ORIGINAL: Deandome
b)You are plain ignorant if you say Traxxas copied Losi re. dual steering servos!! BOTH trucks were announced within weeks of each other & have had long development cycles. So unless there were spies, there's NO WAY either of them coulda copied from the other!! Maybe Losi copied/spied on Traxxas but managed to announce their truck earlier
I could say that Traxxas and Losi copyed the duel servo systems they have from the MRC Thunder King which has been out and used for 13+ years, MRC was the FIRST! company to use a duel servo system in ANY! 8scale kit on the market and still today it is one of the best designs out.
It is a fact that Traxxas boosted up the m/t part of this hobby because they made a product that appealed to to many newcomers to this hobby which has helped the M/T part of the hobby overall and for this they deserve credit.
THE PROBLEM I do have with some MAGS and some People that own the t maxx product is pushing it, promoting it as if it's the best performing r/c truck product ever made (as if no other company could make products as good as traxxas) THIS IS TOTAL BS. Example the 1/10 scale marketed USA-1 kit above will KILL! a a t maxx in perfomance and handling on ANY track area as would a few other older kits on the market also. Imo, the usa-1 is 10 times as strong as any t maxx also as are other older kits on the market.
The r/c truck market was here LONG! before traxxas came along, traxxas did not invent the wheel, products like the USA-1, Thunder King, Blazer sst, Mugen sst and others were here way before with better, faster, stronger more high quality products that did NOT NEED upgrades to be fast and durable. Traxxas came along after with a whole diffrent marketing idea... $$$upgrade $$$upgrade $$$upgrade.