Team c is just the name for the racing division of Hobbypro, they are a big company that have been making buggys for ages. As far as I know the 10th scale division is run and drawn up by a group of guys that are into buggy racing. If I was lucky enough to have the software skill and factory to back it up like those guys do I'd be making a best of both worlds buggy too, no doubt about it.
I find it interesting the way they operate Team C because they average 2.5-3 months from the first CAD to complete buggy in the box in the shop. But they don't seem to do any testing. I guess if you follow certain design rules with 10th scale buggys it's unlikely you will make a bad one, the Tamiya 2wd is almost more B4 than a B4 itself and it works well (obviously it was going to). The Team C is quite a bit more unique than that but it did work well straight up, but what they do is use all the customers as beta testers and it's like the whole world are factory team drivers. They read oople and know what breaks, the distributors like Ansmann and TQ tell them what's breaking often and has a flaw and really within a few weeks the parts are upgraded. They don't even tell anyone the part is changed, it's just running production change.
On the original TC02 when it first come out HEAPS of parts were super lightweight in fact the whole car was miles lighter than is should have been and you have to run lots of weight in them to reach legal weight. A few parts had flaws so over the first 6 months there were changes to lot of things, the latest parts and complete kits are just really really strong, to the untrained eye the parts and buggy are exactly the same. But if you look closely most parts have had a little extra meat put in them on the stress points or made stiffer or more flexible. This kind of way they do things with super fast design and production and running fixes really impresses me. It's not for everyone and some people want a proven product right now... but I kind of have fetish for the underdog and I think most (all) of the other guys that run these cars have that same kind of atitude.
Once way back in the late 80s I read something in a motorcross magazine that I've never forgotten, It said it's not the guy in the shiny boots and branded cloths with a brand new KX250 you need to worry about at enduros, It's the guy in the surplus german army coat and the beat up looking Yamaha IT that's going to hose you. I liked that
I think I'll be proven right that these guys will be right at the top very quickly just going off the hugely fast rate of improvement they are going through right now and there's just endless new cars coming all the time, there's a 1/8th scale brushless racer almost done any day now. TQ racing who sell the cars in the states have already won a couple of national titles this year with the trucks which are especially fast (both the stadium and short course). I hope they can get right to the top because I want the two big sleeping giants Associated and Losi to wake up and realise there's a race going on while they slept. It's a pity the 4wd has an issue with the diff gears since that is a very fast car but I understand the gears are being worked on right now.
I just think the whole thing is great because I've lived though the days when 10th scale was MASSIVE with clubs in every small town around the developed world, then I saw it go to crap in the mid 90s I would love to see it huge again and the more people pushing and the more entry priced cars that can be upgrade into race worth cars, then the bigger it will get