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Originally Posted by RSharpy
The RB5 used to retail at £160 it's only due to the exchange rate that as sent it to £240+. But you would expect Ansmann to have simlar issues in todays climate? Where are they based?
They have done well to price it at £139, on the face of it the quality looks good. So does the design with it being so close to an RB5 its fair to say it will perform well.
No doubt about it a lot will ride on the shocks as to wheather the Pro-X cuts the mustard.
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Just a few pointers here
Ansmann have obviously saved on R&D by blatantly copying the RB5, making a couple of changes here and there, et voila, cheap car because you've not spent months and months testing different solutions etc...
Kyosho make a point on producing everything in house in japan, which is why with the massive drop in the value of the GBP (and simultaneous ncrease in the value of the Jpn Yen, I am here comparing both to the dollar), the Kyosho kits could no longer be sold at the prices we'd seen before. The good thing is that the quality of Kyosho kits is excellent and consistently so.
I suspect Ansmann are producing in a cheap labour country that hasn't got such a strong currency and probably deal in dollars.