ORIGINAL: RAMTech-RC
The HPI Baja is going to be "the" US model for 1/5th scale. It won't compete against any of the FG models, it won't have to. My local track here just bought land behind the store for racing the Baja in a seperate class, with new rules.
hpi marketing & design were either very smart or very dumb and overlooked the largest portion of the large scale market - europe,why not make the specs race legal (those rules apply to all makes - harm,fg ect) - why make a seperate class for baja vs baja with new rules!!,me personally would of liked to see it competing on the track with other large scale makes regardless of what country you live in.
edit: last post (sneff) - how can you tell looking at a video clip from hpi that it handles and soakes up bumps better than a fg,hpi arent going to post a video of there products handling badly are they.keep me updated on how you hpi handles when there actually released.