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I may be wrong but the earlier Abus were nice but a lot of recent Abus made in the eighties to mid nineties up until about 3-4 years ago were crap. The 5500 & 6500C3 reels that were out until being replaced with new models 3-4 years ago were very low quality. They weren't very smooth, had high plastic contents like plastic star drag knobs and plastic/nylon cast control knobs. Those reels were very poorly built. The more upgraded reels like the newer C3/C4/CL/CS reels are a certain improvement. But some of those reels are now assembled in the US, right? and the "international" reels like the CS/Sports Rockets/ Blue wonder, those are made in Sweeden I think.
Personally, I would like to see the manufacturing remain here or in Sweeden and moving them to Taiwan may influence my decision to further purchase ABU reels if the quality does suffer. I only say that the quality may suffer as some other less prominent reel manufacturers in Korea, PROC, & Taiwan - produce crap. Not that everything coming from Taiwan is crap. For political reasons, if I found out that the reels were made in the PROC, I would definitely NOT purchase them.
Now I am not against having parts sourced from other countries but I would like to see assembly remain in the current production countries. If full production were to switch, I'd probably think hard about purchasing them.
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