New HotBodies 4WD buggy

[jimmy]

Looks like this is the new entry level/basher/fun version of the D4

[Northy]

Is it just front wheel drive, or does it have a bendy rear prop to go over the stick pack?

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[jimmy]

must be a bendy! strange. it has driveshafts to all wheels - but I Can't see how they can get over the stick pack easily.

[wookiee_racer]

if you look through the hole in the rear upper deck it looks like part of a CV, so they could have done something like the durango. i dont know if you guys where being sarcastic with the comments or not. if you where disregard what i just said

i hope they do what they did with the cyclone and relese it as a sport kit and a RTR. i would rather have a kit over a RTR.

[jimmy]

sarcastic? no I genuinely can't figure out how they have done it - it doesn't look like the spur is high enough but maybe it is.

[Scouser]

Maybe the rear drive is a belt and they have managed to get the belt to squeeze through gaps you wouldn't have thought possible, like this un-named Tamiya driver.
http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/south.../OOP_9016.html

[mog ruith]

now hb too has a mid level buggy coming
heard yokomo is releasing a mid level buggy too???
some kind of trend eh?
eversince the release of tamiya db01

[jimmy]

Originally Posted by Scouser

Maybe the rear drive is a belt and they have managed to get the belt to squeeze through gaps you wouldn't have thought possible, like this un-named Tamiya driver.
http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/south.../OOP_9016.html

[Lee]

or maybe there is a gear coming off the spur and one off the front of the rear diff and the rear propshaft sits higher than usual?

[stegger]

It looks like a smaller shaft at an angle because there's a shaft sandwiched between two rear top decks

[MathewMi2]

Hi,

it's like the TRF501 and the Durga.
Here it's the HB D4 and the new buggy.

Greetings
Mathieu

[telboy]

The spur does seem to be significantly higher than on the proper D4.

On the original car you only get about 5mm of the spur sitting above the top deck, but on this the centre of the spur is almost in line with the top deck.

[wookiee_racer]

they have drift car that has the same rear drive. i am sure they did it like that. http://www.hpiracing.co.jp/

[wookiee_racer]

when was this supposed to be out? i am very interested in this buggy.

[Chequered Flag Racing]

Originally Posted by jimmy

must be a bendy! strange. it has driveshafts to all wheels - but I Can't see how they can get over the stick pack easily.

like this



HPI drift car on HPI Japan site

raised/angled output on rear diff