Where did you hear that???

Can some one tell me when mike is selling them? I am waiting.

thats not too bad. was that lhs price or an online site? do they have a release date?

My good friend at the lhs just ordered 6 of them and based on his cost we figure they will be between 350 and 375. This means that they will most likely go for less than 350 online when they come out. I have already had him put one aside for me. Will have to check and see if they show the different colors on traxxas website, I will go with either the black or blue!

Wow, that is a good price. Awesome to hear about the diffs as well. I'm sure we'll see alot of these cropping up on the Ebay chopshops. :)

Maybe that does leave room for an ERevo then. I just hope it isnt a plastic chassis, and the price really can't go over $500 or I don't see enough people buying it to make it to market. Its still a nitro's world (for now.)

Asking the LHS owner why the Tmaxx is even stocked so much w/ the Revo as a much better truck, basically "they both say 45 mph on the box, and when people come in to look at them, they see that and the Maxx as $100 less. In the end more people walk out w/ maxxes."

that totally makes sense when you are talking about new buyers. I actually have a friend that bought a tmaxx a few months ago. He told me after he already picked it up, my first question was why he didn't get the revo. To him they were the same thing (Monster trucks) that went the same speed so why spend the extra $$$.

Why didn't Traxxas make it brushless from the get go?

Two reasons in my opinion.

#1 COST
#2 There own system is not ready yet.

They could've waited until a system was ready and then that tittle "NEXT" would make sense to me.

I semi agree. I think they also know that people like to use other systems as well. This leaves it open to the purchaser and keeps the price down.

Very true :smile:

I think cost is their main concern. I imagine for every 3.3 Revo they sell (their most expensive vehicle aside from the large gas buggy), they probably sell 2 Maxx vehicles or maybe 3 Bandit/Rustler/Stampedes. Most folks aren't going to walk into a hobby shop off the street and want to drop $500 on a RTR BL vehicle unless it's advertised at at least the speeds of the nitro vehicles.

Put it like this. Most of the members here have a brushless system and would not even bother going back to the old set up. Most spend over $500 just to get a decent BL system. Now if Traxxas came out with a RTR BL version for around $500-600, I think it is a bragain.

I think your right sean :smile:. I pretty sure they do ALOT of market research before investing ther money.

you have to remember we are die hards here. Most of the people that have rc truck's are not willing to spend the kind of money on our toys as we do here in my opinion . I bet we are a very small percentege of the intire rc market