Like the jato and revo that they held for a while.

well, it is not very brilliant of them to hid the mini when the mini craze is at it's peak.

that is, if they even have one

the revo is a kick ass truck ......i have one with an rb 23 on it and it flies

LOL, they would probibly also have the fastest buggy buy putting a 2 or 3 speed in it, lol! now that would be halarious.

same with hpi...why dont they have a buggy?

because they are releasing the 1/5 buggy instead.

yep, a two speed most likely. another 10 dollars to convert it to single speed[:'(]

i just have three points.
1. Traxxas can be found in just about every hobby shop.

2. the T-maxx is the true basis of every new mt out there, and the most well known.

3. The Nitro Rustler is the best basher / jumping truck out there.

Not to claim that traxxas is the best at r/c, but they did something right or they wouldnt be one of the top rc makers. It would be nice to see an 1/8 buggy from traxxas, if they made it, it would sell.

Anything will sell when you spend oodles of money on advertising, doesnt mean its a good product.Kyosho,Mugen,Xray,Thundertiger and others just let the product do the talking, no need for a 15 page spread in a magazine every month.

HPI = hot bodies

lightning pro

besides their are enough crappy buggies out there already

traxxas should just continue building things for people who like to run into things fast

good money in parts

And Schumacher?

Wrong !!!

HPI = shared production facilities and distribution abilities with Hot Bodies. The companies are just colaborating whilst Hot Bodies expands it's facilities. They never predicted such a demand for the HB Lightning and as such were not in possesion of the equipment required to produce the parts quick enough, so they struck a deal with HPI and atm it's running sweet.

Now with all the current 1/8th buggies onm the market a company has to decide wether it is financially viable to invest in R&D for this area of the market. Currently there are over 10 makes of good quality (LOL) buggy almost exhausting the current thinking pot of innovative performance enhancing designs. TTR tried a new chassis for example, it proved too stiff and cracked, now people with the S3 are returning to the flat plate style. Just think how much it costs to develope/design, make the moulds/tooling, build the prototypes, redesign the flaws out, retool, blah blah blah, well that's quite a bit and in a market that is currently swamped with models for all price brakets, only a group with the greatest buggy in history would dare enter the market. The best thing for Traxxas to do is carry on with what they are good at... MT's and filling up magazine pages with crap.

On the magazine note, has anyone noticed how so alike they all are. Aren't magazines supposed to review the products thouroughly? Why dont we have a crash test analasys? I think geting 15 buggies lined up, Full WOT into a wall and see which would be cheapest to repair / would still be drivable / which made the litle boy cry more? Another test could be the BUS run, See which survives being run over by a bus the best, hell someone will want to know. Then theres the maintenance timing challange. Take an Item on the car that is common to all (say the rear diff o-ring), and see how long it takes to replace them, this will show the most mechanically friendly. These are just ideas for mags, rather than reading the same review each month with the name of the car being swaped out for the new models. Something like, "Well we took the *********** out and gave it a good thrashing on the local BMX track, would you believe it, the darned thing was a pile of junk, the chassis slapped the floor like a *****s butt and the wing thought it looked better on the floor rather than on the chassis. In all this is not the Ideal buggy for throwing around your local track but would be more at home on the shelf just loking pretty". Now wouldn't that sort out all the trashy posts on here from people so peed off when their buggy dismantles itself the first time out.

COME ON WRITERS, TELL US THE TRUTH AND STOP KISSING UP TO MANUFACTURERS, YOUR SELLING THE READERS LIES ABOUT SOME KITS.

RCCA's reviews can be made good if the manufacturer pays well

You can't be that objective in a magazine. You would get blackballed by the manufacturer. The buggy may fall apart from the vibration of the starter box, and bottoms out over body pins lying on the track, but you can't just pulverize it with your review, because that manufacturer won't send you a car to test next time. You can't write a magazine without cars to review. Its politics, and its not fair, but it is reality. You can look for subtlties though. Like ". . .not quite in the same class as. . ." actually means this thing belongs at Radio Shack, or ". . . some users may want to upgrade this piece. . ." means do it or else. Every once in a while a magazine comes along that tries that honest review idea, but they either change to the suck up philosophy, or go out of business.

I know what your saying there and wholely agree, but wouldn't it be nice if say RC Driver got hold of a Stock XB8 and just told the truth about what it really is like. This I picked as I still think it is the best kit on the market, but no where near worth the asking price. Then they could get, say an SHO thingie, do exactly the same with it and I bet you that the SHO would be cheaper to maintain, not omnly would the parts be cheaper but theose damn IAS and ICS clips wouldn't need replacing after a dusty run. Of course you'd have to run the same mill, pipe and radio gear in both just to test the chassis alone but then this would show if it was worth the extra cash.

Now I know this is a dream and will never happen, but if the test was performed I bet the SHO would last longer and defo be cheaper to run. But who would go to the Worlds and get their SHO banner out and set up for the week? Well Kanai could, after all it is just a 7.5 rip off. LOL.

Well if anyone in this therad comes up with a rc mag please tell us the truth I agree stuff they put in mags is just to get the consumer to buy there protect. How comes thy cant have there products sell for themselves. I think we should all write a letter or the same letter differnetly worded to a rc mag say rcca or we all join xterme rc and tel them that the lieing has to stop we wont the truth and how can a mag sell it self if no one buys it HINT HINT

Isn't that RD Logis buggy a re-badged version of the PRP Swift? On this other forum I visited, they outright pummeled that buggy. They all hated it, like 30 pages of why did this break, or if you rig like this you can cure that. I was amazed at some of the things they wrote. Maybe RD Logics upgrades them or something, but if not I would worry about buying one.

I agree though. I would love to see a magazine that told the truth. It would help our hobby progress. It would force the companies to produce higher quality products, or get bombed on by the press. Instead, you get famous people like Chris Chianelli (formerly or maybe currently of RCCA) promoting Smartech on that DIY channel on sattelite, because they pay him. I swear I have read some reviews where I can just tell that the author wants to scream "this thing sucks" but had to write a favorable review anyway.

Take XRC and that cage match article for example. If they could have, they would have wrote six pages of jokes telling how the GS buggy is nowhere near the other five. Or how the Jammin buggy just made the person who determines prices for Kyosho, XRAY and Mugen crap himself. Or maybe the reverse, the OFNA guy got fired, especially since the tag on their new truggy is like above six hondo which I think is a first for OFNA.

Haulin bass,

You're the only sign of intellegence I think I've seen on the universe.