LOL...Intech’s ER-12 2WD 1/10 Buggy.... Look familiar??
 

Does this look like something we have seen before??

And a nice quote from Intech:
" the design team have focussed on not following the trends and other designs, opting to design the car from the ground up with the customer in mind " :lol:

http://www.neobuggy.net/wp-content/u.../intech2wd.jpg

more info
http://www.neobuggy.net/2013/07/26/i...2wd-110-buggy/

Were the designs sold or did these slip out the back door of the factory

Although this looks a lot like a car we all know so well I do like some of the changes they have made (gear diff, shocks, steering rack etc). A link to the companies product page..............

http://www.intechracing.com/news_detail.asp?sn=96

lol I like this line ..... the design team have focussed on not following the trends and other designs, opting to design the car from the ground up

I thought it was understood that it was based on the DEX210, rather than pretending it is something totally new?

http://www.msuk-forum.co.uk/topic/17...2wd-buggy-kit/

Maybe this is part of the reason why DEX210 kits are so cheap now.

Lol, were they refering to their own design team though?
Looks like someone's bulk bought a load of 210's and selling them on...

Maybe Team Durango have sold on the rights to the older Dex210 as they have a new platform on the way and want to both raise investment for newer developments and maximise the return on previous developments rather than just let that design be superceded internally?

Intech on the hand may be looking to enter the 2wd market and want an established, low risk, quick to market, solid platform as a basis for their first outing?

It does look like it might be connected to the Durango sales though..?

That's a hell of a car with all the alloy and carbon! Love that it comes with the alloy anti-squat mounts and all the alloy shock caps, lovely :) How much!

Perhaps Durango sold their design seeing as they're coming up with the DEX210 V2 soon? Or maybe they have a V2 coming out very soon because they've noticed this car!

Interesting they seem to have 'upgraded' some areas but not some other possible problems :lol:

I think its probably a vernier caliper copy....

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It's the cloned cousin of the DEX210...but with added extra's. Thing being here is the company know they will have a car that works immediately

It's very much a copy of the 210 yeah... What strikes me is that Intech racing is based in Taiwan, and I recall that the DEX210 is actually produced in Taiwan as well... I'm curious if/how that is related to each other... :eh?:

As for the car: It looks a lot like a DEX210 and the geometry probably is exactly the same, but the devil is in the details: How small the tolerances on the parts are, to what degree warped moulded parts make it to the customer, how consistent the quality and strength of the material is, etc.

i like the red transparent gear cover and the shock bladders

Would be cool if some parts transfer over. Like the gear cover, towers, battery strap.
Wonder what that pricing will be?
As mentioned I hope its good quality parts or people will end up upgrading it to a 210

Looking at the pictures side by side the only difference is the gearbox. Theirs is wider which means the rear wishbones are shorter hence their claimed 'totally different rear geometry'.
The only other major difference is the cut down sides of the battery compartment - which is even funnier when you realise that the bit they've cut out is where the original has a Durango star molded into the plastic!

The thing is we don't know whether Durango or Kingstar has the design rights, or what the deal is with Hobbico. Just to confuse things even more, when the DEX210 was created Durango was owned by Kingstar. If Kingstar has the design rights and Hobbico doesn't have an exclusivity clause in their contracts with Kingstar, then there's nothing to stop Kingstar selling the kits to anyone who wants to buy and rebrand them, assuming these cars are coming from the same production line as the Durangos as that is surely more likely than a company copying a design coming from a factory less than a hundred miles away.

copys
 

Have a look at the intech br6 buggy looks like a xray / durango copy

Make sure to update this thread when we work out the price :)

Ok it's no big secret I worked for a couple of years at Team Durango before I went freelance. I worked on the kit page for that car on my own - and looking at this kit page, I think If I'd had a shandy or two I'd become confused and think it was my own kit page (but not quite as well executed).

They even copied that side by side thing, it's crackers. As for the car - wow, It's a proper bullshit full-on stolen design.

For the principal that they copied my kitpage - I don't want this car being promoted (links to where to buy it for example) on this forum.

http://www.msuk-forum.co.uk/topic/17...cat-%E2%80%A6/

This puts it pretty well. Basically fully ripped off, the design isnt even oem (or patented for that matter though)

If you buy this car - you are a bell end, basically.