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Zinno
Traxxas Employee

We definitely produced the car. It was a VERY limited edition product. There are very very few remaining Wildcats in existence and unfortunately there are no compatible parts remaining in our warehouse. If it breaks it will be very difficult to find replacement parts for it.

I suspect that this car originated from that far-eastern Knock-Off model company that has made more than its fair share of clone cars in its time… I am referring to the Blue Bird model manufacturing company of Taiwan, My Super Baja (Optima Clone) and my Robbe Cheyenne (Fox Clone) were also made by this company but this car (like the Cheyenne) has been repackaged and sold by System Robbe, this car was sold by Traxxas under the “Wild Cat” name in their very earliest days, It had a slightly different front suspension set up (duel shocks) but was same car all the same and the only 4WD EP buggy sold by them but it was not on sale for very long as it was felt by many that the car was a little too close a copy of the Tamiya Hotshot so it was quickly withdrawn from sale… but a few years later Robbe picked up the design and sold it under their own name

Personally I wouldn't pay $20 for that hotshot ripoff, but that's just my 2 centsThat's not a Wildcat. It looks like it's probably the BlueBird version of it with the mono front shock. The Wildcat had two front shocks & 4 rear shocks, though one set of the rear shocks were for extra dempening and had no springs. The chassis were a bit different and the suspension arms were a little different too.

I have a nib Wildcat too. They were made by Bluebird in Taiwan. The nice man at Traxxas told me they were an "Unauthorised release" by the manufacturer and should not have had the Traxxas name on them. Iterestingly, if you look at the Traxxas website history page you will see that they list their first release as being the Traxxas Cat in 1987. The manual and parts catalogue I have with my Wildcat is dated 1986.