NTC3NUT: your wasting your time. People like that will always believe whatever they want. That every other company around has copied something from someone else, EXCEPT the company that they like. Look at it this way, anytime you see someone flaming another car, its usually because they want that car and can't affoard to get it!
Boomer: you have your facts backward, the Tamiya car doesn't look similar to the Associated car, its the other way around! Because the Tamiya car came first.
And isn't that what all this crap is about, what came first.
I don't hit RCCA's message board very often, but one of the things I like about their forums is that they don't allow people to come to a car's thread just to flame it, while contributing no useful insight. Maybe thats a path futureal might consider taking, because the "its just a copy" crap is poping up on EVERY thread for ANY new car. It gets old quick!