Tamiya Question

[backyardbasher]

I'm looking through the Tamiya R/C guidebook and something puzzles me. Under each chassis, I see a bunch of cars that you can purchase for that particular chassis. For example, a TL01 chassis you can get a Celica, Calsonic Skyline, Subaru Impreza, Ford Focus, Ford Mustang. Now does the TL01 Subaru Impreza come with different shocks than a TL01 Mustang because it's a rally car? Or is everything inside the kit EXACTLY the same for both except the bodies?
Same goes for the TA03F, TGX-Mk1, and TG10-Mk1. When I look at the pictures, it seems like the rally car bodies have more ground clearance than the touring cars. Did they just raise the bodies on those rally cars to raise the ground clearance? Or did these rally cars actually come with different shocks? There's even pictures of the rally cars being driven on dirt and gravel. If they did just raise the car bodies, does that mean I could just raise the car bodies on any touring cars (Tamiya, HPI, Associated, Kyosho, etc...) and run it in the gravel as well? Or should I only run on gravel with a "true" rally car chassis like the TB01?

[Throtl Hapie]

They are the same except the body, rims and sometimes the tires.

[backyardbasher]

Let me get this straight. Tamiya doesn't really make "true" rally cars then. Since all their shocks are the same length among other things. That's misleading. Unless I'm a sucker, I thought because they showed the Subaru in dirt that perhaps the kit would at least come with rally style shocks or something. Newbie mistake.

[Djn]

The subaru TG-10 mk.1 is kinda a rally
it has a plastic 'bowl' that you screw onto the bottom and it protects everything inside the car so no stones get in. The drivetrain is COMPLETLY closed and shaft driven so nothon will ever get into your gears. it also has rally tires. so the only thing you have to do to make it a real rally car is to find some other shocks to rais the ride height a bit. but it works great on gravel and hard dirt the way it is now.

DJN