Tamiya Subaru Impreza WRC 2008 (DF-03Ra)

[Paul Onorato]

FROM TAMIYA (http://www.tamiyausa.com/):

1/10 Subaru Impreza WRC 2008 (DF-03Ra) (58430)

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At the 7th Round of the 2008 World Rally Championship “the Acropolis Rally of Greece”,
the world has seen the Subaru WRC team unleash their new exciting 2008 Impreza. With
team driver Petter Solberg at the helm, the Impreza went on to win 2nd place on debut.
The Impreza has also gone on to win a 3rd place podium finish at the Round 9 “Neste Oil
Rally Finland”.

About the model
-Suspension system has plenty of suspension stroke allowing dynamic driving on both onroad
and off-road surfaces. Rally tires included.
-Shaft driven 4WD chassis with longitudinally mounted motor.
-Features the proven DF-03 drive train with front and rear ball differentials and full ball
bearings.
-CVA Damper Super Mini for front and rear suspensions.
-2 types of rear suspension arms allow wheelbase adjustment, enabling fitting of short
wheelbase (251mm) bodies as well.
-Upper arms feature threaded shafts enabling camber angle adjustments.
-Electronic speed controller (TEU-101BK) included (for export version).
-Type 540 motor included.
-Choice of 3-gear ratios: 8.22:1, 7.90:1, 7.45:1, 7.16:1
-Includes two spur gears (78T, 75T) and two pinion gears (29T, 32T)
Can be used with a variety of Option Parts, including:
-53571 TRF Damper Set (Fluorine Coated)
-53953 DF-03 Front One-Way Set
-53949 DF-03 Lightweight Battery Stopper Pin
-53931 DF-03 Center One-Way Set
-53941 DF-03 Alu. Turnbuckle Steering Rod
-53792 Assembly Universal Shaft
-53924 DF-03 Heat Sink Bar Set
-53948 DF-03 Alu. One-Piece Propeller Cup Joint
-53925 DF-03 Slipper Clutch Set (Includes a 85T spur gear that can not be used.)

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The Subaru Impreza WRC 2008 is also available as an RTR in Tamiya's XB version that uses the TT-01 Type E chassis. Item # 57786
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[SS Pede]

Very cool car. What's this about three gear ratios though? That's not very much flexibility. Do the DF-03 buggies have limited gearing like this?

The TT-01 version is interesting too. Interesting compromises here. One brings some advantages of an off-road chassis, the other of a touring car.

[ronestar]

Sweet looking ride, I love rally cars! :)

Wouldn't worry too much about "3 gear ratios" Obviously it's just listing the ratios available out of the box. It actually even lists 4 ratios in the text above.

Comes with two pinions, two spurs hence the 4 ratios. It's just describing what's in the box. ;)

[Old_School_RC_1]

Love the body, no one does bodies like Tamiya.

[T3GT]

Sweet Rally!!!

[JeffEmbracedDC]

this is AWESOME!

I wish they made a Mazdaspeed 3, though!

[Sorcerer001]

I've got the 2007 STI (DF03-RA), it's one of my favorite cars to flog around my neighborhood. It looks great and handles in a very scale manner, it's stability actually surprised me. With the stock tires, it has enough traction to tool around and rip up the sidewalks, flower beds, etc - but they're hard enough that it's easy to flick the car in to a drift. Even with the stock motor and esc, the car is more than fast enough to be entertaining (I'm running two cell LiPos). Pitching the car around, even on hot pavement - when the tires should've been at their stickiest - I've never once rolled the car on it's lid in a slide. It'll happen, it just hasn't occurred yet. I've probably got three solid hours of run time on the car, and other than popping a ball cup and ejecting a dogbone (which have since been replaced with Tamiya's universal shafts), it's been trouble-free.
If you're in to RC, and you're a 1:1 rally fan, you should have at least ONE of these cars in your stable. I'll be buying this body set to "update" my car when the time comes, and I'm sure Tamiya will release other makes eventually.