June 21, 2010

What would be the best petrol RC off-road car for me to get?

I have had an electric car for a few years now, and i am well used to controlling it using the standard trigger and wheel. Now i want to get a petrol off-road RC car instead. I am looking at spending £100 to £130, plus extra expenses for the likes of fuel and glow starters. Any suggestions would be appreciated :). Thanx.

You won't get anything new for £130 that you want. (The nitrotek stuff is cheap because it is poorly made.)
Save another bit of money and try grab an hpi bullet. Which is a great truck. Failing that, local independant hobby stores will stock second hand good brands. For instance, i got a thunder tiger tomahawk second hand, £80. No problems with it thus far.
All 'petrol' (you mean nitro here, petrol is entirely different. They are 23-26 CC engines that power the 1/5ths, about a grand to buy one.) take alot of looking after. You have to know enough about what your doing to keep it running well. The upside is there is loads of info on the web, and even step by step movies on you tube.

A couple of good trucks to check out; (though im sure others will disagree)
Traxxas rustler
Thunder tiger tomahawk (£160 new, not bad at all)
Hyper 7.
Hpi bullet/firestorm

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June 21, 2010

Chris @ 5:46 pm

You won't get anything new for £130 that you want. (The nitrotek stuff is cheap because it is poorly made.)
Save another bit of money and try grab an hpi bullet. Which is a great truck. Failing that, local independant hobby stores will stock second hand good brands. For instance, i got a thunder tiger tomahawk second hand, £80. No problems with it thus far.
All 'petrol' (you mean nitro here, petrol is entirely different. They are 23-26 CC engines that power the 1/5ths, about a grand to buy one.) take alot of looking after. You have to know enough about what your doing to keep it running well. The upside is there is loads of info on the web, and even step by step movies on you tube.

A couple of good trucks to check out; (though im sure others will disagree)
Traxxas rustler
Thunder tiger tomahawk (£160 new, not bad at all)
Hyper 7.
Hpi bullet/firestorm
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