WACK (R.I.P.): HKS USA To Shutdown

You may or may not have heard by now but industry icon HKS is shutting down the U.S. arm of its business.  This was officially announced yesterday in a letter to their dealers.  In the letter HKS sites a slowly recovering economy combined with the recent tragedy in Japan as the reasons for its shutting down the U.S. HQ but others feel another contributing factor was the rising production of cheap counterfeit parts.  I am inclined to believe that as well.  The letter also states that HKS parts will still be available in the states but will now have to come directly from Japan.  I am hoping that a major distributor such as Mackin Industries (Rays Engineering) or Pro-Motion will step up to distribute HKS parts here in the US to keep costs down.

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