Finally got past the rush of Christmas and now ready for RC thoughts again. Got the Hudy book, looking forwards to reading it. However after a year of exhaustively looking for parts for the 7.5 platform (and getting frauded out of $200 from a guy on this site claiming to have a bin of stuff) I am officially giving up on it. I waited most of the summer for a front bumper, not doing this anymore. Kyosho is not supporting the platform well anymore even though the Neo is almost the same, and ebay parts is too stressful. Some of you may have noticed my posting on the MP10 threads, asking for advice between 2 used buggies. I could choose between a full MP9 tki3/4 mix, with enough spare parts to literally make 2 buggies plus some. However these are really beat up bad, though I'm sure most components are still usable.

Or, an almost new MP10 with a small batch of spares. The asking prices are similar, although in the long run the MP10 will end up costing much more due to the lack of spares. There is a lot of talk about updated parts for the MP10 such as taller shock towers and longer shocks, I would assume this is the original buggy kit as he had raced it a bunch of times in 2020 and I don't see a second set of shock towers in the spares (although there are a couple shocks pictured).

Based on some comments on this thread, seems some would suggest sticking with the 10 as it is the newest platform and likely most capable moving forward. Problem is Kanai stated the progression of buggies moves more and more towards high-grip surfaces of modern tracks. Here in these parts there are hardly any tracks, but are all low grip to my knowledge. My bashing is primarily low grip as well, which would sort of lead one to believe the older mp9 may be more competitive?