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12-26-2012 | 03:58 AM

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Rubedude

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Originally Posted by mswamy

Hi All,

Merry Christmas, all!

A few of you have contributed to a small survey i have been running to understand our hobby a little better. I thought you might enjoy reading a few statistics on this wonderful Christmas day.

BTW, i am going to leave the survey live for a little while longer here, so please do feel free to add more data. At the time of this writing, we have 95 or so responses.

Buying new vs used
Manufacturer by location
Manufacturer by class - ths is only 1/10th scale onroad
What kind of people drive what manufacturer
Manufacturers used for Novice Class
Manufacturers used for Nationals
Are you going to replace this chassis in the next year?

Model Breakdown for 21.5 Blinky
Model Breakdown for 17.5
Model Breakdown for Modified
Model Breakdown for Mini
Model Breakdown for VTA
Model Breakdown for F1-GT-Le Mans

BTW - I had too much detail for models, like for TA05, a few said v1 or v2 and for xray if it was 2010 or 2011. I know this is pertinent, but I removed this detail to make the results more aggregatable. if i hadnt, there would have been too many with just single responses, thus invalidating data.

Also, if there are any questions you would like to know, please post below, ill see what i can do.

Finally, feedback welcome - still working through it all...

Thanks, and keep the data coming!

Swamy,

Having looked at the data thus far I must say there is nothing there that most guys who have been around for a while would find surprising .. some brands however I think are skewed by a number of factors not necessarily proving that one car is better over another ... by that I mean some like Tamiya for example if you are specifically talking TRF would fare much better as a competitive option than say a TT01 this may mislead some peoples choices hence why data can be manipulated to look like many different things to many different people .. also noting that the Australian market is far more incestuous than say the US or Europe so again the data may not necessarily reflect global trends .. interesting data none the less..

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