[RobW]

Had both cars and definitely both good cars and you won’t go far wrong with either.



I found the Losi bulletproof - I bought a few spares but can’t remember actually breaking anything. Few issues like with any car but easily solved. Kit diff balls and screw are rubbish – might as well replace when you build the kit – probably cost about £12 tops. Out of the box in some track conditions it did suffer from a lack of rear traction but there is now a lot of set up information available to cure this and most people change the HRC rear block. Not a lot of room under the shell to get your electrics in so you’ll probably end up buying another shell but I found mine went better with a cab forward (FTW) shell anyway which had a load more room underneath.
SV2 kit is a joy to build, it just falls together, and they have done a lot of the work for you like the shell and wing coming pre-cut. Feels like you get quite a lot for your money in terms of nice alloy bits. No need to really buy anything apart from the normal pistons/springs etc to suit track you are running on. If I have to come up with negatives in my experience it is not quite as strong as the Losi – had a couple of breakages (front bulkhead and servo saver) in not particularly bad accidents but then again any car can break if you hit things hard enough. Not trying to suggest it is a weak car in any way -just my opinion that Losi would not have broken in same accident. Also IMHO the rear gearbox seems overly complicated – there really is no need for the external idlers – so neither of 2 SV2s I built had the smoothest of gearboxes I’ve ever experienced but does not seem to affect performance. Also I almost guarantee that you’ll take at least 2 attempts to build the diff first time around due to annoying c clip – once you have it sorted its fine.


For me they are so close that I’d just choose the most popular at the track you are going to race at most or if you have a local shop, which one is best supported.



Rob