Originally Posted by
Meangene67
Young guy today told me if I wanted to race this truck, it's the wrong brand. get a Tekno/TLR or Luse? I said its all Im gonna have for a long time. I better enjoy it and have fun.
All good trucks. but there is nothing wrong with what you have. All my race cars are Associated. I've been running them since the first RC10; a few decades ago. Lol. But pretty much all modern hobby grade cars are capable of putting you in the top 5 at a club race. Tamiya, TLR, AE, Xray ect. have all won national and world class races. Have fun and run what makes you happy. Suspension dynamics are pretty much universal across the board. If you can set up and tune an Associated car, you can apply that same knowledge to a TLR car. You don't need a particular brand to be competitive. JMO-YMMV.
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