Thats a bold statement.

Well look at Stu wood. He isnt sponsered by Kyosho or Tamiya, but instead by the host Oople (great choice on sponsering Stu) and he is doing really well. You dont need backing by the manufacturer just a driver that can drive it. But still the ZX5 car isnt that good in standard form. The quality is lacking.

Besides we have gone sideways here, back to the thread. Schumacher should make a new design and throw the old designs in the bin and come up with something new.

They have designed pedegree machines before and they can do it again without the aid of the top drivers. Besides Schumacher has Russell Williams and he is no dab hand at buggies so its not as though they dont have any one good to test the cars is it.

Schumacher have missed the race and fallen way behind, but now they should design something that will put them back up there.

what makes a good test and developement driver is different from a good racer..... the ability to give feedback, constructive criticism and suggestions to the design team is far more important than just 'being quick', and I am not Saying Russ isn't up to it either. Also, need more than one tester too.

I wouldn't like to see them going 'radical' on design though, I would rather a simple, well thought out car.

Well put DCM, simple, easy to work on and use.

Andy wallace does a hell of a lot of development for schuey.

TRUE LEGEND!!!

yup, same is in most sports, in rowing even though im 16, i can coach fairly well but doing it myself is the downfall. Same goes with footie

I think Russ has done 2 off rd meetings in about 3-4 years - F2's at Kidderminster with borrowed cars, and F2's at Holbeach last year with his B4 and my Pred X10.

Matt, will you be running this car?

hhmm... i hope schumacher comes up with something...
 

you dreamer! :D

It would be nice to see them there but I don't know who they could send since they don't have an off road team? Maybe we'll see something after the worlds though.

They might have an offroad team after losi goes tits up.. get on the phone schumacher, its your move !!

lol, very diplomatic! :D Whatever Losi are doing, they are certainly reducing their off road team so I guess there are drivers available. In time for the worlds though? nahhhh, surely they don't have a car that far advanced.?!:o

They would only have to make a couple though:confused:

I remember a few years ago when shuey brought on board 2 of the uk`s finest just for the worlds;)

I have a vision...
 

i can dream can't i? sniff...

seriously though, with some new bits like schuey's new mi3 suspension mounts, harder arms and lighter transmission, the bosscat has world domination potential!
WORLD DOMINATION!
car handles the rough stuff the best i think.
oh, and updated shocks... those old shocks have gotta go.

-alexander
p.s. then again, nah... schumacher's prolly need to ensure mi3's success before they can embark on a new racing project. so it's likely they won't have a team either.

Lol! Return of the Bosscat! That's optimistic isn't it? Great cars in 1992, but I think they'd be lot better off re-releasing the CAT 2000 or 3000 as they would be closer to the pace by far now.

Clearly though it wouldn't be a match for a Laser ZXR/S.

I already race a Bosscat works and the car runs a 5.5 brushless! I just stripped it down for an inspection and the car hasnt bent or broken a thing! I love this car!
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wow, a Bosscat AND a Brat!

lucky pluck!http://www.oople.com/forums/images/icons/icon10.gif

There is now talk or rumor that horizon might be sending a team to the worlds...just have to wait and see....as far as there wheeler...the xx-4 driven by Jesse Robbers won the first main at the shootout last weekend by beating both ryan's, amezcua, easton, tebo, masami, truhe, matsuzaki and howart. Not too bad for a car design that is 10 years old. He also qualified third overall. That is the only reason, I think Losi hasn't come out with a new car yet because of the results they are getting with the xx-4 and xxx-4....but I guess we will have to wait and see.

http://www.hobbiesaustralia.com.au/S...ductID=0077969

probably the wrong place for it but this hobby shop in aus still say they have fireblade evo's for sale.

Rumour has it that Losi will NEVER design a new 4wd, and may stop even making parts for the current cars.

G

Shame if that is the case, it seems in the States that Nitro is still growing very fast and overtaking Electric completely now?

I still think the best compromise would be 1/8th buggy's but with 2 x Lipo's and big bad brushless motors - the sheer ease of running one would be so appealing yet they would still be as indestructable as the normal 1/8th buggy's! Best of both worlds :cool:

Never? One shuld never say never.. dang idid it :D too.. The xx-4 is is a very good car and with the racing history losi got they could not stop making off road cars.. that would be a shame.

remember losi is no more its horizon now

isnt that why gil losi jnr joined kyosho because he had virtually no say anymore:D

Just look at the new losi website, its all about RTR or mini crap.

i even heard that they dont produce the xx4 anymore.

rtr and mini crap is what sell's and pay's the bills

the xx4 was rereleased on a limited edition just under 2 years ago so i think being limited 2 years is a fair time, plus they are continueing doing all spares for it

Rereleasing it was fine, but why stop awinner? The xx 4 is still winning more races than any other car so stop producing it makes no sense..

Because the UK distributor hasn't even sold 15 this year, and Something like 200 worldwide were sold.
Now thats poor by anyones standards, when you consider the Losi 8ight has sold over 20,000 in this year alone and it's only been out for just over a year.

The car may be a winner but it' just not selling, because it's been out for so long now (nearly 11 years) pretty much everyone has either bought one new or off ebay.