Team Associated Announces RC24 ZOOM Rally RTR Micro-Racer
This is a 1/24-scale micro rally RTR from Team Associated, not Element RC's crawler/trail focus. It's a genuinely new preorder announcement with launch framing, but the show's not-covered list explicitly excludes 1:27/micro-scale miniature vehicles, and this is squarely in that mini-scale novelty category rather than trail/scale crawling. Major-brand kits in other surface categories (rally) can score 40-70, but the micro-scale mismatch and lack of trail relevance push it to the low end.
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Team Associated is taking pre-orders for the RC24 ZOOM Rally, a 1/24-scale ready-to-run micro rally car priced at $109.99 (MSRP $164.99), shipping in August. It features a molded chassis with steel hinge pins, independent suspension, gear differentials, ball bearings, a painted Lexan body, and comes with a 2.4GHz transmitter, 1S LiPo battery, and USB charger. The platform supports hobby-grade upgrades including Reedy microelectronics, and a full range of spare/upgrade parts is available.