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Very nice job! You can tell that a lot of thought went into it. Great models for inspiration, too! That is some NPU for the grille! I'm not sure how I feel about the white wheels, though. It seems to give it more of a retro look that doesn't match the modern Jeep body that well. I would say that something feels a little off about the way the hardtop looks--maybe full studs are too large for proper proportioning? It's not a big deal, though, since you can always take them off! Great job!

Glad to see some progress on this ambitious model!

It does look nice and fluid; good job! The bigger wheels do give it some nice aggressive looks

This looks like a very high quality MOC, with lots of attention to detail, and a great aggressive look! Nice job!

Cool to see that progress! It looked like you had a lot of fun designing and playing with these!

One other thing to check would be if you can manually turn that whole rear drivetrain (Spinning the wheels manually, or something with less gear reduction, possibly), just to make sure nothing is mechanically blocked

Yeah, you can definitely go deep with Mindstorms! The stock programming interface should be good if you prefer block-based programming, while the ev3dev/Pybricks (I think they're the same thing) is better for text-based programming (Python). One other thing you could look at is the multitude of books on the topic--here's a quick search I did with lots of options available! https://www.amazon.com/s?k=minstorms+ev3+idea+book&crid=8L84OPXY76PD&sprefix=minstorms+ev3+idea+book%2Caps%2C165&ref=nb_sb_noss I definitely wouldn't worry about it being obsolete or unsupported--I set my EV3 up this year, and it seems to be the strongest all-around Mindstorms generation of them all!

That's some pretty hardcore color swapping!

Impressive! Also, that's a clever technique to film two things at once using the mirror!

I think my lateral stability wouldn't be very competitive! The hope is to run an event similar to this one we did last summer again:

Ooh, another contest! It might be hard to find time to enter, since I'm also trying to finish a Trial Truck for the summer, and have travel plans for several weeks, but I'll give it a go! (Well, unless the topic is shockingly inconvenient for me!)

That is cool to have a column shifter!

Wow, a 1:6 car! After having built one 1:7 car, I can appreciate how enormous that'll be!

Oh, I see what you're doing there--going for the absolute longest possible travel setup for the suspension links. That could make for a nice responsive suspension, but as mentioned in your other topic, it's not ideal to have your CV/Universal joint pivots away from the A-arm pivots like that

Yeah, that's how I did it! No gear reduction to be had that way, but it's good and solid, and we have planetary hubs to help out further downstream

Yeah, that's essentially how I built the frames for the locking differentials on my backhoe model. It should work well! I can't say I'd mind it if they made a new 7x7 frame for that kind of thing, though

The Yamaha driving rings fit quite nicely with HD diffs in a 5-wide space, so it's probably possible to do it much more compactly now than it was before! (Singe with 3L driving rings the skinniest odd-width spacing possible was 7L)

That's pretty funny!

Yep, I expect that's what they'll be basing it on! Though the V8 is still an option, so Lego could go either way, and given that the V8 is more prestigious and likely more compact to implement, I'd guess they'd go that way.

Impressive! I managed to shred some (MouldKing?) ones a while back, but that was with a non-Lego motor

I think the idea is that you can then mount the steering link joint inline with the suspension pivot, and simultaneously mount it inboard of the steering pivot. You want to have the link pivot inside of the steering pivot to get the Ackermann geometry, and you want it to be inline with the suspension joint to avoid bump steer, so by separating the steering and suspension pivots in this way, you can have the best of both worlds

Cool project!

That's a pretty fun model! The tubular bodywork is pretty cool-looking too

Wow, that's cool that you can make it available that way!

Yeah, that sounds worthwhile!