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Originally Posted by maseace
I think some people are missing the point, the mad rat is a great starting point and you can learn and grow with the car until you are at a standard and you are sure you want to take it up as a full time hobby then spend the money on a better car, you can by the kit 50 spend another 30-40 on all the correct hop ups and bang a nice little race car.
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Tamiya made the same point when i started buying kits.. you buy the car & hop it up & grow the car with your skills & experience & use it as a learning exercise. Ansmann are doing the exact same thing.
The difference is though, if for example you buy a Tamiya TT-01 & spend £300+ on hop-ups you would only have a TT-01 with a load of hop-ups added to it that is going to be no good for racing, so it makes more sense to buy a TRF & spend the money on that (or even save money) f you are going to spend a fortune, however with the Ansmann cars, you can spend £300 on hop-ups & have a car that is as good as the best 2WD racing buggies that the pro's use.. even with a £50 car as standard you can be competitive & nothing pleases me more than seeing a mad-rat taking on & beating cars that are more than double the cost.
I know there are some who say the Ansmann's are a bad car (i hear it often - usually from people who never owned an Ansmann or if they did it was on older car such as the Smacker or the Terrier with brushed Clash motors fitted), a lot of this comes down to brand snobbery as there who see a couple of zero's extra on the price ticket or the decimal point being moved a place to the right being the indication of a good car. also there are some critics who say to make the ansmann competition worthy you have to throw your credit card at it, but at the end of the day, what car don't you have to do that if you want to do well in competition?