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5/7/2012
By Mike Garrison
LiveRC.com
Over the past several years Joseph Quagraine has been working relentlessly developing an entirely new 1/8 buggy, mass producing the buggy, building a company/team, and constantly looking to improve. More recently JQ has released a line-up of upgrades and option parts for THECar. Take majority of those option parts, a handful of all-new upgrades, and THEWinning attitude put towards all JQ Products, and you have an all-new THECar "Yellow Edition"!
JQ Press Release:
THECar is now about 1 and a half years old, and it is time for a serious update. Already during the first year, we updated a lot of parts, including the plastics and the hingepins. All these changes were due to problems with durability. We do not think it is acceptable that THECar breaks in what can be considered normal crashes, so we acted fast, improving the strength of THECar.
The next step, was to improve the handling. During the end of last year, we tested a lot of ideas, and we were able to improve the handling enough, that we felt that we have to release a new car, the Yellow Edition. From now on every new car will be accompanied with a colour. This is because THECar, will always be THECar. But for clarity's sake, for example when ordering spare parts, it is good to have some way of differentiating between different versions.
As for the changes, they have mostly been made in an effort to make THECar both faster, and easier to drive. Over the next couple of weeks we will release information about the changes, and why we did them. For now, just check out these first pictures:
THE Car Specifications:
Vehicle: 1:8 Nitro 4WD
Width: 307mm
Wheelbase: 324-328mm
Weight: 3240g*
Internal Gear Ratio: 3.3:1
- NEW narrower, symmetrical and more flexible chassis. For more traction, and better when landing jumps, or driving over bumps.
- NEW sideguards to match the new chassis.
- NEW Bodyshell to match the new chassis.
- NEW Improved smoother shocks, with soft bladders and CNC shock caps. These improve every aspect of the handling. THECar is easier to drive.
- NEW Shock springs, Soft, Medium and Hard.THECar includes Med and Hard as standard.
- NEW 3 shoe clutch shoes, for increased performance. Now it actually works :-)
- NEW larger capacity fueltank with O-ring cap seal for improved sealing.
- Smooth Gearing, (43/13) and (45/13) included as standard.
- Extra set of stiffer swaybars included, 2.4 and 2.5.
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