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Originally Posted by nativepaul
In essence it is on-road for buggies with road car bodies, road racing for those that don't want to have to vacuum the track before running to avoid crashing, that could take place in bumpy car parks as well as specially prepared tracks. It started with people converting buggies with road tires and stiffer suspension but has progressed to specially designed cars, there are quite a few available ranging from the most popular and probably the worst the Kyosho Inferno GT which is still basically a stiffened buggy but done by the factory, to more specialised race bred ultralight machines with belt drive and ball diffs the pinnacle of which is probably the Cronos SP9 which I'm loath to post a picture of because it makes my buggy look like a shed in comparison, but is too awesome not to so heres the pic.
I just have to ask for no posts saying how awesome the SP9 is without mentioning my car too please, I wish I could afford an SP9 but even with all the carbon and if I added a set of titanium turnbuckles it would still be twice the cost of mine at £600. |
This is a huge delay in your answer, but the thread was updated back in april so I'll answer it i guess.
Rally Game is the process of converting/designing 1/8th and 1/7th scale on-road cars using standard 1/8th scale drivetrain. Essentially most of the Rally Game cars are simply 1/8th scale buggies that use 1/8th truggy chassis and center drives for a longer wheel base, and the buggy A-arms. They often are low slung and just as indestructable as their 1/8th scale counterparts.
Recently the "Rally Game" moniker has been modified to "GT8" to indicate that these are 1/8th scale GT cars essentially.
Examples of factory GT8 cars would be the following:
Kyosho Inferno GT1 and GT2
Hobao Hyper One Seven Evolution (1/7th scale very modified Hyper 7 chassis.)
Hot Bodies Lightning Street
OFNA Ultra GTP
OFNA DM-1 Pro and Spec
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