1911Tuner,
Let me give you a better auto analogy.
My Z3 came with super-soft compound Michelin Pilot Sports and racy brake pads. These convert any change of direction or acceleration into an expensive cloud of black dust. When they wear out, guess what most owners replace them with? That's right, cheaper tires and brake pads that, while they may wear like Rug-Rite carpet, don't do a damn thing in the turning or stopping department.
Cheaper cars, like current Chevy Impalas, make do with tires and brake pads that I wouldn't cross the street to spit on, but they sell like hotcakes. Wonder why? (Far as I'm concerned, most OEM brake pads are barely adequate. For a few bucks more per car, they could shave a dozen feet off stopping distance, but they'd "Wear out too fast and cost too much money!")
The problem with your "Dream Mil-Spec 1911" is that it would cross the price line into territory currently being haunted by "loaded" models. It wouldn't be as accurate, and would certainly be less feature-rich. Five cantankerous 1911 guys would buy one, because they're just like the old ones, five more perfectionists would buy them because they were cost-effective platforms to build a perfectly personalized gun on, and the remaining 499,990 1911 buyers would ignore them in favor of the Charles Daley because it's cheaper, or the Kimber Custom Target, because it has more bells and whistles. (If it was made by Springfield or Kimber, bump that number back up to 499,995, because five 1911 guys wouldn't buy it because it didn't have a horsey on it.)
If you remain cynical about your fellow humans, you get disappointed a lot less often.
Sincerely,
Tam
Who thinks that most any 1911 under $1500 today is a "pistol starter kit."
