Saturday, December 29, 2007

Active Hobby A210SS Touring car

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Active Hobby A210SS Touring car

Active Hobby have released images of the production version of their A210SS touring car chassis. As we showed you before this car has been designed with sports racing in mind and is essentially a reduced size 190mm touring car with dual belts, front C-hub system, front and rear ball diffs as well as front and rear CVD’s. The car is still a true racing machine with a low centre of gravity, stiff chassis, adjustable settings such as toe and roll centres and has lightweight carbon fibre used throughout.

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GRP Gandini

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Active Hobby A210SS Touring car

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Active Hobby A210SS touring car

Japanese firm Active Hobby have released further information on their latest project, a 1/12th scale 4wd touring car called the A210SS that we showed you back in the start of September. Designed with sports racing in mind, this car is essentially and reduced size 190mm touring car with dual belts, front C-hub system, front and rear ball diffs as well as front and rear CVD’s. The car is still a true racing machine with a low centre of gravity, stiff chassis, adjustable settings such as toe and roll centres and has lightweight carbon fibre used throughout.

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Losi 8ight

Monday, September 3, 2007

Active Hobby release new 1/12 EP AWD Touring Car

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Active Hobby release 1/12 EP AWD Touring Car

Japanese company Active Hobby have released this first picture of what they are describing as a new and purely original 1/12 scale electric powered touring car design. Called the A210ss the all wheel drive chassis, which is set for release in December, features fully adjustable long span suspension and will run on supplied 54mm rubber tires. Active Hobby will annouce further details of the A210ss in October.

Source: Active Hobby [active-hobby.com]

Team C Racing

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Active Hobby Racing ART cooling head

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Active Hobby Racing ART cooling head

Active Hobby of Japan have announced that they will be selling this new cooling for both O.S. TZ12 and .12 Novarossi based engines. Its super lightweight, keeping the cars center of gravity low, and is deisgned in such a way as to improve the air flow and cooling around the engine head, while the colour coating is very efficient at dispersing heat. Available in matt red, matt blue (above) and gun metal grey.

Source: Active Hobby [active-hobby.com]

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Active Hobby prototype bodyshell

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Active Hobby prototype bodyshell

A quick piece of news from Japanese firm Active Hobby, who have shown their new prototype 1/10th scale 200mm bodyshell on their website. Still in development, the version pictured above is a pre production type with the completed shell expected to be ready for sale in May.

Source: Active Hobby [active-hobby.com]

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Active Hobby maintenance stands

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Active Hobby maintenance stand

Japanese company Active Hobby have released this very nice looking rotating maintenance stand for your off road buggy or Truggy. They come in 2 colours, blue and black, and look very cool and whats better is that when not in use the legs can fold up so the whole thing is a lot smaller and can be put away in your tool box with little problems. Active Hobby have also released a number of other neat items that you can check on their site here.

Source: Active Hobby [active-hobby.com]