Traxxas 1/6 scale buggy

[DavidB1126]

Found on Facebook

 

[Lukedavis]

thats sick! they should bring it back to compete with the HPI Baja 5B

 

[Chubaka]

Thanks for making me feel old. Compared to the old purple hpi baja, the monster buggy looks plain.

 

[luke66]

back when traxxas made cool stuff.


Wait, they just made the Rally VXL. Okay, one exception.

 

[DavidB1126]

I'm waiting for a couple race kits from them . Something like a 4x4 bandit would be nice. And a competitor to the et410

 

[nino]

They don't need racing and racing doesn't need them.

 

[luke66]

Ehhhhh, That's very debatable.

 

[DavidB1126]

The only racing machine they have is slash. For spec slash.
Also the sledge if you tune it up for 8th scale truggy. But thats about it.
They got out of the racing scene long ago. Mostly bashers now.
Nothing wrong with that but I would like to see something that can be raced on a competitive scale. And have a few team drivers.
I think someone posted on here about trying to race an arrma and try to possibly be a team driver for them. Highly doubt it can work for them, or traxxas both.

https://www.rctalk.com/forum/threads/sponsorship-in-races-with-my-arrma-kraton-6s.138957/

 

[nino]

But why? There are a ton of manufacturers with kits that are more durable, more tunable and WAY more precise for racing.

 

[luke66]

Options are always a good thing. Plus, if they could get their current platforms raceable, they'd have some of the most upgradeable trucks you could buy. (option parts are falling outa trees)

 

[DavidB1126]

The sledge is already somewhat race able. Pretty sure they got some carbon fiber and aluminum parts coming out for it. But if you want to race a slash (like me) you need alot of work to do to get it there. And I'm not talking about competitive racing, I am just talking about fun club racing once in a while.

Some videos of me "trying" to race my slash. I did it. Wasn't the best. On carpet it was a mixed class with a ET410.2 and a SCT410.3 and my slash. On dirt it was a mix of slash 2wds, slash 4x4s, rustler 2wd, and my buddy had a losi buggy thing.

Same thing could be said for a rustler, bandit, and anything else. Look at MX Acres on YouTube, he modded out his bandit and it is pretty fast and consistent out there.

If we are talking about spec classes here, thats a different story for later, because its a spec class and can only be ran with the things and setup out of the box.
When I was at beach rc, spec slash is a bit slower paced, but seems A LOT of FUN

Well we went off track with the thread. Who started the whole thing about racing?
Oh it was me. My bad. My thread so I really don't care about thread take overs.