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FasterLouder wrote:

Dirtdiver wrote:My first car was an RC-10 and when I saw my first JRX-2, I thought it looked cheap. They could run/out run the six gear RC-10 on the track but something about the Losi plastic didn't do anything for me.

After 25 years, I still own my original RC-10 and a JRX-2 sprint car conversion (bought 3-4 years ago). They each have their good and bad points, but the JRX-2 still looks cheap.

Them there are fightin' words!

ill back ya brendan, always keen for some biff

FasterLouder wrote:I was thinking of starting a poll/thread on which automotive manufacturer would be the equivalent RC manufacturer.
Would AE be Ford and Losi GM?

Well, Ford IS more reliable than GM.

5 million miles and 30 years of outside sales talking.. (My dad's old saying)
He got to drive a LOT of cars on someone else's dime.

LOSI is 2.6 miles from my house. (NO Joke) I think I am going to go by and look around this weekend... maybe snap a few photos and see what they are up to.

Since LOSI sold out (like AE) I doubt they have any old stuff there.. I wonder if they even know what GIL LOSI looks like.

Hmmm....

fordtransman wrote:LOSI is 2.6 miles from my house. (NO Joke) I think I am going to go by and look around this weekend... maybe snap a few photos and see what they are up to.

Since LOSI sold out (like AE) I doubt they have any old stuff there.. I wonder if they even know what GIL LOSI looks like.

Hmmm....

I can tell you for sure that their old stock has been "clearanced"

FasterLouder wrote:The JRX2 was the best thing that ever happened to the RC10.
Without Team Losi and the JRX2/JRXT,the RC10/RC10T would have languished on with the same design for years.
Who knows how long it would have taken them to release the B2,without Losi!?!

^^^ This. Losi kicked AE right in the butt.

To me the Losi cars were always slightly more exotic than the plain jane offerings from AE. The Jrx2 was a milestone, it came stock with a cf chassis, 48 pitch gears, wide suspension arms and a bunch of other cool stuff. Then came the molded chassis of the second generation cars, which changed how all competitive r/c cars looked.

That's okay, you don't have to like Losi. There are plenty of us who do.

In my I.E. address bar I typed in www.lositalk.com and www.jrx2talk.com Nothing came up. Weird.

fordtransman wrote:In my I.E. address bar I typed in http://www.lositalk.com and http://www.jrx2talk.com Nothing came up. Weird.

Looks like www.fordtalk.com is available, too!

Coelacanth wrote:

fordtransman wrote:In my I.E. address bar I typed in http://www.lositalk.com and http://www.jrx2talk.com Nothing came up. Weird.

Looks like http://www.fordtalk.com is available, too!

We have a nationwide, internal message board. There are thousands of websites that have people in them..and factory techs. If someone tried to start a Fordtalk site, Ford would sue them. check out this one.

www.thedieselstop.com

I heard Losi made a metal car.... I liked the RC10 because it doesnt break everytime you jump it... a reason my son's first RC was a Slash. (STILL cant break it) The RC10 caught on because dads got sick of buying Tamiiya parts over and over... run it til you break it.. (30 minutes) Losi pioneered going back to composites and made it work. Someday I will get a JrX2.

associated has been around for a lot longer then losi, which in turn affects more people ya can't compete with that i'm sorry to say.

LOSI ROCKS!!!!

Not because of what they offer in recent years but when the JRX2 was released that thing had some SERIOUS street cred here in Australia. Then when the PRO came out even more so.

I can say that I really love the early Losi cars and they really turned up the heat on the competition as has been said here in previous posts.

For me the X2 is HOT!
The PRO is even HOTTER!

Can't beat em!

The rally weapon was never a popular car, I am not suprised you cant get parts for it. As Rick said though, they were based on the street weapon. It was a bizzarre format to release at the time, and it never took off.

Its funny, I am of the same opinion of AE cars, they are nice, but they dont hold the nostalgia value like Losi does for me.

To say that you dont care about Losi is a little harsh, Losi/AE competition has been good for RC as a whole, and will continue to do so...

The word on the street is the only reason AMD exists is so that no one files antitrust suits against Intel.

How is it after three pages, Scr8p has managed to stay out of this?

mrlexan wrote:How is it after three pages, Scr8p has managed to stay out of this?

i don't want to make anyone cry when i explain to them how horribly wrong they are.....

No matter which one you like, neither one would still be here with out the other. I dont think the RC10 would have been the same with out the introduction of Losi to compete with it. and the same for Losi they both pushed each other to be better. and give us all the great cars we love to collect.