the answer is marketing.

IMHO, people are selling this good looking, over engineered buggy because lack of parts support and they are just OK, but not great!

The Nitro buggy. But the eBuggy isn't out yet. We can't form opinions now

Eh, over engineered is juuuuuuuuuuuust right to me.

The parts quality and machine work looks absolutely outstanding. Now, parts network is another issue all together, but with as popular as their products are becoming, let's hope Durango parts are carried by more vendors.

sorry but same buggy with added electric motor mount and dual batt tray

I'm the same way as Billy. I don't like cheap looking stuff. Not that the RC8be is cheap looking. But the Durango is exceptional looking. And over engineered is also right up my alley. I work on airplanes for a living. I know what sexy metal looks like. And that's a good looking buggy.

And AMain carries them. That's all we need to know

then look to the mugen ECO...that is a well built machine. I think the next iteration of the AE will be somewhat similar to mugen

I looked at the Mugen. It's a pretty interesting design as well; however I think the Durango, as Gregg pointed out, is exceptional.

I'm like Gregg. While the changes might mostly be cosmetic, there's something about a well machined piece of metal that screams "quality" and "engineering" to me. It doesn't mean it's better, but to me, it seems to be made to a higher standard.

For example, when I designed the brake caliper brackets for the front brakes on my track car, I could have designed a no-nonsense brake caliper bracket like you find on the (very high quality) StopTech kits:


However, I thought that since I'm having mine custom machined, why not do a little analysis to see where I could lose some weight while keeping an adequate FOS (factor of safety) given certain design criteria. After several prototypes, I ended up with this:





I also did something similar for the rear.

Yeah, I know, the Wilwood calipers aren't as nice as the StopTech's; however the Wilwoods work very very nicely, and the pads are almost 1/2 the price of the pads for the StopTech's ($155 vs $290!). Not to mention that the rotors are cheaper as well ($170 vs $230 each), and I was able to use a thicker rotor with the Wilwood setup (1.25" vs 1.1"). You go through pads and rotors much more quickly than calipers.

BTW, I received those scales today. Don't waste your money on this model. Two are close, the other two are far off. Closer after calibration, but still not enough to be useful. Also, if you just leave something sitting on the scale, you can watch the weight change! On 3 of them, the weight goes down, and on the other, the weight goes up as it sits there. Then it just fluctuates back and forth a good 20 to 30 grams. Even empty, it goes anywhere from -50 to +50 grams... Worthless, IMO.

Out of curiosity i am thinking of buying a couple of scales to try this, i have seen some on about 300 mm wide so then i can weigh the front to back aswell as they cover the whole width of the car. They can take up to 5000 grams so i can use them on my 1/5th scale cars too

The only thing to do to get them to look good is to get rid off the paint on them and leave them blank. Looks like they have been powder painted. Or you can powder paint them

You can always start at page one and scroll through the thread. The alternative is to not see any of the pics

If you want to corner weight the car and figure out weight distribution, cross weights, etc, you'll need 4 scales. One for each corner.

The shock towers and shock caps are anodized. You cannot remove the anodization like you would remove paint. Oven cleaner is pretty good at removing anodization, but you have to time it carefully as it'll eat the aluminum a bit if left on too long. There are plenty of articles online about removing anodization. I really doubt their hard anodized, so no worries there.

Definitely love the fit and finish of the Durango.

did some changes to her...

White wing, white dish wheels with m3 (soft) calibers, new sr300 to replace the melted one. New mmm fan, and uhm some sexy pictures!

You can go to the thread title on the electric offroad forum and notice the red paper clip on the right of the thread title. That will show you all attachments which should show most of the pictures.

I would wait until they can back that up. It's a lot of bling that is trying to look like an xray to me and they are known for taking forever and not making any kind of release dates. I did speak with Ryan Lutz this weekend at Motorama who is the team driver for durango and he said it is taking some time to learn the new setups. Really nice guy though. Him and Savoya from France now living in Dallas were both there. Ryan made the A-main and I recall Savoya bumped up from the B main. Neither of them were real front runners all weekend. But you know who dominated? Mayfield and his associated's. This was all nitro by the way, but the electric versions are usually similar. Mayfield was running a car with new towers and a arms that he said would be available soon.

Are we talking Carbon Fiber towers? Sounds like the Worlds stuff people had been talking about.