I think a design for a VW Rat Rod would be kind of neat.
Or a redesign of the Tamiya VW on road racer.
Or anything else VW Beetle related

4x4 monster truck is what I would like to see them make next.

the desert truck wasn't a short course truck. it was... uhhh... idk what it was. pre runner maybe? i could see them learning from there past mistakes and stretching the evader into a proper short course truck. (kind of surprised they haven't done that already)

My best guess for the coming years would be an SCT ( I already made one by stretching an Evader and adding SCT bumpers and a body). And I also think that the EXB will make a comeback. They already have the parts, nothing to be redesigned. The reaon it dies off a while ago IMO is because everything started going brushless. Buggies in general are best used for groomed surfaces such as racing. Well if you put in a brushless system back then the gears would strip and there weren't any factory option gears to upgrade to so the buggy sales died. Now that they have the metal tranny gears you can make EXB's brushless. I currently run a Brushless EXB at my local track in the buggy class and it does really well.

It seems that many folks forget how many RCs DTX used to produce a few years back. You had the:

1/8 4wd nitro Thunder Quake, Warhead, Warhead EVO, and RT-X 27 Monster Trucks

1/8 4wd nitro Raze buggy and truggy

1/5 2wd gas Firehammer monster truck and buggy

1/10 2wd nitro Evader buggy and truck

1/10 2wd electric Evader truck and buggy, and Baja Bug + DT versions

1/14 electric Cliff Climber Crawler

1/18 electric Vendetta buggy, st + sc trucks

1/18 electric Mini Quake MT

1/8 DXR8 nitro buggy

1/8 DXR8-e electric buggy

I'm sure I missed a few, but many of these are obviously still being offered, so it's hard to believe they'll fold up and time soon.

I forgot the 2 motorcycles....

.................and the Nissan GT-R..............and I'm sure a bunch more..............

The R/C industry is VERY fickle and very Flavor of the monthish, If a company does not have a Totally new vehicle every year they will warm over the one that they have that sells the Best, Most companies are on their 2nd or 3rd and sometimes 4th generation of Short Course truck.

Most of the shops by me have a ready supply of Duratrax stuff you just have to ask for it or know where to look. When I asked one shop owner about them, he said "oh, we nomally stock up with those around Christmas" Why? they can sell Losi's and Traxxas all year long, but @ Christmas they don't have time to do "the sell" and they need to hit a price point. Duratrax allows them to do that with a proven reliable product.

Problem with having a good entry level brand is, It's considered an entry level brand, so if people get serious they will move up to one of the big boys and also the aftermarket manufacturers are not as likely to invest allot of effort into parts for'em and aftermarket hop'ups are a big selling point.

The Bottom line is that the parent of Duratrax can continue to milk somewhat older designs for many years to come with little to no Capital expendature, where-as to take Duratrax to the level that they could stand with Losi, Traxxas or Associated would require a major injection of $$$'s ADn they might be taking sales away for one of their other lines.

The way I look at Duratrax and especially the Evader series is they are kind of sleepers; yeah, they may sell a ton of them @ Christmas, but people who REALLY know their R/C's know how good they are and it's kind of an inside secret.

SHHHH! Don't tell!!!!

they have mader firehammers which were 1/5 and ones on ebay its an auction for the biggest bid is 15$ and its in great shape.but the reserve isnt met and i have a feeling its 300$