1) XRay, while trying to keep the price down, will not do anything that doesn't make sense on the track, I don't know how much of their history you know, but their lineage shows this. The plastic suspension blocks may actually be better, who knows? You do get a bigger surface area in which they ride on, they are A LOT beefier than their aluminum counterparts, you don't have to unscrew the whole mount to change an arm out, and I have personally seen bent aluminum pieces on the buggy, but never a broken plastic suspension holder.
2) This is the pro truggy. They only do the machined towers that are black with silver edging on the race/pro versions.
3) The truck was designed and tested around the 125cc tank because they might have changed the design several times in prototype stages that may have called for a change in tank design, so why re mold a tank with every change in prototypes, when you could make the truck work with a 125cc tank, then design a new tank around the finished truck.
3.5) (This one, provides answers to both, 3 and 4.) Over at XRay, they are SLAMMED!!! They are trying to produce 3 different cars that will hit the WORLD market in a month's time. This is an amazing feat when you think about the time, effort and materials that go into producing a single run of a kit! They are updating one kit and making two brand new ones. This entails new instruction manuals (A HUGE DEAL, if you've never made one, you wouldn't know, haha), production and bagging of parts and packaging these parts in boxes, two of which are brand new boxes. All of these processes and supplies from their suppliers have to align just right for everything to work out as well as it has!!!
4) They are very close to shipping out all of the corrected EC's which should be followed by the NT1's, then the truggies next month. I am very impressed by their work and how well everything has gone to this point, yes there were errors, which every company is going to make (some may not do anything about it) but at least XRay is fixing their mistakes and getting the cars out to us in a expedient manner... Name one other company that will produce a kit and everything that goes with it (parts production, literature, boxes and parts packaging) in house and of the level of quality to match XRay? I'll give you the answer, no other company does this, and cares so much about their results on the track and how their kit goes together as XRay does, which is why I love being a part of their operation and have run their cars for the past 5 years and will continue to do so.
I hope this helps answer your questions. And please think about them and their efforts when you consider the 'stink' that has been raised about the composite suspension blocks and eclips. Just remember, there is no company like XRay in the world. No other company will design and respond to the racing community as XRay will, and this can be shown in their kits and race results. If they didn't think that it is better for a truggy to use the composite suspension holders and eclips they wouldn't have put them in there.
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Maybe it's the curse of all Xray drivers. We want race-proven competitive products they should also look sweet. Still I think it's more important that the focus is put on the go, not the show.
