Mastercraft or Malibu

[majestic]

Its to bad Tige is coping mc dash and the malibu looks for 09, so much for Tige being special.

I think your way off on the dash comment!

[zad0030]

I think your way off on the dash comment!

I agree, Ive seen the MC dash on a prostar and it looks nothing like the Tige. The new tige actually looks more like a malibu.

[ragboy]

And MC now has the "Attitude Adjustment Plate", they all copy each other, but I think lately the biggest changes in the industry have been pickle fork which mc gets credit for, and illusion tower for bu, which tige have both recently copied. I think the dash thing is just a natural evolution that everyone will follow.

[Lucky 275]

I just noticed, on WW, that Malibu is using a chopper gun for the fiberglass. High quality! No monocoque construction either. The stringers are also hollow. Looks like all the $$$ is spent on the vinyl and interior bling.

[ragboy]

Sanger site has some nice video about lamination and the chopper gun and stuff.

[highrock]

No one can innovate new things all the time...if something works copy it

Epics have an MSRP of around $75, I know there cost and its much less than that for an 08

[zad0030]

And MC now has the "Attitude Adjustment Plate", they all copy each other, but I think lately the biggest changes in the industry have been pickle fork which mc gets credit for, and illusion tower for bu, which tige have both recently copied. I think the dash thing is just a natural evolution that everyone will follow.

Your right, there wil be a point where some features will need to be available in all boats.

Also, supra copied Malibu's swivel head pylon

[chpthril]

Its to bad Tige is coping mc dash and the malibu looks for 09, so much for Tige being special.

How about the notched transom, walk-thru transom, transom storage, and scallops (the cut-outs on the side that someone called something else) that have all been borrowed, copied, stolen, etc, from Tige since the Ve rolled out in 06 and the Rz in 07!!!!!!!

[Lucky 275]

Chevrons

[rogersbm82]

Its to bad Tige is coping mc dash and the malibu looks for 09, so much for Tige being special.

I am gonna have to call you out on this one. Go back to wakeworld with comments like that. If I wanted to spend all day listening to people bashTige, that's where I would be. We shouldn't have to defend our boats on our own damn website.

[Jason B]

I am gonna have to call you out on this one. Go back to wakeworld with comments like that. If I wanted to spend all day listening to people bashTige, that's where I would be. We shouldn't have to defend our boats on our own damn website.

For what it's worth, I didn't take his comment like that. Serirously now, how many ways is there to incorporate a screen into a dash? Somebody is gonna look like they copied somebody--it's the nature of the beast. I didn't take the comments as bashing.

I don't really get all the "who copied who" talk on any of the boat boards anyway...visit an MX site and nobody gives a sh!t who used EFI or steering dampers or rising rate linkage first. What difference does it really make? Let the snot noses on WW caw around like hens all they want. F them, they obviously need an additional freaking hobby to occupy thier idle time.

[balair]

I agree, Ive seen the MC dash on a prostar and it looks nothing like the Tige. The new tige actually looks more like a malibu.

I noticed that Centurion Has the Same gauges and screen as Tige and Malibu do.

[balair]

Its to bad Tige is coping mc dash and the malibu looks for 09, so much for Tige being special.

You know what I like about Tige....even if they are taking designs from other companies, they are taking the best ones and putting them all together to make one boat that is absolutely flawless. Yeah I like the pickle fork design mastercraft has, but i don't like their dash or graphics. I'm sure tige wasn't the first boat with a built in cooler, but they have it and I don't see people saying they ripped that off too. Tige is simply taking other designs and improving on them. Tige also wasn't the first company to have a v-drive or a tower on their boat, some things just become industry standard and the second company that follows always gets the greif, not the third company

[ragboy]

For what it's worth, I didn't take his comment like that. Serirously now, how many ways is there to incorporate a screen into a dash? Somebody is gonna look like they copied somebody--it's the nature of the beast. I didn't take the comments as bashing.

I don't really get all the "who copied who" talk on any of the boat boards anyway...visit an MX site and nobody gives a sh!t who used EFI or steering dampers or rising rate linkage first. What difference does it really make? Let the snot noses on WW caw around like hens all they want. F them, they obviously need an additional freaking hobby to occupy thier idle time.

Exactly, EFI is a good example, many things are just natural evolution. But I think between the 3, each has had there share of stuff outside of that. How else would they get us to buy new boats?

[balair]

I wouldn't be suprised if in the future we stars seeing normal boats with pickle forks, it's a great design. I think Tige has made it much better than MC though becasue my friends used to bury their x-star all the time and I have yet to on my RZ4 and I have gone over much bigger wakes