We are happy to share with you some info about Our brand new RS5 XT Touring Car. The car shown on the pictures was used by Nicola Marrone during the Modeltek Trophy at Fiorano Italy, and with this car he won the race starting from Pole Position.

As You can see the concept of the car differs much from any other at the past build RS5 touring cars and it is more close to the concepts that is most common nowadays at the class. The idea to make an “open-design” car is since 2 years in our head, and now we reach the point when we have it in our hand and we can test it. We saw at smaller scale RC classes, that the chassis flex coming more and more to the way of development, to increase grip and constancy of the car. For that reason we liked to make a car that has a lot of flex adjustment possibility, but has similar suspension geometry like our Monocoque models. The result of this project is our new XT Touring car.

Key Features:

- 7mm Carbon Composite High TG main chassis:

  We think the carbon is the best material for main chassis, because it tolerates more the

  small hits (it not goes bend) then the aluminum, and the flex characteristic is more equal

  from left to right, and also keep his “flex hardness” for longer times, so it does not force you

  to change the main chassis so often like an aluminum chassis. That is the reasons why 1/10

  electric cars use also carbon chassis instead of aluminum! The main chassis has cutouts

  for different balance weight positions.

- 100% symmetrical chassis and fixing point design:

  All cutouts of the chassis is left to right symmetrical, and the fixing screws of the engines 

  and all other components also.

- 9mm Carbon Composite main chassis stiffeners with adjustable flex windows.

  (2 pcs at rear / 1 pcs at front)

- All-in-one RC unit:

  The AIO RC unit includes the receiver box and all servos. The carbon RC tray is also used as

  stiffener for the front end and has also 1 pcs flex window.

- The Brake master cylinder is the holder of the RC unit. With this method the brake force or

  brake balance does not change during chassis flexing, because they (RC unit and master

  cylinder) are connected together.