rc10 b5
12-23-2013, 07:58 AM
#531
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12-23-2013, 08:06 AM
#532
what is odd about this is AE raised the price of the Centro kit, has a new centro rear bulkhead at $49 coming out and JC has lots of new stuff set to realease for the centro. all this Centro stuff for a car that nobody will really want after the B5 release. The TC6.2 is due within in a month. surely when they did the manual ae would have to know people would see it when the 6.2 shipped so i would think the B5 was planned to be released around the time the 6.2 shipped.
12-23-2013, 08:11 AM
#533
Why is it not cool?
Because AE is releasing a B5, all of a sudden the C4.2 and B4.2 rust to pieces, carbon fibre splits, and the aluminum warps. All the day of release?
Just because something new comes out, doesn't make the old stuff outdated, the only thing a new car hurts, is used car resale value. If you are in this hobby with hopes of high resale value, then you made a terrible decision.
Because AE is releasing a B5, all of a sudden the C4.2 and B4.2 rust to pieces, carbon fibre splits, and the aluminum warps. All the day of release?
Just because something new comes out, doesn't make the old stuff outdated, the only thing a new car hurts, is used car resale value. If you are in this hobby with hopes of high resale value, then you made a terrible decision.
12-23-2013, 08:18 AM
#534
Why is it not cool?
Because AE is releasing a B5, all of a sudden the C4.2 and B4.2 rust to pieces, carbon fibre splits, and the aluminum warps. All the day of release?
Just because something new comes out, doesn't make the old stuff outdated, the only thing a new car hurts, is used car resale value. If you are in this hobby with hopes of high resale value, then you made a terrible decision.
Because AE is releasing a B5, all of a sudden the C4.2 and B4.2 rust to pieces, carbon fibre splits, and the aluminum warps. All the day of release?
Just because something new comes out, doesn't make the old stuff outdated, the only thing a new car hurts, is used car resale value. If you are in this hobby with hopes of high resale value, then you made a terrible decision.
12-23-2013, 08:22 AM
#535
The Centro just came out. The B4.2 came out a year ago. You don't think it's a bit much to keep up with? Think about it as a consumer and not as a sponsored guy that gets everything for free. Not saying you are sponsored, but I think they are shortening their product cycle too much. This is my opinion.
12-23-2013, 08:30 AM
#537
Sure, I could understand that. Overall, this release feels a little knee jerk reaction. I think this has more to do with the RB6 winning the Worlds and Kyosho creeping into Team Associated market share in the 2wd buggy class. Purely business economics. Now people need to buy the B5 and the word on the street has to be its a better car than the b4.2.
12-23-2013, 08:35 AM
#538
The Centro just came out. The B4.2 came out a year ago. You don't think it's a bit much to keep up with? Think about it as a consumer and not as a sponsored guy that gets everything for free. Not saying you are sponsored, but I think they are shortening their product cycle too much. This is my opinion.
the .1 & .2 were not new cars. They were updates that included the mods the end users were putting on the car from the after martket. If you were keeping up with the up dates from other companies (jc, proline, avid, etc...), you had a .1 & then a .2 before they were released. This seems to be the way all companies are doing it now a days (kyosho tki1/2/3, xray '12/'13/'14, jq green/yellow/white, etc). This release, on the other hand, appears to be a completely new car, not a .3.
I wonder, if this is a new car, will they change to metric hardware?
12-23-2013, 08:36 AM
#539
I think they are releasing it because they must feel it serves a significant competitive advantage over the current RM car on the market from them.
I agree 100% with Erik, in that they are releasing a RM only platform first, then around August the year mark of the centro release you will probably see the MM release.
Another thing to keep in mind, Paul Wynn of JC is from what I understand an AE Team Manager here in the Southeast, and Jason Ruona is a lifer. Trust me when I say, I don't see them not "being in the know", further more they wouldn't have wasted the time and money into research and developing C4.2 upgrades only for AE to release a B5 MM car the following month.
I agree 100% with Erik, in that they are releasing a RM only platform first, then around August the year mark of the centro release you will probably see the MM release.
Another thing to keep in mind, Paul Wynn of JC is from what I understand an AE Team Manager here in the Southeast, and Jason Ruona is a lifer. Trust me when I say, I don't see them not "being in the know", further more they wouldn't have wasted the time and money into research and developing C4.2 upgrades only for AE to release a B5 MM car the following month.
12-23-2013, 08:37 AM
#540
The Centro just came out. The B4.2 came out a year ago. You don't think it's a bit much to keep up with? Think about it as a consumer and not as a sponsored guy that gets everything for free. Not saying you are sponsored, but I think they are shortening their product cycle too much. This is my opinion.
Folks have been waiting for the B4 successor for a very long time. The Centro was a short term solution for AE to make their car competitive on the high grip sugar World's track. While AE was the distributer of the Centro, they did not design it (to my knowledge).
The B5 has been in the works well before the Centro C4.2 was made available. If you chose to get this conversion, you knew what you were getting into -- a bandaid til the MM B5.