wow! thats pritty nice.
with all that carbon fiber how mutch does that weigh?

RTR= somewhere near 1700+G

wow! thats crazy cool , insted of cells use lipo and make it even lighter!
can you install a brushless set-up on it?

The controller might be quite big for the chassis, but there will always be a way.

man if i had that truck i would be pritty darn scared to take that of jumps it just looks soo "MINT" that it's better to sit down and stare at it than drive it.:005:

It's a buggy, BTW.

Thats one darn nice buggy, but for the price, imo is a bit too high!

I dont think so, Sylvester. I would say its just as good as a 1/8 buggy with a top notch quality, but the bad thing is that it uses belt driven system and the chassis would not accept more than 6 cells or big controllers for brushless applications. Otherwise, its one nice machine. I cant wait for the Tamiya buggy. By the time the whole japanese manufacturers get back to the 4WD buggy arena, I'm sure that team Associated will start to work on their own 4WD buggy. History is repeating itself, if you ask me.

captn', why do you say that?

What do you mean by' why do you say that'?!! I hope I did not commit another mistake.

I think he ment when you said this " History is reapeating itself" .

yea...sorry for being so vague.

Oh, dont worry. Well, if you were there in the late 70s and early 80s, you'll know that electric 1/10th scale 4wd buggies were the most popular category in the r/c world. AE were the leaders in the field. KYOSHO, YOKOMO and many other manufacturers were fierce rivals, too. However, though Tamiya were not competitive at all, even when they brought out the Avante and the Avante2001( the most advanced buggies at that time and the most expensive) to go against its rivals, their buggies were the most beloved and the most desired to date. From the Frog to the HotShot to the Top Force Evolution to the Avante2001, they're like rare stones today and if you were able to find any of it, it wont be sold for less than 400-500 dollars ( some of it were sold for more than 1700 dollars in auctions, if you can believe it). Those days were the days that r/c electric 4wd buggies were at its peak. Recently, AE are not interested in releasing a 4wd buggy simply because it has no place in the market or so they said. But, with the Japanese companies- after more than 10 years with no 1/10 elec. buggies- are returning back to the stage, I feel that the excitement of the past will return again.
However, 1/10th 4wd buggies wont be as popular because of all the new categories available today from 1/8 buggies to truggies to racing monster trucks. That's what I was trying to keep behind the sentence " history is repeating itself".

I hope history does repeat itself,i'd love an egress but it'd probably end up sitting on a shelf considering what they're worth.A new Egress or TRF version of the DF-03 would be soooo sweet.I'm thinking of getting a Dark impact and making some CVDs or some stub axles and diff outdrives to use sliders.

The dark impact platform looks like it chould be mega fast,ignorant folks may scoff at the shiny plastic but all i see is a great layout.
The only company that i think could make a better buggy than if tamiya really tried is Losi,they already have the platform to do it in the JRXS,someone at Losi is obsessed with getting weight close to the centre line.(LST,8ight,JRXS)

Its really getting exciting. I'm sure tamiya will bring out a TRF buggy sooner or later. Just wait and see.