Well to me the new car looks good.
Disappointed to see the loss of the centre batteries (don't forget that a Pro3 came sixth (I think) in the warm up race, so the car does have pace.
But I do have a soft spot for shaft drive, and to me that car looks like it drops the aspects of the TC3 I don't like i.e that odd steering geometry, and the wide offset of the batteries from the shaft, because of the ribs in the middle of the moulded chassis.
And hopefully it will be nice and light, unlike Tamiya's George Foreman-esque TB cars.
The Alex cars are not something I've seen over here.