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Having owned and raced both, I would say the answer more lies in the surface that you are racing on. If you are are on high grip or turf/carpet the Xray is by far better. Honestly, it is not even close. On lower grip dirt the B7 will be better due to the nature of the design. But having said that, you can be successful with both. Personally the quality of the Xray is by far the best on the market, once again not even close in this regard, but it does have a higher cost. Expect a new Xray this fall (I would guess) but I don't think it will look anything like the B7. I suspect there will be a few tweaks to a very successful platform. The geometry does look closes to the B6.3 but it is still different in many ways. Also, I don't think this is a bad thing as the AE 6.3 was a very good car. Actually, it was a lot better than the 6.4 in many ways. Either way you cannot go wrong, but I do think the surface you race on most might sway you in one direction or another. Good luck!
to me the xb2 drives more like a b6.2, but I agree this isn’t a bad things, the car is easy to tune on high grip dirt and carpet, the parts though more expensive last 3 times as long as anything AE or TLR could ever come up with. With the US team getting bigger by the day, setups and support isn’t an issue anymore. Parts are up on amain or rcamerica for all 24 models. I’d rather spend a few more bucks on parts that will last way longer then on a car that claps out after 2 races.