pantag
Fairly New Member
Background: I have been researching RCs for a couple months. It's been around 7 years since I sold my old Revo 2.5 (yes!) and now I got the bug again to get into the RC game (I found out the LiPOs can be fun... exploding fun!!). From my research so far, it seems that Arrma is the answer no matter how hard the local salesmen are trying to push Traxxas down my throat. I am torn between the new Talion V3 vs Kraton V2 (current model).
So, as you probably saw on the news, the new Talion V3 is coming out in a few days. It seems that Arrma was focused (maybe too much) on lowering the new Talion and setting it up for speed. Now, they call it a "speed truggy", yet another category..? From the pictures that started flowing, the wheels are higher than the body! This thing will disappear in the distance and be barely visible so low. I also compared the ride height between Talion V2 and V3. According to Arrma's website, V2 has 37mm clearance and the V3 has 45mm. How is this possible!? Is it a typo? Are we talking here about a fundamental change to the Talion series? To me, it would be more appropriate to do such changes for speed on the Typhon buggy, not on a truggy!
So... Is the new 2018 Talion V3 really a truggy anymore, with all the on-road modifications? For someone who wants to bash and does not race nor wants to put it on track and don't care for speed, does the new Talion makes sense? Is Kraton the anwer? (ideally V3!)
So, as you probably saw on the news, the new Talion V3 is coming out in a few days. It seems that Arrma was focused (maybe too much) on lowering the new Talion and setting it up for speed. Now, they call it a "speed truggy", yet another category..? From the pictures that started flowing, the wheels are higher than the body! This thing will disappear in the distance and be barely visible so low. I also compared the ride height between Talion V2 and V3. According to Arrma's website, V2 has 37mm clearance and the V3 has 45mm. How is this possible!? Is it a typo? Are we talking here about a fundamental change to the Talion series? To me, it would be more appropriate to do such changes for speed on the Typhon buggy, not on a truggy!
So... Is the new 2018 Talion V3 really a truggy anymore, with all the on-road modifications? For someone who wants to bash and does not race nor wants to put it on track and don't care for speed, does the new Talion makes sense? Is Kraton the anwer? (ideally V3!)