Hold on, folks, let's not short sell the NOMAD. After all it has
brown armoring, not black or green, and silver rings around the top and bottom of the barrels, but wait, there's more--it comes in a solid wood case like vintage wine!
You mean to tell me all that and a Swaro focuser that actually turns smoothly in
both directions is not worth $3,443? (as much as a NL Pure?!).
Unless you're flithy rich, the answer is a resounding "No." If you want customized rings on your bins, you can buy a customized Maven B3 for a fraction of the price. You get more color combos, but no wood case. Don't worry, you can make one out of an orange crate.
I have a neighor whose daughter goes out with a rich kid who owns a Chysler 300 SRT 8. It costs $48,000 and comes with a 5.7L HEMI V8 engine that sounds like a UPS truck when it's idling and a Camaro when it accelerates. It's a luxury car with a muscle car engine. It gets 14 mpg city and a combined city/hwy 17 mpg. Seems nuts to me, but obviously, there's a market for it: ostentatious rich kids with no environmental conscience.
The 300 SRT 8 will likely be replaced by an EV version like Chyrsler says it plans to do with the Charger and Challenger, but they will find a way to make them noisy. People who own muscle cars don't do so just for the acceleration but for the noise they make. Vrrroooooooooooom!
Here's my final thought on the CL NOMAD...
Brock
