Rere Team car spotted at SEMA

[GoMachV]

This is all I got

[mikea96]

Looks like it has a gold chassis though

[GoMachV]

Wouldn't surprise me if it was a mix breed, I guess I should have said CE not team as it's probably closer to that

[XLR8]

But wait, are those hard coated shocks?

[carloco8]

So that would make it like a hopped up 6016 rc10 kit? Stealth, no stealth, we will have to wait and see. Kinda cool, Its basically what everyone was adding to their gold pans in the very late 80's for racing (long arm, teflon hard coated shocks) and never available in kit form prior to the team car. Was there ever a 6016 CE bearing kit?

[MarkyDents]

Wow the front wheels look big and really bright…

Dats koool

[XLR8]

All but confirmed; SEMA attendee says Team Car coming in a few months.
Universals and lazer etched gold anno chassis.

https://www.tamiyaclub.com/forum/index.php?/topic/107488-rc10-team-car/

[RC10th]

Why a gold chassis ? It's half CE half Team Car.. One of each would be much better than one mixed.

[Saito]

I'll be honest, I don't get it. We get a 10T with the wrong shocks (unless it was supposed to be an RC10ST) and now a Team car with the wrong tub.

I hear rumors on a podcast that colored tubs were making a comeback. Seeing the news of the green variant, I figured they might base a whole buggy around a green florescent tub available BITD. Instead we got a John Deere. I found the clear version equally strange.

I know people are happy to get anything from Associated at this point and they certainly have been putting out a lot of models this year. I can't voice my questions at the other forum I frequent without much hand-wringing from a few folks that think questioning anything Associated does will result in them becoming upset and pulling the plug on the whole re-release program (on a forum not devoted to AE or the RC10, wow I never knew my words had such power, lol, yeah, right).

[Frankentruck]

Couldn't they 'team car' any of the models by adding the better shocks? Maybe this is a CE team car?

[mikea96]

I really like how it looks with gold chassis and the tq21 rear tires look good as well.

[Dangeruss]

Top secret spy shot from inside an Associated re-release meeting:

[RogueIV]

Black is boring. What's good about this is the fact that it's a Stealth Transmission, long arm, updated shock variant. These will be great runners and different from the original Team car so it stands out on the shelf.

[XLR8]

Couldn't they 'team car' any of the models by adding the better shocks? Maybe this is a CE team car?

The choice of anodize color seems a trivial thing but more units will sell if a re-release is faithful to the original.
While the 40th is a very close recreation of the original, the DS, 10T and this "Team Car" are not.
We know AE possess the resources necessary to accurately recreate those models but they have chosen to mix it up a bit.
It's a stretch but perhaps the changes are an attempt to protect the vintage collector market??
I wish someone from AE would explain their strategy.

[Frankentruck]

I thought the T, T2, B2, and B3 had sport and Team versions that were a change from dogbones to universals and gold shocks to hard anodized (and bushings to not bushings ).