German company Shepherd have announced at the Toy Fair that they have signed reigning European electric indoor and outdoor electric touring car Champion Ronald Volker to their team for 2 years. Ronald will race the Velox V10 with LRP engines at National and International events with the goal being the 2012 World Championships in Thailand.
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Italian company Fastom have their two competition brands Motonica and the new VOX engine brand represented on the same stand. Beside their already released Otto V.1 3.5cc on road engine they have three all new .21 engines on display, two of which are buggy engines. The Otto C.1 Cross engines come in standard 5 port and ‘tuned’ 5+2 port versions, with the latter additionally featuring a lightened and balanced crankshaft and hard chromed liner. The third and final new motor is the Otto V.1 Rally engine which is a 7+2 port type for use in the Rally game class.
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Team Losi are represented at the Horizon Hobby stand and their latest and greatest is the Reedy Race winning TLR22. This long wheelbase 2wd buggy has been causing quite a sensation in the US and UK and winning all around it. We already know the details of this new car so we wont go into them but we are told it will be available in Europe by the end of March.
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Kyosho once again have a large booth showing their diverse range of products to the assembled masses. On the stand was the follow up to their multiple World Championship winning V-One platform, the R4. This all new 200mm chassis has been designed from the bottom up with help from team drivers Adrian Bertin and Takaaki Shimo. Featuring really small diameter differentials gives the car a lighter drivetrain and this also helps obtain the car’s super low centre of gravity. Sporting aluminium lower suspension brackets, there is the two piece rear block configuration as seen on its competitors, an adjustable servo saver position and an all new 2-speed gearbox. We are told that the only parts carried across from the old car were the shock absorbers.
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Team Orion have a huge selection of new products on their stand with the standout product being the new line of 90C LiPo batteries. The Carbon Pro series comes in all the usual formats, 1S, Saddle, Stick, 1/8th version, and is able to achieve this new C rating through the use of a new separator in the cell that allows higher current. While they admit that the wires cant handle the full output of the battery, it does give a lot more torque to your motor.
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Again with an impressive display of products, this year sees only a small number of additions to this ever growing line. Two new products in their liquids line include after run oil and air filter oil, while in the tool range there is the previously announced universal handle for using power driver tips and their new clutch tension adjustment tool. Hudy are also displaying their new line up of aluminium servo arms.
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Xray have a larger booth this year to accommodate their growing range of products the featured one being their all new 1/8th scale on road chassis. As told in their previous column and as you saw in the previous story to this one, the RX8 is a pretty standard affair for a car in this class with its only stand out feature being the legendary Xray quality. Using Hudy spring steel for the drive train and front oneway it also carries over some parts from its World Champion brother, the NT1, with the shock absorbers and receiver box the same. Its a very nice looking car too, in all black, and from all accounts it goes really well on the track too.
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Xray have released information on their all new RX8 1/8th scale platform. We have talked with the guys on the Xray stand here in Nuremberg, played with the car and taken our own photos but as we write that story, here are the release photos and features list of the new car.
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