors (as Gulf for example J) that give us licence, as we are not bandit.
We LOVE slot cars, and we try every day to make our best. We are not big industry, we are only few guys.
So please, before make your comments about details, bigger lights, smaller windows… think always about NSR philosophy: NSR produces competition slot cars racing on the tracks, winning around the World, not to put on the desk!
NSR makes slot cars only for competition! To WIN competitions, not to play!
We invite you to found on the market for 69,50eur or 75,00eur a slot car (equipped with alu. Wheels and gear, steel axles, bronze oilites, high torque motor…) faster than NSR car “straight of box”!
Yes, because NSR cars are absolutely fastest slot cars “out of box”. (some cars without magnet are absolutely a disaster…)
THIS is our mission, our filosophy, and we try every day only to improve performance.
Our competitors are not Racer or Fly or other Brands… our competitor are Tracks, Lap Timer, Race result! We think only about performance!
I like to explain this first, just because some people couldn’t know how it is difficult this work for a small company as NSR.
Starting from SET01, all new NSR cars (1030 Punto S2000, 1031 MK IV Usa, 1032 917K Piper) have complete nice detailed cockpit: hand painted driver helmet, belts, gloves; roll-bar, driver, helmet, steering wheel, seat reproduce same colour of real car; also bodies have more and more details then previous years. Always made in Italy, made directly in NSR factory !
NSR is well know as manufacturer of high performance slot cars straight out of box.
Now it is right time to improve look of NSR models, so our cars will be fast and nice too!
Please excuse me for big delay about SET01; we shipped before Xmas only 500 of 1000 SET01; we will complete remaining SET01 and we will ship them before end of year, sure!
The reason is not simply, I try to explain to our clients and fans:
Paint and tampo are not made in our factory, and these two steps required very long time; also the final transparent paint has to make very careful, otherwise car is destroyed….
Tampo is hand made, it is made by simply hand machine, not by computer-automatic machine.
More than extimated time; so we received 500 of n.1 + 500 of n.2 only last 06 december.
We worked as devils to assemble cars quickly, but there are many complicated and “extra” steps that required more time (drivers with different helmet, accessories included into same mold produced in more different colours to make nice cockpit, fan, motor, steering wheel, head…) … and we cannot work 20hours day, because quality MUST be high.
For example we had to make by hand bigger holes to solder silver fuel caps (because paint made smaller holes…), we had to paint by hand the black part of body to fix front lights..
There are many parts very small size, it is very difficult to handle these parts, we need to use special tool with “self-adhesive” to “capture” small piece careful, without destroy it…
We have tools used by girls to pull eye-brow, but we use it to take the shift gear and install it into cockpit… our guys seem beauticians J
This time we made our best to make SET01 very nice, not only fast as previous cars.
It means that we need about 40minutes of gold labour to assemble completely 1 Porsche 917K!
If you have possibility to look with your eyes at SET01, you understand that 169,00eur is really very low price, as real value is more and more high.
This is a Made in Italy slot-jewel for only 169,00eur, for sure!


Nico





























