first of all, that pic that Darren linked to is ridiculous... if I had just been shown that pic I'd say someone had been dicking around with photoshop 'effects' and a Durango 410 picture.
secondly, xxx4 geometry is/was miles off anyting that is out there now, the diff's are too big to get anything near geometry that works so I wouldn't say that the B44 is a copy of that, neither is any other car that I can think of.
the diff's were too low on the shelf weapon (TC) that went from off-road to on-road, and the diff's were too high/big on the xxx4 that came from an on-road xxx-s.
evolutions in geometry that seems to happen with TC's, 8th scale nitro, 10th scale off-road is 'copying' a little bit, but there are only so many effective ways you can setup some double-wishbone suspension and soon people fall on what seems to be an optimum.
but a blatent reverse engineering job without any changes to method of fixing bits together, geometry, even bodyshell is so so wrong!
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