Tamiya Super Astute 2018

Might be interested if the price is right.

 

Could be a substitute for my Astute look-a-like.

 

 

Dang.

 

https://www.modelsport.co.uk/tamiya-super-astute-2018-/rc-car-products/434128

 

Think I'll stick with the look-a-like.

in the early 90s i got a fully hopped up racing version with carbon fiber parts for about £50  and it did well at our club.

Tamiya Astute, Just about as bad as it ever got for Tamiya, Not sure it ever got to a drawing board, Let alone how it ever got off one. 

On 01/09/2018 at 23:27, babylon said:

Tamiya Astute, Just about as bad as it ever got for Tamiya, Not sure it ever got to a drawing board, Let alone how it ever got off one. 

I take it you forgot about the madcap that is was based off.  that had serious issues  front bulk head kept breaking and rear diff was a total disaster.

The Madcap was better than the Astute, Bulkheads broke on the Astute too, Jamie Booth ran one all them years ago and had to have a bracket made to support it as Tamiya never addressed it, And he was there driver.

You had to use the the rear Madcap hub carriers and arms on the Astute cos of the silly system it had were everything that moved could be ball raced, (even the tie rods)Problem was that the Astute come with all brass bushes other than about 3 in the gearbox so the whole car was sloppy, Ball races were expensive back then and it was almost the same price as the car to ball race it.

 Had a fibreglass chassis that was about 3mm and no support, lift the front up and drop it and the chassis would just bend and the shocks wouldn't move, The arms you could twist 90 degrees they were so flexible,Wheels were the same, You could stand on them and they would just flex flat and return, May sound good  but it wasn't, And the drive shafts and cups were made of some right cheap alloy and lasted about 5 minutes(literally)  before being fit for bin, And they still couldn't bring them selves to put proper shocks on it. 

 It was a really bad car, Really bad, Worse than the Madcap, From any other company it would have been lambasted, It looked good, Which is why I saved up to buy one, But one of the worst I ever had, Possible the worst when you take in how much it cost

 

2 hours ago, babylon said:

The Madcap was better than the Astute, Bulkheads broke on the Astute too, Jamie Booth ran one all them years ago and had to have a bracket made to support it as Tamiya never addressed it, And he was there driver.

You had to use the the rear Madcap hub carriers and arms on the Astute cos of the silly system it had were everything that moved could be ball raced, (even the tie rods)Problem was that the Astute come with all brass bushes other than about 3 in the gearbox so the whole car was sloppy, Ball races were expensive back then and it was almost the same price as the car to ball race it.

 Had a fibreglass chassis that was about 3mm and no support, lift the front up and drop it and the chassis would just bend and the shocks wouldn't move, The arms you could twist 90 degrees they were so flexible,Wheels were the same, You could stand on them and they would just flex flat and return, May sound good  but it wasn't, And the drive shafts and cups were made of some right cheap alloy and lasted about 5 minutes(literally)  before being fit for bin, And they still couldn't bring them selves to put proper shocks on it. 

 It was a really bad car, Really bad, Worse than the Madcap, From any other company it would have been lambasted, It looked good, Which is why I saved up to buy one, But one of the worst I ever had, Possible the worst when you take in how much it cost

 

 

If it had been Traxxas I’m sure there would be a 700 page thread, slagging them off 

This has made my day, im serious! :D:D:D:D:D:D

 

When I was about 12 I got one of these for my birthday and loved it, I drove it a lot, wore bits out and then got frustrated with the lack of parts. Trying to get beaties to order stuff in was just painful, eventually I sold it to a friend and always missed it. Then about 5 years ago I snagged a cheap one off ebay, restored it but then had to sell it when the prices started to go up on ebay.

 

Now to be able to buy one and build it from new again will be awesome!

 

Found the pics of the one I rebuilt

 

 

 

 

Edited September 6, 2018 by Candyman

I'm a bit late with this, But your notice that with the Super Astute, All Tamiya did was to do everything taht everyone else had to do to get it working right, Take the bad bits off and put the not so bad bits on off the Madcap, If that makes sense, Still never addressed the chassis, shocks or bulkhead, Or arms.