ORIGINAL: HPI_Savage_RC
It required upgrading because as I already stated, the DESIGN is the best, not the materials. Thus, it has the potential to be the strongest in practice as well as theory.
If you have jumped higher than 20ft without breaking your Revo's suspension arms, consider yourself lucky. The arms are a well known weak spot that most Revo owners upgrade right away.
Anyway, I am sick of arguing with a bunch of biased sheeple who have no understanding whatsoever of materials science or structural engineering. But that is my fault, I wouldn't expect to find people WITH said knowledge anywhere else but on a Savage forum.
BWAHAHAHA... that's funny. The DESIGN of a structure includes the materials it is built with.... therefore the design of the Savage's TVP's is flawed. It took someone else to improve their design by adding more structural rigidity to the TVP's (thicker and better material) The LST2's chassis wouldn't have broken in the displayed breaking point had it been made of different materials... but somehow it became a "design flaw"... When structural engineers design buildings, they include the materials it should be built from, correct? I mean... a good structural engineer wouldn't design the same building if it were made of wood as they would steel. A structural engineer that specifies a 2x4 construction for a skyscraper would be considered an "idiot" by people like you... no matter how perfect his design was... why? 'cause he called for the WRONG MATERIALS in the DESIGN. I'm sorry you're an elitist, however the real world many times differs from the engineering world... Therefore, the TVP design is flawed.
I must have gotten VERY lucky in all the 4 years I've owned my Revo... because a 20' jump has NEVER broken an A-arm on my Revo. Shock shaft? yep. Motor mount? Uh huh.... A-arm... NOPE. A smash into a tree at 30+MPH broke my A-arm... but never from a failed landing or a high jump. As I said... I have a video somewhere that has over 20 minutes of unedited footage (5 minutes edited) of 10-20' jumps all completed with a broken A-arm from previous smash into a tree... but it never broke any more.