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Is it possible to reverse engineer/design a car from the ground up? Of course not.
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It's a lot simpler to reverse engineer an r/c car than design it from scratch, if you've got an original to copy from. It took the designer at Tamiya 3 weeks to draw up the parts in CAD for the Sand Scorcher rerelease, just by measuring the original in their museum and tweaking the weak spots.
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Seems I was reading somewhere that the RC10 was the highest produced car of all time, with estimates being somewhere between 350,000 and half a million (apparently nobody's really sure)
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Someone has been having you on.
Considering racing is about 5% of the whole r/c car market there's no way an expensive race chassis would ever be anywhere near the biggest seller. maybe at American race tracks, but not in general and certainly not worldwide.
Tamiyas Hornet was widely regarded as the biggest seller, I believe Tamiya have hinted in the past to over 700,000 of them sold worldwide. Today the biggest seller by far has to be the Tamiya TT01 chassis, it's been going for so long with so many different bodies it's amazing how many people have had one.