New Losi Release?
01-17-2008, 07:59 AM
#152
WELL I WAS PRETTY BENT ABOUT THE WHOLE THING BUT AFTER A CRAPPY NIGHT SLEEP IVE FIGURE THAT IT IS TRUE....!!! YOU HAVE TO GO WHERE THE MONEY IS NOT MAKE UNPROFITABLE PARTS FOR US DEGENERATE R/C CAR RACERS...!!! I HAVE TO THANK LOSI FOR ALL THE YEARS OF AWESOME STUFF THEY HAVE MADE..!!! THEY DID COME OUT WITH GUNS BLAZIN WHEN THEY TOOK OVER THE R/C MARKET WITH THE JRX2, WHICH REVOLUTIONIZED THE RACING OF R/C CARS....!!! OHHH, AND BUY PRO-MATCH BATTERIES..!!!
01-17-2008, 08:03 AM
#153
If this new RTR helps get new people into this great hobby is that a bad thing?
01-17-2008, 08:11 AM
#154
SO TRUE, SO TRUE..... I heard from a rep at Hobbytown once that their research shows that 3% of their RC Car business is racing.
What burns my ass, from a marketing standpoint, why they didn't use a different brand name for all of their RTRs and junk and preserve their race proven Losi name. Now, regardless of how their Race cars perform, they have this black cloud over them. After all, they own Sportwerks!? It's called Brand Differentiation, preserve the aspects and qualities of one brand under a company name while also being able to attract a different market through a different name. It's like Toyota owning Lexus and Scion.... they're seperate and have their own brand name for a reason... to go after DIFFERENT MARKETS!!!!! SERIOUSLY? WHO THE HELL WORKS IN HORIZON'S MARKETING DEPARTMENT?!!
01-17-2008, 08:16 AM
#156
looks like traxxas to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that really sucks!!!!!!!!!!
01-17-2008, 08:35 AM
#158
All,
It's not like they are going to stop making the team products. Like mentioned earlier, the CR line and the Eight line are barely a year out of the gates and are already among the top race vehicles on the market.
So what if Losi/Horizon needs to find a way to make the Losi name more profitable. If you ran the business, you would be looking for the same. As far as putting a different name on their RTR products, that probably would have been a good idea or they could have just kept with Losi Sport as they did for the Mini-T and MLST. Not sure why they didn't.
Means to an end. If Losi were to go out of business, y'all would be much more upset. They now can use their race proven name to help sell RTR basher vehicles in order to keep us racing with their product. Good for them!
It's not like they are going to stop making the team products. Like mentioned earlier, the CR line and the Eight line are barely a year out of the gates and are already among the top race vehicles on the market.
So what if Losi/Horizon needs to find a way to make the Losi name more profitable. If you ran the business, you would be looking for the same. As far as putting a different name on their RTR products, that probably would have been a good idea or they could have just kept with Losi Sport as they did for the Mini-T and MLST. Not sure why they didn't.
Means to an end. If Losi were to go out of business, y'all would be much more upset. They now can use their race proven name to help sell RTR basher vehicles in order to keep us racing with their product. Good for them!
01-17-2008, 08:39 AM
#160
From a comparison standpoint, it has a brushless system and a spektrum based radio system. This truck is really already more than half way ready for a track. Put some good off-road tires on it, get rid of that awful wheelie bar and you have just converted a bashers vehicle to a GOOD entry level race quality vehicle with very little money.
Much harder to do (although not impossible, just more $$ involved) with the VLX Rustler.
Much harder to do (although not impossible, just more $$ involved) with the VLX Rustler.
Last edited by gndprx; 01-17-2008 at 09:31 AM.
01-17-2008, 09:19 AM
#162
01-17-2008, 09:44 AM
#165
http://losi.com/Search/Default.aspx?...xcelorin+combo
They don't look like anything special to me, but the price is decent for a basher setup. Of course, I'd still rather have the programmability of a Mamba Max over one the Xcelorin ESC's.
