sosidge: I agree on the looks of the bodies. I personally think the touring cars are butt ugly!!!!!!!! I am an ex full scale racer that raced camaro Z28's and corvettes. A honda civic is not my idea of a fast car. The Saleen M7 is. I would love to run this body. Did on my nitro till I got better, and then has to switch to TC body.
On the 1/12 I would love to run the newer panoz or BMW body. Ran the LMR body on my Super Nitro. Agree with you on the wedge look of the parma.
I have had the reverse luck with the protoform and parma. Parma split quick and proto has lasted longer. But as noted most do not last long at all. If I was a front runner, it might be different. But alas my skills are not that good.
But I do have fun racing!
and that is what matters.