This is my first Avant Slot car. I have seen a few at the club, but have never owned one. 

The boxed presentation is good, and the car is fastened to the plinth by 2 screws, which each had a plastic spacer to fit between plinth and chassis. If these 2 spacers had been 1mm thicker, they would have actually prevented the tyres from flat spotting.

Unboxing the car, and dropping it onto a set up block, showed that the chassis was good and flat. I does look a little skewed in the pic below, but that was due to the front left wheel height, being incorrectly set. This was easy to remedy with the grub screw adjustment, which we will get to later.

I am quite taken by the colour scheme of this car, in particular the matt black finish. All the paint and decals are sound, and i found it an easy subject to photograph. 

I did take loads of photos, but i hope you agree that this model totally justifies this?

I had a quick Google around to see how accurately this car had been reproduced by Avant Slot.

Absolutely fantastic in my opinion! A first class effort, as you can see below.

There are 40-50 grill gaps and apertures on this model, and every one is a clean and crisp cut. There is even little red brake caliper details. All good so far, as we have a highly detailed, excellently finished body.

The only view your competition should see.

Taking a look on the underside, we can see that this is an inline mounted chassis with separate adjustable motor pod. There is a centrally positioned magnet, and the chassis is attached to the body via 2 screws. These 2 screws have no threads for half their length. I believe this allows for a clean body rock.

You can just about see the small flat spots on all 4 tyres.

Whilst handling this model for the first time i got the impression that this car was light, so lets take a look inside and get it onto the scales.

It was whilst separating the car, that i noticed the body is very thin, hence the light weight. I wonder how durable this will prove to be, especially with my lack of driving skill. I can confess that this car has been on it's roof at least 3 times already, with no ill effect so far. I think those 4 little rubber aerials have saved some paint work.

As you will see, the body weighs in at just 17.5g, and the chassis at 62.4g. A car all in, at under 80g with a large boxer type motor, is pretty good i think?

I took a few measurements of the car, and you will find these stats at the foot of the page. 

The guide is long and deep, and the way that the wires are situated, causes the guide to self centre. You can also see the front axle adjustment grub screws below. It was one of these, that needed loosening off to level the stance of the car up. Easily done with a Slot.it type tool.

27 tooth crown with an 11 tooth pinion. Large orange motor and plastic bushings. Small bar magnet and soft motor wires.

What i do find strange, is that the wheels are plastic push fit, and not the grub screw alloy type? There is nothing wrong with them, but the quality of the rest of the car, would lead you to believe that alloys would be standard feature? 

The motor pod is adjustable from the outside by way of 2 screws. You can also see the Slot.it style crown, and plastic axle bearings which look quite flimsy, but the axles are snugly set within them, with no play.

The front of the pod pivots with a plastic pin sat in a plastic cradle and a plastic retention loop is built over, to stop excessive movement. Hard to describe, but shown in the pic below.

The rear tyres were sanded slightly to remove the flat spots. The tyres are of a soft compound and were easy to true. Had it not been for the flat spots, these tyres were pretty much ready to go anyway.

My first laps with this car were at the club. Wooden track with copper tape.

Oh my gosh! This car is quick. 

My first blast down the club straight resulted in a wheels up de-slot at the end. Totally my fault, as i was taken by surprise at just how quick this car accelerates. It is a monster.

As well as being quick, the car was extremely well balanced. Controllable slides through the curves were great fun.

The club track is a sandtex surface, and the tyre of choice here is the soft NSR Ultragrip. If I can get a pair of these on this car without upsetting the balance, then I will have myself a new GT Class competitor, to take over from the NSR Mosler I currently use. 

On my home track (Scaley Sport), the magnet can do it's thing. Well, maybe not. The magnet is weak, and the tyres don't hook up well on the slick sport surface. Wheel spinning along the straights and the back end hanging out around every curve. I am gonna have to get some Ultragrips on this car, soon.

In conclusion, this car is fantastic, i like it a lot. The level of detail and finish of the body work are akin to Slot.it models, and the performance out of the box (on a wood track at least), is almost NSR like. Hopefully with a new set of rubber on the rears, this will become a race winner. It certainly feels like it has the potential.

Thanx for taking the time to read, I hope this has been of some use. I will report back regards the tyre upgrade, at a later date.

Car Stats:

Total Weight = 79.9g. Chassis Weight = 62.4g.  Body weight = 17.5g.

Wheelbase = 93mm. Car length = 144mm. Car Width = 64mm. Car height = 31mm.