ORIGINAL: ElectricGuy007
hELLO hotshot fans...Im starting to become a fan after reading this thread...
Did the Boomerang come out before the hotshot...and which car is better...??
The Boomerang came out after the Hotshot, It represents Tamiya's continuing development of it's Four wheel drive off road vehicles back in the mid 1980's. For ease of maintenance, I would choose the Boomerang. That buggy was a simplified version of the Hotshot. The Hotshot IMHO, has a more scale off road vehicle look based on the the Fast Attack vehicle and Wild One 2WD buggies. The original Hotshot was simply "over engineeered".
The current re -release version is slightly different compared to the original. It also duplicates the problems associated with the original: The annoying "bump steering" and the "need to upgrade later" mono shock system.