Schumacher

Looks like the abandoned the b5 style ball cups

Tires..It all depends who's paint schemes are on the box art.

Who's are they by the way??

Rear Tires are Jconcepts, It clearly states it on the sidewall, They have new carpet tires coming out

Tires are jconcepts.

https://youtu.be/2Ou-nRnCVok?t=252

True, the fact that Schumacher is also a car man. slipped my simple mind when talking about Astro/carpet tires.

Not that I made any claims as to who's tires they are

Not saying it's a bad thing so flame if you will, but very reminiscent design similarities between these chassis' and the new YZ2 dirt and carpet editions. Seems a lot of manufacturers are going this route. Which is a good thing. The price point ($309 ish) on this is gonna blow away the other manufacturers for sure though. Looks like some good kits for the money. Hopefully it'll drive pricing down a bit all around.

I was thinking maybe the new JConcepts Carpet Tires. The fronts in the photo clearly are not Schumacher Stagger Ribs

Where was it stated either rc10b6 or rc10b6d is $309

On AE's site.

associated's website says 309 for each car.

https://www.teamassociated.com/cars_.../RC10B6D/Team/

https://www.teamassociated.com/cars_...s/RC10B6/Team/

as they have it at Web price. should be that maybe less in stores.

Kinda makes me want to get into off-road again!

So it kinda looks like they think they've made enough advancements in weight distribution and suspension geometry that the added traction (for dirt) provided by a 4-gear tranny is no longer needed??? Is that the deal?

There are probably situations where a 4-gear still makes sense. But things would start getting really complicated if they had to offer different cars and/or options for 4-gear, 3-gear, and laydown.

associad must be sick or something...they usually take forever to come out with a completely new car

According to the photos on AE's site, the B6D doesn't use the laydown transmission. The B6D transmission photo looks like the B5Ms to be honest.