You are reading a single comment by @Howard and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
I haven’t driven one, but the front end looks to be very stiff/solid/no slop and very adjustable into something which should handle well enough?
If you wanted to design something that was purposefully terrible for off road racing of the time, you'd struggle to do 'better' than the Avante. It's too heavy, its wheelbase too short, the suspension geo is all wrong - zero caster? sure! - and can't be adjusted right, there's terrible bump steer, there's not enough travel, and the damping and progressiveness of the shocks is all wrong... honestly, it boggles the mind, but then it was 1988 or something.
It's basically the RC equivalent of the 2021-22 Mercedes F1 car
Howard
Ben689908
Brun
The Avante steering/handling comments intrigue me.
I haven’t driven one, but the front end looks to be very stiff/solid/no slop and very adjustable into something which should handle well enough?