Oh boy oh boy oh boy! I am so glad to see this finally hit the airwaves. Super excited to see/hear all your insights on this new car. My wife got me one of these for Father's Day, and I've been anxiously awaiting for you to get to talking about it. They got a remarkable number of details spot on with the original 1970 Scout 800A while at the same time getting a couple details surprisingly WRONG at the same time (I'm spoiled, I can take it out and compare directly with my real '70 800A, insert bragging rights here). I will eventually be making some slight modifications to the stock interior to make it more accurately match the real thing, but it's a great base from which to start, the best one that's been done so far by anyone. One of the things I really like about this one is that they included the V badge below the nameplate on each front fender. That's the factory V8 badge, which not a lot of 800As came with (mine is a factory V8 so I have it), and being that authentically close to the real thing tickled me pink, they really didn't have to do that. It also has a well done version of the lowback bucket seats, which was the most common option (mine has the highback buckets which I intend to make 3D models of for our Gen9), and in the sticker pack they give you two fuel cap stickers, so you can replicate the dual fuel tank option of the original (mine has that, too). There's so much to like about this new body. And that new body mounting system is very clever. The only real drawback to it is that it doesn't allow you the option to install a real tailgate if you want to, and I really wanted to. It may make it difficult to mount a scale OEM-style tire carrier, too. We'll see about that when I get to the stage where I'm ready to design one. I've already designed and printed up multi-point articulated side mirrors because (shocker, I know) I broke the driver side one on the first drive. The ones I made use the stock mounting holes and are very similar in appearance to the OEM mirrors, I think they turned out pretty well. And, being articulated, they just sort of swivel instead of breaking off (very similarly to how the Gen8 mirrors do) when I invariably do something stupid. Again. Happy to share if anyone wants the files. I also got the Redcat Gen9 light kit for it. And that was... well, if I had to guess, I'd say that whoever designed that body never talked to and maybe never even met whoever designed that light kit, because the amount of disassembly required to get to where I could put the dash lights in is just ridiculous. As a minor bonus, it made putting in the floor mat on the driver side and both interior door panels super easy while it was all taken to bits. Anyone looking for tips on how to open that body up, let me know. It was quite the adventure in forensic surgery. But it turned out nicely and the light kit adds a very pleasing nighttime driving experience. And as for the tires... I think the new M16 tires are a huge improvement over the Gen8 tires, I do not dislike these new ones nearly as much as the previous ones... but... I didn't even have it three days before the RC4WD Goodyear Wrangler Duratracs arrived and I put those on it. I really like those tires. I am not an Interco/SuperSwamper fan. In real life or in RC. So, I can't really speak to whether they're any good or not, I didn't drive on them enough to really tell. They look and feel pretty good, though. I'm betting they perform pretty well on the six problems. All in all, this is a really good little model. I'm very impressed with both the detail and the driving experience, and I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who found it so. I've read your article on the RCTNT website, which I thought was very well done, just like this video (no surprised there, eh? you do great work!), it was right on target as usual. Can't wait to see the next part of the review. Thanks for all of this, we really appreciate what you do here.

I was just watching this video and my daughter was watching too. She said “aww he looks so nice and so genuine”. She then subscribed to your channel lol.

Thank you Craig. You are my favorite RC guy on youtube.

Great stuff as always. I've been a fan of International vehicles for a while and the Gen9 is intriguing. It looks good and is pretty darn close to being accurate to the 1:1. I'm looking forward to the course run and seeing how it does. See you next time!

Awesome detailed info as always! Looking forward to how it performs against the 6 problems 👌👌👌

I love a thrilling mini-series!

Great job mate!

A good manual is better than a bad manual especially when he's doing your gardening! (a mexican gardener joke probably won't fly in aus like it does in North America lol)

AWESOMENESS!!! 😎

I'm glad you finally got one! Great review‼️👍👍🦾🦾

What you said at 5:30 👍

I really like your review man.

I got one when they first came out, I hope that they have beefed up where the tie rod end bolts on my broke on the first big bump ,treal makes a inner portal box that fixes that weak spot

going to have to go back and see your reviews, I've been tempted to buy the gen7 in the past, good looking body and features.....maybe performance wasn't up to snuff?

I had completely forgotten about the Gen 9! It´s like after release nobody is making any comparison or mentioning it again... The body is as square a shape as they come, but I'm such a sucker for that tone of blue. About the preload, if you´re getting the body sitting on the left rear corner when you throttle it, I think you said you wanted to loosen the rear right preload, but I would´ve stiffened pre-load on the RL corner instead, so it has more support when weight is shifted to that corner when accelerating. Then again, for a rock crawler you really don´t usually need to perform high throttle demands in which an uneven pre-load is necessarily going to help, or do you think otherwise?

Franchement il est top 🔝 top

Nooooo😢 I want to see the review now... I cannot wait 😢

Surprised they didn't fix the torque twist issue, one of the big advantages of portals is no torque twist but they didn't put enough gear reduction in their portals, looking forward to seeing how it does on the rocks, I would think with the heavier body it would be more top heavy than the gen8?

Thank you for the video! How is the Gen 9 compared to the Marksman?

What size batteries do you recommend running on the Gen9? Thanks.

What 2S battery would you recommend to be able to power the steering servo?

I wish i would have seen this video before i bought the Gen 8 PURPLE . now I am bummed that I did. and I have not even taken it out of the box yet. what should i do sell or keep it. the hobby store wont take it back.

Do you ever sell your trucks?

5:00 minus 100 points for running WITH NO DRIVER...what are you, new? lol Come on man, get on it! Raid your kid's toy box and find SOMEONE to drive the thing! Driving an RC car with a visible interior is like going to dinner with your wife with no pants on hahahah I didn't see "tesla" on the side of it? (alluding to the self driving feature)

Redcrap...wont touch it