It was probably less than a minute after the 8IGHT 3.0 Nitro Buggy was released that electric power junkies were wondering if and when an E-3.0 would hit the shelves. Some wondered if it would be a conversion again or would Team Losi Racing go the route of their popular and newly-released TEN SCTE 2.0 with an all-electric specific kit. TLR is apparently done with conversions because the 8IGHT-E 3.0 is here and it’s all electric and ready for all the racing you can throw at it.
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Axial SCX10 G6 Jeep Wrangler
Do Work Driver Words: Ty Giebel Photos: Ty Giebel Since 2007, Axial has been a staple of the crawling community and events around the world. But over the last couple of years, radio control rock crawling’s focus has shifted away …
Read More »Outerwears Slash 4×4 Generation 2 Shroud
Outerwears has been fighting debris and contaminants on vehicles big and small for years. They have helped us in the RC market keep our machines in better running condition with their Outerwears prefilter for motors, air filters, Shockwears for shocks and …
Read More »Tamiya Freightliner Cascadia Evolution
The radio control hobby started off as an evolution of static modeling and Tamiya has been the leader in radio control modeling since the beginning. Over the years, they never lost sight of the true modeling aspect and many of their kits offer you the full experience of building, painting and driving a near replica of a full-scale machine.
Read More »Pro-Line Hauler Bag
The All-In-One-Hauler The act of gear transportation has become quite an art form. It takes months, if not years, of slowly organizing your equipment to fit your most needed parts into your boxes, the boxes into the bags and the …
Read More »Hop It Up – AsiaTees Hooks-Up My Tamiya XV-01
There are many reasons that I love my Tamiya XV-01. My top 2 are the cool, front motor design and that is is based on my real Subaru XV-01 Crosstrek. A while back I did a complete review on a …
Read More »Vaterra Slick Rock
Imagine yourself strapped into a custom built rock buggy. You are surrounded by a steel cage that you welded together yourself in your garage. Five hundred horses are rumbling under the hood. You are entering a creek bed, and as you approach the first rock, you peg the throttle.
Read More »Basher / HobbyKing Nitro Circus
It’s no surprise that as the electric side of our hobby gains popularity and becomes more powerful and faster, we are seeing larger and more exciting models available for reasonable prices. A couple of years ago if you wanted a large electric monster truck, you had to basically custom convert a nitro truck.
Read More »Traxxas Rally
Serving Up Some Action in Snow! Words: Dean Berry You have to give it to Traxxas, when they design a platform they know how to use it and use it well, across a wide variety of vehicles. Take the Slash …
Read More »Losi TEN Rally X
Fun, Controllable Power It goes without saying that everyone from newbies to the most experienced racer wants cool-looking vehicle with raw, over-the-top power. Unfortunately, this can often come at a steep price and these super-powerful vehicles can be difficult for …
Read More »Team Associated RC10B5 Team Kit
Continuing the Dominance? Words: Carl Hyndman Photos: Carl Hyndman Today’s tracks are faster, have more traction and incorporate features that are technically harder than anything we saw a decade ago. Considering that the winningest 2WD buggy in history has been …
Read More »Telluride Transformed
Not all projects have to require a major overhaul or rebuild to create a dramatically different vehicle than the one you start with. What you are reading about is one such project. My Traxxas Telluride actually saw a lot of action before I started to think about how I could change it.
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4WD All-Terrain Monster Truck Words: David Baker Photos: Walter Sidas/David Baker Vaterra hit the ground running when they introduced us to their entirely new line of cars that included the Glamis Uno buggy, Twin Hammers rock/desert racer and the Kemora …
Read More »Power Up With The iMax X200 AC/DC Touch Screen Charger
Since the release of the X200 DC charger a few years back the people over at iMax have released a series of successful color, touch-screen balance chargers that seemingly one-up one another. The X200 was followed up by the X350, …
Read More »Axial Deadbolt
Locked, Loaded and Ready to Rock Words: David Harrington Photos: Walter Sidas The rock crawler world has always been divided into two distinct segments, the scalers and the competition rigs. Many of the elements that make a crawler look true …
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