I too thought "plastic toy" when I saw the FS, it's a similar story with the B-MAX too. They look plastic fantastic but in reality they are great cars!
Honestly, a lot of the alloy and CF parts included on 1/10 buggies are just bling and really don't serve a good purpose that aids the performance of the car, sure it probably increases durability but not that much.
In 1/8 scale, the 808 was released by Xray and stepped back a little from all the fancy aluminium braces, cnc parts e.t.c and was very very plastic, turned out it was the toughest damn thing at the track.
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