Umm, how can you tell that stuff is plastic? If you look at Losi's electric vehicles, their plastic parts look just like their graphite parts. Well, other than the white word "graphite" printed on it, which probably wouldn't be printed on a pre-production prototype. Often they use molded graphite, they don't just use the woven type. Look at the kits on their site. The graphite is a grayish color that is speckled just like the "plastic" everyone sees in the pictures of the 8ight.

I highly doubt that a company like Losi would roll out a clunker as their first ever-in-20-long-damn-years 1/8th buggy offering. Especially since every other field of surface R/C they are in has a championship winning kit (except maybe the LST, I don't know much about monster trucks). But even that behemoth seems better designed than alot of its competitors.