I used to have brushed controllers of lrp, the irc, ics stuff, and in my opinion the best and most reliable brushed-esc's to have. as far as I can tell as a "backyard-basher".
nowadays with brushless, what I have read about eg. the A.I. brushless escs (not that excellent), it's a bit sad that lrp is probably not top of the shelf anymore.

reg. the motors, motors always have been manufactured (and developped) by other companies, so thats not new and not a shame.

I think sensored esc's make sense in 1/8, due to the higher rotating masses, it might make it smoother. at least for racer-dudes. once the thing is rolling, it's not a problem.

I'm curious if that little cute sphere will be capable of a 1/8 buggy or even a truggy... if they were close enough to the scene, they would have had enough time to develop a new (6s) esc, but except a few brands, they're all sleeping.they already have the software and know-how, only would have to increase the capacity.

I have a cheapo chinese esc which works flawlessly, except the missing proportional break :oops: ... no smoke signs so far, no matter how hard the abuse is.

anyone heard anything about LRP releasing a conversion kit for the buggy? since the buggy appears to be the Z-Car over here from what I have been told, looks like a nice cheap conversion.

anyone got pics of RC Monster's conversion on the Z-Cars?

Vector8 and SPX8 are available in Europe now. Has anyone had a try? The SPX8 is really small and light (45g). Vector8 has 13mm rotor (not 15-16mm like others) but overall size is the same. Only two different kv versions of them.

Would like to hear how they perform?

regarding the discussion about the motors used by LRP:
they seem to bee exactly the same like the Speed passion ones, at least on older pics they're absolutely the same. On newer pics LRP's motors have fins. Just have a look; and they are produced by feigao. But I hope that at least their esc are developped by themselves.

I was thinking that too until i noticed this...

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...pbr0402092.jpg