Associated Off Road Desert Truck ?
07-04-2008, 01:08 PM
#1
Associated Off Road Desert Truck ?
Traxxas has made a big "Splash" with their desert truck "Splash". I think what drivers like is the wheels inside the body. Associated has interest in the full size off road desert trucks so I wonder how long it will be before Associated comes out with their own version?? Anybody have any insight or heard any rumors of such ?? Thanks.
07-04-2008, 01:16 PM
#5
My feelings are the average racer is tired of trucks that are unrealistic, such as wide wheels, wheels that outsize the actual truck. IMO I see the CORE concept of off road desert trucks as the way to go and (hopefully) see that as the future of off road truck racing. Enough of these wide tired kiddy cars. I really hope Associated gets with the program and puts out a competitive desert truck.
07-04-2008, 01:21 PM
#7
I can't imagine the Losi truck is doing anywhere near as well as the slash.
I really think what drives people to the slash are 2 things. It is the most scale looking truck to ever come to market that actually performs well enough for race conditions. The 2nd thing is the features for price. It has turnbuckles, ball bearings, hex head metric screws, and near indestructible plastic.
It can be a cheap 2nd or 3rd class for current racers or a very affordable entry level class for new people.
The losi is just another version of the xxx-t and doesn't look like any full scale desert truck I have ever seen on the course.
Hopefully AE is paying attention and if they do introduce a truck it will follow the path of the slash rather than the losi.
I really think what drives people to the slash are 2 things. It is the most scale looking truck to ever come to market that actually performs well enough for race conditions. The 2nd thing is the features for price. It has turnbuckles, ball bearings, hex head metric screws, and near indestructible plastic.
It can be a cheap 2nd or 3rd class for current racers or a very affordable entry level class for new people.
The losi is just another version of the xxx-t and doesn't look like any full scale desert truck I have ever seen on the course.
Hopefully AE is paying attention and if they do introduce a truck it will follow the path of the slash rather than the losi.
07-04-2008, 01:49 PM
#9
Would you rather have a vehicle more capable of offroad and better at handling, or a vehivle that is scale? I would rather get the one that preforms the best, wouldnt you? And Losi tried to make a truck that looked like a desert truck but still had the same performance of a xxx-t at a cheaper price tag. Traxxas was aimed at who mommy, that truck is cool. Can I have it?
07-04-2008, 01:57 PM
#10
would never happen. as far as spec racing-every1 wants it but its the biggest joke of all. sounds great sounds fair to all who are paranoid of being inadequate (did i just say that), but it just doesnt work.
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07-04-2008, 02:04 PM
#11
Would you rather have a vehicle more capable of offroad and better at handling, or a vehivle that is scale? I would rather get the one that preforms the best, wouldnt you? And Losi tried to make a truck that looked like a desert truck but still had the same performance of a xxx-t at a cheaper price tag. Traxxas was aimed at who mommy, that truck is cool. Can I have it?
Are you sure about that? Everyone I know that has it have there own kids. I would rather have the more realistic truck myself. I did not like the Losi truck as soon as I saw it, but of course I have never cared for losi racing trucks nor the big A. I guess thats why I only raced touring car because they were realistic looking. Thats why monster trucks have done so well over the years. They looked realistic. You could have a Monster jam right in your back yard. Now you can have CORR racing there too.
07-04-2008, 03:14 PM
#13
In talking to lots of other people who are embracing the Slash as a racing class, and just from my own perspective (having just finally bought one myself), the Slash is taking off for a number of reasons. Top of the list is the scale appearance - it looks like a real CORR truck, it's big and rugged, and with the stock motor/gearing and tires, it MOVES like you'd expect a real truck to. It isn't zipping around the track at the scale equivalent of 200mph, so it looks more realistic in action. Racing them as-is presents a situation where winning is more up to the driver's skill than their pocketbook...so that's also attractive. They just have a really high fun factor and that's why people are embracing the Slash the way they are. Right now we're all calling it the "Slash" class but it seems unreasonable to expect that AE and others wouldn't design a similar spec CORR truck, to get a piece of the pie. Soon we'll be calling it the "Mini CORR" class.
I just hope people can resist the seemingly innate urge to form a "mod" class for it...kinda defeats the purpose of a scale-looking and driving truck, IMO.
I just hope people can resist the seemingly innate urge to form a "mod" class for it...kinda defeats the purpose of a scale-looking and driving truck, IMO.
07-04-2008, 03:16 PM
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07-04-2008, 03:24 PM
#15
In talking to lots of other people who are embracing the Slash as a racing class, and just from my own perspective (having just finally bought one myself), the Slash is taking off for a number of reasons. Top of the list is the scale appearance - it looks like a real CORR truck, it's big and rugged, and with the stock motor/gearing and tires, it MOVES like you'd expect a real truck to. It isn't zipping around the track at the scale equivalent of 200mph, so it looks more realistic in action. Racing them as-is presents a situation where winning is more up to the driver's skill than their pocketbook...so that's also attractive. They just have a really high fun factor and that's why people are embracing the Slash the way they are. Right now we're all calling it the "Slash" class but it seems unreasonable to expect that AE and others wouldn't design a similar spec CORR truck, to get a piece of the pie. Soon we'll be calling it the "Mini CORR" class.
I just hope people can resist the seemingly innate urge to form a "mod" class for it...kinda defeats the purpose of a scale-looking and driving truck, IMO.
I just hope people can resist the seemingly innate urge to form a "mod" class for it...kinda defeats the purpose of a scale-looking and driving truck, IMO.
