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new buggy pics - 5/8/2008 4:04:24 PM   
hakmazter



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RE: new buggy pics - 5/8/2008 4:37:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Im new to things but it looks nice. I think the best thing about it is that it dosnt have any names on it so some of the people on here that bash things can give a less biased opinion and just say what they think.

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RE: new buggy pics - 5/8/2008 6:09:01 PM   
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RE: new buggy pics - 5/8/2008 6:43:55 PM   
hakmazter



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Status: offline 		It is a factory built buggy. It is not a conversion. I just started a new post as it seemed that there were only a few people looking at a different thread and it was the same people over and over again. I was hoping to get a fresh perspective from the other 8000 people who frequent this forum. You are right about the name....

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RE: new buggy pics - 5/8/2008 6:47:05 PM   
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RE: new buggy pics - 5/8/2008 7:00:29 PM   
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Status: online 		I like it. Although it seems to be unnecessarily wide. Why do the rock guards extend out so far? Can we get some pics with a painted body on it?

What will it weigh in at with batterys and a ESC?

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RE: new buggy pics - 5/12/2008 4:43:10 PM   
hakmazter



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Status: offline 		We are using as many parts as possible to make life easier for our hobby store customers. I do not want them to have $$$ in extra inventory, so the goal was to use as many parts that we could off the nitro. We also want it to look like any other Caster also. We are also trying to help develop the electric class and there are many places that are just accepting the idea of combining electric with nitro. This will be hard enough with the performance differences, let alone, if it visually looked different from other 1/8 scale designs and looked more like a 1/10 scale. I'll get pics with a body as soon as I get them in.

Mike Mazza

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RE: new buggy pics - 5/12/2008 9:23:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		The front of the car reminds me Mugen. And the wheels remind me kyosho I never seen before an electric buggy made by factory. Where is that thing come from?

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RE: new buggy pics - 5/13/2008 2:03:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		Where does it come from? It is being made at the Caster Racing manufacturing facilities over in Taiwan. It was designed by Dustin Peckham and Cameron Martin in Des Moines, Iowa, USA at Caster Racing USA. The prototype was made here and was sent over to be replicated and mass produced. It was designed around the ZX-1R nitro buggy that was designed late last year. Hopefully that answers your questions. If you have any more, please feel free to ask.

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RE: new buggy pics - 5/13/2008 2:18:43 AM   
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ORIGINAL: hakmazter

Where does it come from? It is being made at the Caster Racing manufacturing facilities over in Taiwan. It was designed by Dustin Peckham and Cameron Martin in Des Moines, Iowa, USA at Caster Racing USA. The prototype was made here and was sent over to be replicated and mass produced. It was designed around the ZX-1R nitro buggy that was designed late last year. Hopefully that answers your questions. If you have any more, please feel free to ask.

I was going to say Caster Racing, HAK but did not know if you wanted to say or not yet so I figured I would leave it up to you

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RE: new buggy pics - 5/13/2008 3:13:48 AM   
Furadi


 

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quote:

ORIGINAL: hakmazter

We are using as many parts as possible to make life easier for our hobby store customers. I do not want them to have $$$ in extra inventory, so the goal was to use as many parts that we could off the nitro. We also want it to look like any other Caster also. We are also trying to help develop the electric class and there are many places that are just accepting the idea of combining electric with nitro. This will be hard enough with the performance differences, let alone, if it visually looked different from other 1/8 scale designs and looked more like a 1/10 scale. I'll get pics with a body as soon as I get them in.

Mike Mazza



Is that in response to my question about it being so wide? A narrow 8 scale doesn't look like a 10 scale... It just looks better IMO. Look at the 8ight or the Hyper 9, the new trend is narrow.. It would be silly for caster to design a buggy and make it wide on purpose.

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RE: new buggy pics - 5/13/2008 3:21:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		They just used a existing platform and did there own conversion in house. It was alot easier that way instead of making a whole new design when the current ZX1-R is pretty new and handles awesome as it is. I personally do not care for the newer narrow design. Once the body is on it will not look so wide. It is not wider than your normal buggy now.

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RE: new buggy pics - 5/13/2008 1:36:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looks very clean and light..... but IMO why go with electric when nitro (or gas) gives you so much more run time and feal. Not that it's a bad thing but it reminds me of the 80's when we had the 7.2V Tamiya Frog, Grass Hoppers.... very cool then but also very limited unless you had $$ for 5-6 batteries.

But it's just my opinion.



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RE: new buggy pics - 5/14/2008 3:31:04 PM   
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