Mardave Cobra

[fury_dice(2)]

Does anyone have an opinion on the re-issued (?) Mardave Cobra Sport and TQ. They seem great value for money on the face of it - what's the catch? Cheers. David

[BiggusDitchus]

They are great cars for the price, a great entry level car for racing. They have possibilities and dont really think there is a catch.

[Tamiya01478]

Biggus is quite right. The Meteor, which the cobra car comes from, was also cheap, and competed with the Tamiya 4wd's of the day for a fraction of the price!

[wldnas]

The Mardave Cobra is typical of the cars that Mardave produced as a whole, very cheap, and minimalist in design, yet they do the job for which they were made very well and quite competativly.

The Cobra is quite the most basic competition buggy you will ever see, it really has been stripped back to the absolote minimum and there isn't a lot to it, but it has all the basic ingredients that make up a 2WD competition buggy.

I have a Meteor myself but would very much like to own the other two Mardave 1:10th Buggies they made (the Apache and Cobra) however they did once make a prototype 4WD, but unfortunatly it did not go into production as they coulden't find a way to make it cheap enough which is a real shame as I would have really like to have seen a 4WD Mardave

as for "Is There a Catch?" as far as I'm aware? Mardave don't make the Cobra anymore, the car has been out of production for about 18-24 months now so any new kits you might see in the shops are just old unsold stock, if Mardave have re-issued the Cobra in recent months then it's news to me??? [:0]

In fact as a company I'm not even sure that Mardave are still trading [8)] if so then it's only the V12's that have kept them ticking over, as a result Cobra spares will be very hard/nagh impossible to find now, that and if you decided to race a Cobra competativly at club level today you would probably get laughed off the circuit, even though a suitably hopped up Cobra would probaly kick the *** of any RC10 or Losi

but if you do happen to know of a shop that is still selling these old stock kits off the shelf, please let me know where as i would like to buy one for prosterity reasons wldnas@hotmail.com

UPDATE: Mr Biggus has just informed me that the Cobra has in fact been re-issued [:0] I eat my own words perhaps Mardave isn't as doomed as I thought []

[BiggusDitchus]

Mardave have just re introduced the Cobra.. it is available in shops now along with a good spares back up.

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The only real faults I suppose is it can be a little difficult to build but not too bad, and the other isnt really a fault but if you want to use anything more than kit motor then you need to ballrace it, but you can say the same about Tamiya models too.

[kevinthegerbil]

Taken Off the Mardave Website

10 SCALE OFF ROAD RACERS

COBRA SPORT AND T.Q KITS

Highly successful 2WD 1/10 scale Electric off road racer.TQ Kit includes 14 ball races, unbreakable HS 30 chassis, alloy bodied oil filled dampers, slipper clutch unit etc. etc.SPORT KITS Includes speed controller, 540 Motor, and 2 ball races and is very easily upgraded to TQ specification.

COBRA SPORT £79.95

6 Cell Battery Pack £15.95

12 volt fast charger £6.95

DEAL PRICE £99.95

COBRA T.Q. Now £99.95

[fury_dice(2)]

Thanks to all on the responses to this - great writeup as usual wldnas [8D]. I did see the stuff on the Mardave website, and have noticed that at least one dealer (can't remember who) is doing the 'TQ' version at less than list (90-ish I think). Must admit I'm getting tempted...

Cheers. David

[Mooplea]

mardave are still going along, but ive not heard anything about the cobra being reissued ?? it makes no mention on the website (but that isnt exactly surprising) where did you hear this ? i'll beleive it when i see it i guess!.. would be good for a laugh i guess at club meetings...

[fury_dice(2)]

quote:Originally posted by Mooplea

mardave are still going along, but ive not heard anything about the cobra being reissued ?? it makes no mention on the website (but that isnt exactly surprising) where did you hear this ? i'll beleive it when i see it i guess!.. would be good for a laugh i guess at club meetings...

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Here it is (go to the bottom of the page)

http://www.mardaveracing.com/kit.htm

[BiggusDitchus]

Mooplea I not only heard this I have seen and looked thru the kits. Rich