How much of that can be attributed as much to the increase in tire diameter from 2" to 2.2" as a 10% increase in wheelbase? Not to mention the trend in track design these days having 1:10 cars make ridiculously long & high jumps that are way out-of-proportion to what 1:1 offroad buggies do....hence the need for longer wheelbases and bigger wheels & tires. It's all relative, IMHO.alcyon wrote:To me the swb looks better, but one cannot argue with the handling advantage the lwb gives. There is a reason after all why all modern buggies have lwb. I have personally seen how my lwb mid soaks up the rough stuff , i cant imagine the swb would do better .rccars4sal wrote:I like the way the LWB mids look like a real competition buggy. The short mids just dont look quite as serious. I like the way the lwb handles too.
Just playing devil's advocate here, but I wonder how well today's cars would perform on the tracks from 25 - 30 years ago? Maybe the longer wheelbases & bigger tires might suffer on the smaller, slower-speed, less flight-worthy tracks from BITD.
