Originally Posted by
zaitcev
It's not a knock-off. They licensed the design and initial production in Texas is done with a number of critical parts made by AREX in Slovenia. Presumably they would want to localized the production completely, depending on how successful the project is. The information is provided by their official PR, but for some reason journalists always omit that. I saw one article that even mentioned that Rost Martin CEO is a daughter of Springfield CEO, so they went in on a human element: how she's not getting any support from Springfield and if anything she's going to be a competitor to her dad. But even they didn't mention what the degree of localization was. Journalism at its finest, man.