[Garry]

Most things team drivers say = stuff to please the sponsors.

Wouldn't touch that Intech thing with a barge pole on basis of principle. They could win the next Worlds with it, but I wouldn't buy it as its a ripoff of the original design.

Whats likely to have happened here (in my opinion, it'll probably be proven wrong later lol) is that....

TD design a car, and go to a factory in the Far East to manufacture it. They do an agreement that the factory makes XYZ units for XYZ years, with the option to renew the deal incase the car proves unbeatable in Model Shops over a number of years (think AE B4/Thunder Tiger for example). When the deal reaches the end, TD may have decided not to renew the deal, and request one/all of the technical designs back. For whatever reason, the factory has looked at the success of 10th Off Road and thought ''we want a bit of that'' and boom, used the designs of the car they made to be sold under their own brand.

Now, Tamiya, Schumacher and HPI all have had this happen in the past with 100% clones of their own cars (manufactured 3rd party OEM then stolen as a new car), and legal action followed, so maybe the factories stealing designs like this have decided to change a couple of things to keep laywers off their backs (the gearbox on this car).

Its definitely unethical and definitely wrong.