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MattZilla / Axial Wraith U4RC Rig Reader’s Ride

MattZilla / Axial Wraith U4RC Rig Reader’s Ride

Mike Bowman runs this rig at R/C Excitement in New England, where he piloted his machine to a respectable third place finish at his first race and looks to keep improving. His MattZilla creation is far from stock, featuring a Vanquish Products Stage 1 kit for the Axial Wraith, steering links and hex hubs. The […]
RC4WD Gelande II D90 Now Offered as “Limited Edition” RTR

RC4WD Gelande II D90 Now Offered as “Limited Edition” RTR

RC4WD’s Gelande II D90 is very popular with the scale crowd and we’re willing to bet that the limited numbers of this tricked out D90 will sell out pretty quick. It comes to you in RTR form and fully equipped with a bunch of RC4WD upgrades including functional Warn winch, front winch bumper, ARB diff […]

HPI Vorza Built for 100mph Blasts El Mirage

HPI Vorza Built for 100mph Blasts El Mirage

Vintage hot-rod style, modern 1/8 scale buggy tech and a heaping helping of brushless horsepower sounds like a fun speed-run recipe to us, and that’s exactly what you’ll find in this throwback to our “Electric Performance” issue. Sure, a fully enclosed car would have gone faster, but sometimes it’s more fun to do thinks the […]
Marui Big Bear: Looking Back at RC’s First Monster Truck

Marui Big Bear: Looking Back at RC’s First Monster Truck

This week, we go back in time to take a look at what most consider to be the first true RC monster truck: the Marui Big Bear. Back in 1984, this 1/12 scale crusher set the standard for a fat-tire stance with real monster proportions. the Big Bear is positively stone-age compared to today’s trucks, but […]

Brushless Motor Tech: Everything You Need to Know

Brushless Motor Tech: Everything You Need to Know

Confused by brushless motors? Wonder no more, we’ve got the answers to your questions about the cylindrical spinners that turn volts and amps into miles per hour. From essential features to the mysteries of “KV” and “turns,” we’ll explain what you need to know to understand electric tech and make a smart buy for your […]
The Sauce Situation: Do We Need Tighter Rules For Traction Compounds?

The Sauce Situation: Do We Need Tighter Rules For Traction Compounds?

If you race, you’ve probably been aware of a pretty serious issue going on. It’s dangerous, often smells terrible and can leave you with headaches, foul clothing or even worse. I’m talking about tire sauce. The origins of the use of tire sauce were probably first introduced in on-road and used on rubber and foam […]

Biggest in RC: Quarter-Scale Oval Action

Biggest in RC: Quarter-Scale Oval Action

If there’s one segment of RC that’s still reserved for the hardest of hardcore, it’s quarter-scale racing. Just about big enough to ride on, built just like full-size race cars, and definitely not RTR (or cheap), these massive machines are the ultimate RC cars. Watch them go left in Stock Car, East Coast Modified, and […]
Axial Yeti XL Now Available In Kit Form

Axial Yeti XL Now Available In Kit Form

That’s right, the Axial Yeti XL monster buggy is now available as a kit, which means you get to put it together yourself. That also means that you can install the electronics of your choice and give the body you own custom paint job. But that’s not all of the good news. Axial includes some […]

Standard Wheel, Drop Wheel, or Sticks?

Standard Wheel, Drop Wheel, or Sticks?

“Which transmitter configuration do you prefer to drive: standard wheel or drop-wheel?” That’s the question we asked on Facebook, and here’s the results in chart form, as of this morning. We also added “sticks” for those who piped in with their love for driving by thumbs. Click over to our FB page and add your […]
Pro-Line Fuel Stick: See It First

Pro-Line Fuel Stick: See It First

Consider Pro-Line’s new Fuel Stick to be World Champion Approved: Ty Tessmann and his family team helped develop the high-tech filler-upper and used it to blast Nitrotane into his Hot Bodies D812 at the Worlds in Italy. Ty was noted for his lightning-fast pit stops on the way to the win, so you know the […]

Vaterra Twin Hammers Recreated in LEGO, Controlled by SmartPhone

Vaterra Twin Hammers Recreated in LEGO, Controlled by SmartPhone

It can take a long time to put together some of the more complex LEGO models with instructions. We can only guess how long it took LEGO builder “Sariel” to build this fully-functional, fully-suspended, phone-controlled LEGO Twin Hammers out of pure imagination. See it in action below. In addition to featuring the mind-blowing build, the […]
Traxxas “BackSlush” by Scott Oney [Reader’s Ride]

Traxxas “BackSlush” by Scott Oney [Reader’s Ride]

Scott Oney is a Traxxas fan, and hailing from Spirit Lake, ID he knows a bit about snow. He decided to combine the two into the ground-up build you see before you, which Scott has dubbed the BackSlush! Originally (and, we assume, before he named it!) the project was started using a Traxxas Rustler chassis, […]
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