ansmann smacker 1/10th 4wd buggy 1/8th Design
 

Ok i came across this buggy a little while ago what caught my interest was the fact that the design seems to be based on 1/8th scale nitro buggys and the fact that it has an unbelievable price less than 50 quid.

http://www.ansmann.de/pdata/MTIyMDAwMDAx/picture1.jpg

http://www.ansmann.de/pdata/MTIyMDAwMDAx/picture2.jpg

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/2...shotzx2.th.jpg
click for full size

I think some nice carbon shock towers and a carbon top deck this would be a really nice buggy.

What kind of diffs does it use? Also, it doesn't look like it has a center diff - just a spur, but that could be a ball diff I guess. Are those sliders on the F/R shafts?

Looks like it could be nice. You should get one and let us know what you think. ;)

when i get my mamba max back from castle and my other one i bought turns up i might have to consider buying one of these.

I have fired off an email to ansmann asking about the diffs and also about the pitch of the spur gear as it does not look like 48dp to me more like 32dp.

Might be interesting. Judging by the scale (10th) and the size of the teeth, it doesn't look like 32p to me, more like 48p. But it's really hard to tell since all I see is a somewhat small pic of the pinion.

well there are more pics in the catalogue pdf here on page 8-9.

http://www.ansmann.de/cms/racingroot...atalogues.html

on these pics you see the spur which to me does not look like 48dp or perhaps the pitch tamiya use which is a metric one i think.

it looks like a cross between an eighth scale suspension design and a BJ4 driveline