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Originally Posted by mark christopher
come on its rtr for little money, your attitude hardly promotes newbies into the sport, heck let em spend £1000 and see if its for them eh!
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But, no person is going to stay in the hobby if they buy something that is toted as 'good enough' which then turns out that they need to spend an extra x amount upgrading all the electrics which were apparantly good enough. From my experience, the kind of people who want to do 1/8th electric don't want to skimp out on costs - it's not a beginner's area at the moment - it's not developed enough for that - and this is proof - the only way it can be made cheaper at the moment is to cut too many corners in the wrong places.
If a company did a 1/8 electronics 'kit' for other cars, for around that price point - then that'd be a good solution. Fine, it still wouldn't be cheap (probably £5-600 RTR), but then it really would be 'good enough' - the approaches taken by Traxxas and HPI for the brushless 1/8 stuff seems to be the best to me, using proven, high quality electronics with a good warranty, and allowing the user to choose their own batteries. No matter which way you cut it, those 3200mAh 20C batteries included in that EP-8 just are not good enough, and the lifetime of those packs will be drastically reduced, won't provide a great run-time (10 minutes maybe?), and they probably aren't 'true 20C' anyway - like many of the 'cheap Ebay job-batteries' out there.