Neuer 2wd Buggy X-Factory X-6

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Somebody posted back on page 1 mentioning our new X - 6, and the comment was made that the mid-motor design had been tried back in the '80s and found wanting. Back in the '80s that was true.

They were racing with rock-hard tires back then on soft dusty or sandy tracks. Conditions were far different than the blue-groove tracks we have today where they blow or sweep the dust off. And today's super soft tire compounds, combined with modern foam, have changed things dramatically. Losi's silver, considered hard today, is softer than most '80s tires.

With the motor in back you go through corners riding a pendulum -- sooner or later the heavy end is going to come around. This limits corner speed and leads to a strange style of driving: Dive into the corner on the power as long as you can, slam on the brakes, and "rotate" the car around the apex. No F-1 driver does it that way. If "rotating" were the fast way, they'd all do it.

In bumps, especially washboards and whoops, the rear motor acts like a bucking horse, throwing the rear of the car into the air and making it difficult to control. With a rear-motor car the way through the whoops is simple: slow down and drive through under as much control as you can muster.

The X - 6 has none of these problems. For immediate proof, watch a xx-4 or X - 5 corner and take bumps.

We also have much better steering because of weight distribution. A Losi or AE buggy is about 65 - 35 rear to front. The X - 6 is about 55 - 45. Greg and Paul say it steers like nothing they've ever driven. They also say it's the easiest-to-drive buggy they've ever driven because it's so predictable.

With today's tires and track surfaces, there's no differences in acceleration. We proved that at this year's Cactus and Losi races.

Back in the day, the mid-motor was not going to work. You needed the rear motor to act like a lever and push the tires into the track on acceleration. The mid-motor was ahead of its time then. This is the time.

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