...You can anyway practice for the nationals at least Jimmy ;-)

I did not clearly understand in Mossy's post how certain was CATSX ready for Sunday...but my english is for sure too bad !! :-(

To my mind the car looks really great....waiting for more pics...and for my kit to arrive at home once available :-)

I like it, just would like to see more of it ! Do we really have to wait till next week :)

Looks superb... :)

that is the mutts nuts :woot: would mind one of them babys for this year :drool:

Hey longnose :-)

Are you going to have one for Köngen already? I managed to get in for 2WD and am first nachrücker for 4WD.

Funny the paint job would be the German flag :woot: Wonder if that has anything to say :eh?:

Looks like it's the mixed views that i think most of us were expecting. I have to admit, i like the shell, i said that when i first saw it - and that was with the paint job that isn't quite as nice as this one!! (only a few people will know what that means!!)

Es ist beiderseitiges Interesse vorhanden .Alles weitere ist Spekulation.
Für Köngen wirds aber wahrscheinlich schon von Schumacherseite nicht reichen.

Cruise

looks good, now lets see inside!:thumbsup:

very bulky looking wingmounts.. :(

Like the saying goes.

' Don't Judge a book by its cover '

...

those rear "CVDs" sure look different .

I say patience guys .
wait till you see it w/o the body.

interesting it looks like there might be a molded chassis under that undertray the way the step is contoured. is it my imagination or can you see some stuff where the body and undertray meet at the front.. could just be a trick of the light.:confused:

Is it me or do the shocks look very short, especially the fronts, it might just be the colours breaking it up and playing tricks on my eyes.

I quite like the shell though, the wing looks odd, but the car looks cool, bit fat though:lol:

I dunno what to say, I am neither whooooa, and I am not ewwww, I will admit that the shell is out of proportion and nothing a good paint job can't compensate for. But really, I don't see ANY problems why they couldn't take a naked pic or two either, to show layout and component positions though.

At least there are pics though.... hope they aren't using the same people that make the Mi3 driveshafts to make the SX driveshafts though!

Reminds me of a Tamiya, especially with the ugliest body I've ever seen. I hope to god that the body doesn't have to be that shape to clear gears or whatever, that way a new body can be made that doesn't look like a reject from Tyco (did you guys have Tyco over there?) in the 80s.


The car itself sure looks indestructible. Everything's incredibly thick. Shock towers, shock mounts, arms look thicker than normal to me, wing mounts, etc.


What is with the wing mounts? Are they just designed to be super adjustable and super strong?

Don't know if this has been posted elsewhere but i've just got this off the MK-Racing web site:


The limited information on the spec that we have been given by Schumacher is as follows:
4wd transmission using 3 belts
Changable internal drive ratio's of 2.2:1 / 2.4:1 / 2.6:1
Motor rotates it the same direction as the wheels
Clamp type motor mount
Narrow chassis (approx 100mm wide) with 4/2 saddle pack slots
Carbon fibre chassis & towers
Alloy transmission cases Rev-lite wheels & Schumacher tyres




Lee, from the front the shocks do appear fairly short, but one of the other pics from the rear, makes them look a more normal length. We'll have to wait and see.....

No, they were designed in the eighties when the plastics were made of cheese. Seriously, those wing mounts have been on every Schumacher offroad car since the very first cat!

Why don't they bring back crashback front ends :confused:

Man, thats ugly , shaw it may change but right now thats ugly,well to me it is.

mmmmmm.... cheeeeeese..... can't wait to taste them:thumbsup:


what's a crashback front end?

I don't think that is strictly true now is it. First fitted to the Topcat and Procat. The CAT had pianno wire :eh?::lol:

Ooops :) My bad

The crachback front end had the A-arms and shock attached to the car over a hinge and were kept together with rubber bands. Brilliant system. You could smack it into things and your car would just bend back into shape...

Who cares what it looks like, as long as its fast, a car that wins is always good looking:thumbsup:

Must say that its the first thing to make me think twice about buying the Serpent when it comes out:drool:

Hmm thats a lovely looking paint job!:thumbsup: Wonder who did that for them?;)

I've got a mixed view of it really. Not seen one in the flesh, but it seems to have carried some bits over from the Mi3. I see they've kept the 'shim' set up from the TC. I think the wing will just get replaced when people buy the car.
Not sure on the shock mounts, they look a bit TC'ish too. But I suppose that they may be more resilient, the smaller they are?

The shell does look a little strange, but then if it goes well then who cares.

Looking forward to seeing the insides to see how its all laid out.

Did they photoshop away the reflections of the bottom of the chassis?

It's certainly up to Schumachers standards of non-conformity. There are certainties in life.

Well it's interesting to hear everyone's different opinions on the look, and just to prove the old saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder - I think it looks awesome!

Bring back the Cat 2000 shell !!!!!

On a serious note, what is Phil Booth on ? I'd like to meet his dealer...

You mean through the windows?
If so, no. They wanted it painting with limmo windows to keep the peering eyes out!!:D

They have another though with clear windows.:thumbsup: Not sure when they'll use it though.

will the car be at worksop on the 23rd

Are you running it at the last Worksop round Si or are you playing with noisy cars at the Neo?

It's been used......:thumbsup::D

Is that the servo sticking out of the side of the car there? at the front, actually it looks like one of my core Lipo's ?
I guess now the piccies are out that I can say I saw a video of this car going round Eastrax and it looked awesome over the jumps. :thumbsup:http://www.racing-cars.com/images/ca...ide_1000_n.jpg

It looks more like the servo as the corerc Lipo is more rounded unless you meen the 5000 Lipo:confused: were can we see this video rob???

My 5000 lipo is definatly square, Video won't be on the internet I was shown it :) And thats all I am going to say.

The shell looks very "FG Marder" to me.... cant wait to see what it looks like on the inside.

I LOVE the look of that buggy. Might just have to buy one :woot:

Congrats to the design team for not being tempted to produce a clone.

I like new stuff.

I like some of the features on it, some I don't like. but as someone said before, if it is fast, people will start to like it more, I thinking Subaru Impreza, the bug eye one, looked ugly in the showroom, but when it was in its rally dress hooning around rally stages it look ace!

One of the Schumacher managers in the USA was slagging it off on rctech.net but it seems to have been removed now.

Any updates on whether It'll be at Stotfold?

But it's ok, because Jimmy quoted him - oh you bitch! :lol::lol:

G

I merely 'called him out' on what he'd said since I thought he was slightly in the wrong. :lol:

very wrong
if he works for them
but i guess its a forum and were all entitled to are opinions