Marvin,
We have shown the VE to many shops and customers and magazines.
The feedback is the car is solid and strong.
It is a 7.5 Inferno a car that was wholly designed by Kyosho to win the world championship. This it succeded to do twice.
So the design of the car is that of a purebreed racer unlike the ones you quoted.
I dont think the others are bad cars especially,Its just that the VE is worth considering in this market for many reasons and not to be dismissed too easy.
The other comment we had is that option to run the car with 3 different power settings that coud give you up to one hour of running on one pack of batteries is a great selling point to those people who want to start in rallycross. you can easily change between the one pack, two packs in series or parallel for 7.2 or 14.4 volts. or 3 cell packs for somewhere in the middle. I can imagine that a racer will want 14.4 volts for speed but if they had a son or a daughter its real easy to run at 7.2 volts for less speed. I would call it beginner mode.
Castle creation ESC and motors are very good but consider the price in comparison to a whole car of about £350!!!
I never reccomend buying products overseas as you are very unlikely to get any warranty cover. Also at the price you quoted you are not including duty i guess?
The modern competition cars are designed more for performance, some makes are very strong and withstands more abuse than others.
But the 7.5 has a reputation for being built like a tank and yet can still hold its own on a track.
As a final comment you said Kyoso RTR's are a re-hash of old designs!!!!!
Kyosho make approx 20 ready to run cars. Apart from the 7.5 they are all original designs.
If you want to dig further back Kyosho was one of the makes that started making Radio control cars available to the masses. If you look at many of the cars on the market today they owe a lot to Kyosho.
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