Maybe, depends who you trust. Team Associated’s official announcement says that it’ll be available in March. Tower Hobbies’ product page is noting late February, which isn’t far off from the official word. But A Main Hobbies is saying they’ll have it in stock on January 17. About 2 weeks from now.
Retailers are pretty well-known for getting release dates [...]
On the heels of Associated’s other new cars and trucks comes the final, official announcement of something we’ve all known about since October. Team Associated’s SC18, a 1/18th scale short course r/c truck. What has been announced isn’t what was advertised though, there have been some changes.
As I suspected they did change over to a 2.4 [...]
Tower Hobbies has the Duratrax Vendetta SC in stock. So if you’re looking for some small scale short course action then whip out your credit card and get to buying. You can get it in red, white, blue, or yellow. For $219.99 you don’t get everything you need. You’ll still have to provide a battery [...]
Here’s the first video of Team Associated’s new SC18 via the folks at RC Car Action. Looks to be a good little performer. And I love that little backyard style track they’re running it on.
This is a video that expands on the peek they gave us in the November 6th episode of The Radio Control [...]
RC Driver, issue 73 (Jan 2010), page 120. Tony Phalen has a two page preview of the SC18. He’s pretty excited about it and there is definitely a hint that it will be out before Christmas but no price point as of yet. Hopefully less than $200.
There’s quite a few differences between the SC18 platform [...]
My favorite new car from iHobby this week is, without a doubt, the Duratrax Vendetta SC. At the moment of the announcement there wasn’t a price or ship date put out for the truck. But since then the truck has showed up in Tower Hobbies’ online catalog. The Vendetta SC is going to be $219.99 [...]
[ Update: added a pic of the advert below. ]
[An after-thought] I totally spaced that the iHobby Expo is coming up in about a week. I’m assuming that the debut of the SC18 was intended to be during the expo. Give it a week and we might have some more info, so stay tuned.
Making it’s debut [...]
Kyosho, OFNA, Losi, Associated, and HPI all now have purpose built electric 1/8 scale buggies. The products are out there and people are buying them. When every major player in the market has a product out then it’s safe to say that product’s time has arrived. The naysayers are changing their tunes, 1/8 electric is [...]
Losi is finally introducing a proper short course style truck. At least that’s my assumption based on their current newsletter. On July 9th they are going to officially announce
a new 1/10-scale truck packed with performance-driven features like a water-resistent LiPo compatable ESC, an all-metal gear transmission, aluminum oil-filled shocks and a radio system with Spektrum™ 2.4GHz DSM® [...]
[ My review of the Thundertech Racing Pro-2wd is a two parter. This first part covers the features, assembly, and appearance. The second (coming soon) covers performance, durability, and hop-up potential. ]
I’ve seen the Thundertech Pro-2wd featured in RC Driver magazine, talked about on web forums and blogs, and in videos on youtube. It’s been [...]