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October 8, 2009

Tamiya F104 Officially licensed Ferrari F60

Tamiya has added a new edition to their 1/10 scale F104 Series line up, with the released of this Officially Licensed 2009 season Ferrari F60. This car looks awesome, featuring 3-dimensional front and rear wings, rear diffuser, side mirrors and aerofoil suspension arms for enhanced realism, not to mention the official sponsors logos on the car. Underneath it is the same F104 essentially with just a few changes such as a 3.2mm thick FRP lower deck a 2mm thick FRP upper deck and a stainless steel rear shaft amongst other things.

Click here for more info and pics from this weeks Tokyo Hobby show

September 3, 2009

CRC Generation-XL 1/12th scale chassis

Calandra Racing Concepts have released their new 1:12th scale Generation-XL, which they claim raises the bar for 1:12th scale racing. In the new version, the ‘XL’ represents the original Gen-X specifically built for LiPo with other performance enhancing features. The car sports the company’s new Encore shock absorber, accepts single cell LiPos with the ability to adjust the mounting position plus a host of other small changes that make up this new car. Coming as a kit it is also available as an upgrade set for current Gen-X owners.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

August 12, 2009

Dutch Phi-nomenon – Corally RDX Phi 09

Seen for the first time at the annual DHI-Cup in Denmark the 2009 Corally RDX Phi is finally here. Based on the successful RDX Phi platform the ‘09’ tourer offers the same versatile layout the previous car did but is specially designed to accommodate the ‘bulky’ LiPo hardcase batteries that are becoming more common these days in various racing classes. Most noticeable are the newly designed and higher bulkheads, new suspension mounts and last but not least a wider chassis plate. What else has the new Corally RDX Phi 09 to offer? We will find out in our review.

Read the full review here

August 11, 2009

Associated Factory Team 12R5.1

The Factory Team 12R5.1 is the latest evolutionary step in Associated’s twenty-five years of 1:12 scale racing history. New for the RC12R5.1 is the wide three-point rear pod that has been optimized for fitting brushless motors as well as heat dissipation. The 12R5.1 is built on a 2.5mm woven carbon fiber chassis that utilizes a pivot-ball link rear suspension that allows for independent adjustments for chassis roll, bump, and alignment.

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July 28, 2009

Mission Possible – Schumacher Mi4

UK based company Schumacher’s range of ‘narrow’ electric touring cars has come a long way, since starting in 1996 with the SST, which turned out to be a very successful TC platform. What followed was the exquisite Axis mid-motor cars that proved difficult to set-up but as fast – if not faster – than the SST range of cars. The current Schumacher TC platform is called Mission and has evolved from the Mi2(EC), Mi3 and Mi3.5 that went back to a more conventional design and suspension geometry compared to the Axis chassis. The latest incarnation is the Mi4 that offers the same race-proven suspension like the Mi3.5, introduced in 2008, but with a more LiPo-friendly chassis and bulkhead layout making it ‘future ready’, with more and more race meetings allowing the use of 7.4V LiPo batteries. We found out what the new UK tourer has to offer.

Read the full review here

June 22, 2009

BMI Racing DB12RR LiPo Edition

As the use of LiPo batteries in the 1/12th scale class has been gaining ground and sanctioning bodies and manufacturers have begun standardizing cell formats, BMI Racing have finally developed a new version of the DB12RR for this class. The LiPo edition features a lower chassis that has been optimized to locate and retain a 4000mah 3.7v LiPo pack. The chassis has had the slot dimensions adjusted to match the pack as well as pocketing of the chassis to lower the pack for optimum center of gravity.

Click here to see the chassis plates

June 13, 2009

Scooby Horton Edition Scalpel conversion

Designed by Javier ‘Scooby’ Horton, produced in cooperation with Skyrocket Racing and Brown Engineering, the Scooby Horton Signature Edition Scalpel claims to be a game changer. It brings the stability and predictability of a 1/12 scale pan car to the 1/18 scale direct drive world. This conversion kit consists of a new 6 cell chassis that extends the wheelbase to 150mm, a larger more consistent center shock, custom side dampening tubes, a redesigned upper pod plate, angled servo mounts and redesigned fiberglass t-bars, this conversion provides a comprehensive performance increase to an already potent micro pan car. The tunablility of this kit makes it at home on asphalt or high bite ozite. Running Skyrocket batteries Scooby used the pre-production version of this kit to take the Micro Great Lakes Challenge Pan Car stock class at Hobby Stop West in Toledo Ohio, by a whopping 3 laps. There are 3 versions the 6 cell chassis, and the Oval chassis, both of which are available now. The Lipo chassis version shown in the photos is in the final stages of testing and will be debuting very soon.

Click here to see the LiPo version

June 10, 2009

Greyscale Racing MRCG1.1 pan chassis

Greyscale Racing have released their new 1/28 competition pan chassis, the MRCG1.1. The MRCG1.1 is the highly-anticipated successor to the original MRCG, a car that helped revolutionize the 1/28 racing scene. Built on the same proven layout as the original car, the 1.1 features a 1.5mm woven graphite chassis, geometry updates throughout the car and a refined version of the original Virtual centre Pivot rear suspension that makes the car even stronger, faster, and easier to drive and tune.

Click here for more information and photos