So, all you starving modern pickemup phans ... how many Tahoes or Dodge Rams or Silverados or Escalades did you actually buy, stock up on? How many did you build to display at shows, publish online, or sneak into magazine coverage so as to convince the kit manufacturers of the viability of modern pickemup kits? Why are those kits considered underachieving dogs by the manufacturing/distributing/retail side of the hobby industry?
And, for all the 'why won't they make new car kits' afficiandos out there ... which stunning example of automotive perfection do you want kitted? A Forchevbuick200300? Or a Toyosubahyunkiazdahon? Or a Mercedifinitiexus?
On second thought, it might actually make sense: They could mold up one body, provide almost imperceptibly different wheels, and decal sheets with the slightly different composite headlamp patterns and grille logos in order to market a half-dozen or more kits as "different" modern cars!
And, hobby paint suppliers would only have to stock white, black, grey, and silver.
3D printers? Sure. The printer will cost $100 but the material cartridges will cost about $300 apiece, will have too little raw material to finish a job, and will always run out late at night when Staples is closed!
Actually, gang, I don't think the times are so bad! The manufacturers are pumping out more great products than I can afford to buy in the quantities I want, and I buy more new kits than I'll be able to build in my lifetime. Anything they don't manufacture just helps me out a little bit in trying to keep up with them!