Hey George - hope you are well. I suppose that they couldn't sell enough units with the flood of cheap, shoddily made charcoal grills flooding the market in the big box retailers.
Too bad people look only at price and not at value. I have a Char Q and it is a first-rate, well-made grilling machine. It will be turning out well-cooked meats on those well-seasoned cast-iron grates many, many years after the el cheapo grills that people rush to buy are taking up room in a landfill or have been recycled into hub-caps.
Pat