oOple has published a fairly extensive review of the XRAY 808 to their website. I'm going to handle this review similar to the Pirate RC 808 review. I'll post the highlights below, but you should read the full article if you want the details. Here we go.
"The shock towers on the 808 follow a recent trend toward carbon fibre in this area - a vast weight saving from the ultra thick alloy items usually seen on 8th scale buggies. Strong enough? well the carbon used is 3.5mm thick on the rear and a massive 4mm up front - and looks very high quality to boot. If you break one of these then you probably deserved it."
"The 808 features all-new 'big bore' alloy shock absorbers, and they're huge! The large size is designed to acheive better and more consistent damping performance, especially over the longer finals - due to the larger volume of oil."
"The bodyshell included with the 808 is arguably one of the nicest looking 8th buggy shells around - the sweeping lines extend from the front wings right the way back to the rear of the shell, where a little 'kick' gives some minute aerodynamic effect no doubt. I'm no fan of regular run-of-the-mill 8th body shells - I'd even go as far as to say most are fat and as ugly as sin - but this is much better than that, dare I say it's almost 'sexy'."
"The 808 has to be one of, if not THE best kit I've ever built. In terms of quality and ease of build the 808 is a testament to the obsession with quality Xray have shown since bursting onto the scene. You'll be hard pressed to find fault with the build or quality of components - the manual is first class and the supplied 'Hudy off road set-up book' is a nice little inclusion, useful to all levels of racer. There's not too much left to say about the build - it almost falls together!"
"Xray has always been renowned for having one of the most adjustable cars available..Sometimes a lttle too adjustable and it was sometimes far too easy for the average racer to get lost in all this. Xray have chosen to narrow down some of the options to make this more user friendly.
This does not mean that the car is 'dumbed' down though, Xray have worked hard on the settings and found a good setting on the options that you may normally get lost on (lower front kickup,antisquat and toe in) and have them now set as standard taking the hard work out of getting a good setup. Naturally however option parts are being released for those that like to tinker with these settings."
"Setup wise the car doesnt need to be 100% to work ok.. Even if your off a little on the setup it still drives ok and lets you get away with a little more, its safer to drive and that means more consistency for the driver, this leads to more speed and the confidence soon builds up,even after only 2 races it felt like I had been driving the car a lot longer as it did exactly what i asked it do very easily..its almost like cheating!"
"compared to the old xb8 the 808 is more nimble, it accelerates faster, turns faster and corners like its on rails, the back end does not break loose like on the xb8 which means you can drive it harder and be more in control..Ah and did I mention it jumps like a kangaroo!!"
"The car is tough as old boots is all I can say,we have done some extensive 'crash testing' trying to break something, I gave up first!
We had some initial doubts about the front carbon shock tower but it hasnt broke, we have landed upside down on astroturf many times and bounced across the ground and still no breakages or anything came undone, its easily as strong as anything out there with build quality second to none."
"For the club racer the car should enable them to drive more consistently as the car is hugely forgiving, with consistency comes speed, this can only help the average racer.. I keep getting asked if I've bought some new thumbs from somewhere - the car is that good. so to sum up..go buy one now,you wont regret it!!"
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