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Picked up a new buggy today! I was just walking around my LHS and saw a RTR 1/16 scale brushless buggy. Seems pretty nice. Comes with a lower-end FM Tx, 3s1p 1300mAh lipo pack, charger (crappy wall-wart style), Mamba 25 ESC, and a HiMax 5300kv BL motor. Not too shabby IMO. Something fun to play with when my Revo/Jato/Hyper8 batts are charging. :)

Cool. Any pictures of it? Do you know who make it, and was it brand new?

Any links to it?

Yeah, it was brand new at the LHS. I was actually looking at picking up an 18T or something like that when I saw a RTR BL setup and thought it was pretty sweet. A little on the pricey side at ~$250, but that's what tax refunds are for! And there seems to be some decent hop-ups for it.

No center diff though. :( I guess it's time to mod after all! :)

The manufacturer website is "under construction", but here's a few pics.

I posted a thread on this buggy when it was first announced, glad to see its as good as i thought

I ran it just a little in the basement and the thing is FAST! It's light with a lot of power so it really gets up and goes. I'm wondering about the durability of the diffs though. Seems ok but only time will tell. I haven't read anything bad about it, but it is still new.

I'll probably pick up some of the CF hopups, or might even make my own. Doesn't look too hard and shaping flat CF is easy with a Dremel (if a bit messy).

Cool.. hobbyhaven had these?

Yep. Actually, I got the only BL one they had (unless they have more out back), but there's still a Nitro one there...

It actually looks pretty decent. Should be really fun. What I love about my rc18 is that I can just plug it in and drive wherever I want. Even if you have 5 minutes to spare. You just get it out and drive it, lol.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I was looking for...

I saw this thing at the LHS I work at. Took it out of the box too. What's funny is that the box shows a picture of a completely different ESC and motor than what's in the box!

Pics please!

Nice Brian! sounds like fun!

I love those little 1/18th scale jobs. A friend of mine actually alocated a small portion of his backyard for a little race track for our RC18s.

Are you getting any glitching with the cheap radio?

After looking at it a bit more, there are a few things I want to change layout-wise. The screw on the steering servo arm is a little close to the lipo pack for my liking, so I'll be re-designing that. I also want to tidy up the wiring scheme. I'm going to add a heatsink to the Mamba ESC as well.

No glitching yet, but I've only been running about 20 feet away in the basement, so it's hard to say. Eventually, I'll be putting a Spektrum in it, but for now, the stock one will work.

looks pretty cool I might have to get one of those

Actually, this one is an 1/16 scale :).