What?! Gil Losi JR goes to Kyosho?!
03-20-2007, 10:14 PM
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What?! Gil Losi JR goes to Kyosho?!
Holy crap! Talk about strange...Gil Losi JR, the namesake of Team Losi, has left Horizon/Losi to go to Kyosho America. HUH?!
[link=http://www.rc-car.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=8E40712DD9274E29866FA416F35F7B40&SiteID=6817839757EF4441818726B97A2175A5]Gil Losi JR goes to Kyosho America[/link]
Seems weird, why would he leave his own company that has his name on it?! I'm guessing Horizon booted him.
[link=http://www.rc-car.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=8E40712DD9274E29866FA416F35F7B40&SiteID=6817839757EF4441818726B97A2175A5]Gil Losi JR goes to Kyosho America[/link]
Seems weird, why would he leave his own company that has his name on it?! I'm guessing Horizon booted him.
03-20-2007, 10:34 PM
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RE: What?! Gil Losi JR goes to Kyosho?!
There's more going on there than the article is saying. First it does not speciffically say he has severed ties with Losi/Horizon, just that he's going to direct Kyosho's effort to align Kyosho's products to th American market. With his background with Kyosho I wouldn't be surprised if this were not some precursor to a merger or buy out of some kind.
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RE: What?! Gil Losi JR goes to Kyosho?!
Losi is obviously kicking butt right now; between the LST, Muggy, 8ight, 8ightT, their 2wd/4wd electric/nitro buggies and STs, and touring sedans, it's no wonder Kyosho America wants a piece of that ...
Kyosho doesn't seem to be doing too bad in North America though. Dave could be right about some corporate alignment; I wonder if Kyosho realizes that breaking off from a major distributor (Great Planes) wasn't the best thing and an alignment with Horizon might not be a bad thing after all.
Kyosho doesn't seem to be doing too bad in North America though. Dave could be right about some corporate alignment; I wonder if Kyosho realizes that breaking off from a major distributor (Great Planes) wasn't the best thing and an alignment with Horizon might not be a bad thing after all.
