My prediction is it will use lipo since pretty much all rc cars have gone to lipo. With smaller battery size they could change chassis layout around for better handling. The current 4 batteries take up quite a bit of space, there is only so much variation you can do to fit all the pieces in.
Seeing the details on the body, second guess is the new car will use specific fitting kits like on Dnano so each car will be an exact scale rather than fudge scale. That would make mini-z more unique.
thanks for the pic lithium...
but if ct didn't point out that the front end was different, i would'nt have known...
what else is different... ah what suspense... man this is killing me...
maybe it's a type of mini-sport chassis, kind of like the tamiya 1/10 m-chassis for the cooper and suzuki swift. i say this because it looks kind of short in length. just speculation
I don't think the chassis is short. That's just the angle of the page/rolled up a little.
New front end may be for performance, but I think it's more like the Tamiya IFS front end in that it's probably designed for clearance with lower profile bodies.
Maybe they did shorten the chassis and switched to shorter lipo cells in sync with the shorter 2.4 boards? Or maybe it is just a page bend...
I just wish Kyosho would have a little more friendliness to at least inform their die-hard customers over here in the states... I'm sure we all spend enough on these cars to at least warrant a heads up thread! We're always finding out about this stuff through posts which guide you to either Asian or European websites.
Just griping...
Oh... is the steering linkage on the underside now?... maybe I'm just seeing things. I don't see any tower bars either? Hmmmm... hope we can just flip our alloy steering knuckles over.
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I'm going to assume this is a standard length chassis, probably 98mm as shown in the pics due to the wheels(enzo) and the motor mount.
The main things I see that are different is:
- the large antenna on top (2.4??)
- new battery clips (lightened perhaps)
- low profile front end (to accept some of the dnano equivalent bodies we haven't seen yet)
- steering clip attached on top deck(probably to accomodate the low profile front end)
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I agree with CT. The front end looks different, everythig else is typical.
The antenna isnt real big. You can see it doesnt even make it to the top of the page. Its the same size as the current ASF antenna as far as I can tell.
The page bend does make the car look shorter, but you can obviosly tell the page is curved, and part of it is hidden. Thats what makes the battery clips look different too. Once you take into consideration the page bend, they look just like whats currently on MR02s.
Some one pointed out that it looks like the tie rod is on the bottom. Maybe the knuckles are more like the F1 knuckles, which would create a bit more space (tucking the spring inside). Sorry Ed, but I dont think the current MR knuckles would work well upside down. The spring doesnt work if its under the knuckle, lol....and all the cambered knuckles would be camered the wrong way.
Looks like the link is on the bottom similar to
F1s.
Probably running shortened f1 knuckles. If
that is the case, not much incentive to
upgrade from the 02 with all the stuff out
(and coming out) for it... You'd need a
hobby grade micro servo or crazy cool
suspension to warrant that.
They are not rtr? You'd think the production
costs would have evened out by now to offer
a cheap rtr set to get more people interested...
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