Team-losi 1/5 scale 4wd shortcorse truck bl setup?

I have read a post on another forum that the HPI's new 1/5th scale brushless is just an extended Savage platform with electrics rumored to be a another Castle version of their 1717 and MMM esc. Could this be right? I hope not because this would be doing something that heaps of people out there have done already so what would be the point? I reeeeaaaally hope that post was just some misleading info. If it isn't an all new and true 1/5th platform I have a feeling it will be another flop just like the nitro Savage 5T.

There is a lot to like about the Losi 5ive but where the hell does 37lbs come from. Being built on a traditional truggy/buggy platform you would think it would be a lot lighter than that. Hopefully an electric conversion would shed some of that.