Piktor Rush 2 Electric Powered buggy

[pieter]

I did some reading on REDRC (http://www.redrc.net/2008/06/piktor-rush-2-electric-powered-buggy/) and came across this article

French buggy manufacturer Piktor have announced that their are working on an electric version of their 1/8th scale buggy, the Rush 2. Following the current trend, Piktor will enable the use of a brushless motor along with twin LiPo cells, with a kit version as well as an RTR version available in the near future. From the looks of things in the picture, they seem to have done a neat job and it will be interesting to see the final version when it is release



http://www.redrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/piktorrush2ep-1.jpg

[Bondonutz]

Check out those shocks ? WILD....
I beleive they had a 4wd 1/10 electric buggy a few years back also that was a concept that was put to production but didn't hear much about it after it's release ?
I'm curious to see more about this design.

[Jason Maxamps.com]

I thought they went under and then were recently picked up by another European company. It's almost the same as the 1/10th scale buggy design.

Jason

[Bondonutz]

Was the 1/10 scale I was talking about called the "Lazer" , I cant remember ???

[hakmazter]

It is a Caster with different towers....

As far as I know, it never came to fruition.

[Jason Maxamps.com]

From what I have learned about shock positions and how they affect cars I don't see that format working real well.

Jason

[Bondonutz]

From what I have learned about shock positions and how they affect cars I don't see that format working real well.

Jason

Personally, I'd like to see some video of that weird suspension at work.
I don't see how the shocks will work efficiently either ???

[Jason Maxamps.com]

For on road I can see it possibly being ok but for off road I would think they wouldn't work well at all.

Jason

[Bondonutz]

The rear wing looks like it'll get snapped right off too ?
It would with me driving it..
Me thinks the front wing is pure fluff.

[Cain]

on Euro tracks should work well

[Bondonutz]

Euro tracks are predominately flat correct ? Is that the main difference between our tracks and theirs, they are afraid to get air under the chassis ?

[Cain]

funny thing is i think there jumps are probably more to scale than what we do from what video I have seen. we probably are the crazy yanks with the crazy jumps!

[Bondonutz]

funny thing is i think there jumps are probably more to scale than what we do from what video I have seen. we probably are the crazy yanks with the crazy jumps!

Yeah, Aint it a beautiful thing ! Nothing makes me happier than making my trucks FLY like a big bird.
Well, cold beer and big boobs isn't to bad either.

[Doug Lightcap aka: BadAssRevo]

Video,

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/piktor-rush-2-first-run-gp-mbm-2007/87313876

http://www.rceasy.com/2008/06/22/piktor-rush-2-ep-video/

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ng1n_piktor-rush2-18-buggy_sport

[Doug Lightcap aka: BadAssRevo]

Piktor web site,
http://www.piktor-rc.com/catalog/rush2.php?osCsid=8a2f573a88e6c2b039a79b5c427d69d4

[Bondonutz]

Thanks for the video's , all nitro though..
The third video I was able to watch the suspension work and it looked pretty stiff and bouncy. ? But it looked good in the air.

[Doug Lightcap aka: BadAssRevo]

the 2nd one was electric

[Bondonutz]

the 2nd one was electric

Sorry,My bad.
When I was writing my post I was distracted for 10-15 mins and forgot. The EP model did look potent and seemed to perform well with just the short video that it was.