rangerg wrote:The batteries didn't make much difference. The car is not fast, but it handles really well. I like it. I have seen complaints about its toughness, but I bash it around (and my daughter accidently ran over it with her bike) - no problems. I did get a small chassis reinforcement piece and stronger wheel locks (all from Atomic mods). These helped. I have had a Losi Micro-T. It actually seemed faster but this steers tighter and just seems more high-end (which it is considering the cost).
I had a losi micro-T too with bearings and oil shocks...the losi was defo way faster but I had 2S lipos in there
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what shocked me with the 4wd mini optima was that you could almost drive full speed in the turns without much understeer... it remotely felt like a 12th scale onroad, and for an offroad it was just too far from an "enjoyable" feel. The MicroT being 2wd, you had to actually
pilot it - the only thing that felt lower-Q in the losi were the hypersmart lexan "turnbuckles". The rest was a very very fine piece of reduction engineering - I actually felt that the optima was too toy-like...
I'd like to see proper races of 4wd offroad miniZ's though
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