How Good Are Your Drift Skills
A small yokomo display of rc drift cars doing figure 8s at the Tamiya RC Car Saloon
Traxxas Revo – Drift King
Traxxas Revo – monster truck of dirt or drift king?
The reputation of the Traxxas Revo is without a doubt the king of monster trucks. They have a reputation of being the truck to buy that you can race straight out of the box, or just run around with your mates over just about any surface that will make your Revo dirty, dusty, muddy, wet and generally in need of being driven through a car wash!
That was until we caught this video clip on YouTube with these two sick looking Revos running street slicks and looking like they should be drifting with a street crew of Supras, RX-7s, skylines and other machine you kids are rolling these days.
All we can say is respect to you guys for thinking outside the box and turning your Traxxas Revo into a street machine! I am sure the designers at Traxxas did not see this one coming!
Keep up the good work guys!
If you need to get your hands on a Traxxas Revo, everyone needs one, pick one up at AMAZON HERE
Traxxas Revo Reviews
RC Car Reviews checked out the Traxxas Revo in an earlier post, but we also thought we would show you guys this youtube clip we found today.
All we can say is the Traxxas Revo can do anything.
Traxxas Revo Reviews
Traxxas Revo! What can you say let us take a look at the truck that is the choice of champions!
The Traxxas Revo is more than a toy with six National Championship Titles under the hood! The Traxxas Revo has some game, delivers uncompromising performance, tuning and durability! Here is our pros and cons list for the Traxxas Revo, but first have a look at the video of this baby in action!
Buy the Traxxas Revo from Amazon here
- Pros
- Everything that is possible it has.
- Cons
- There is Not one that we could find!
RC Car Reviews – Traxxas Slayer
RC Car Reviews – Traxxas Slayer
Traxxas Slayer, the bigger bro to the slash! Strap yourself in and get ready for intensity and realism that’s unrivaled in the nitro arena.
The Traxxas Slayer is a nitro driven 4wd beast at 1/10 scale size, however it could easily be mistaken for 1/8 scale model! Suitable for an aggressive powerful recreational toy or sick race machine; check out our pros and cons list before you buy one, and the video is worth a look if you’re not convinced you need one!
- Pros
- 4WD truck, o yerrrrrr
- Fantastic Value, check em out at Amazon now
- This bad boy comes stock with a 3.3 nitro Racing Engine
- Two speed gear box
- Electric starting system – everyone loves that!
- Inboard mounted shock absorbers
- Polished Resonator tuned pipe
- High-flow air filter
- DISK BRAKES!
- Comes fully assembled and ready to roll
- Sits low and wide so it handles like it’s on rails and megatron stable at speed – perfect for the track!
- Maximum performance, durability, reliability that you can expect from a Traxxas machine.
- Cons
- It is a nitro so it can be a little expensive to keep running, check out our pros and cons – Nitro V’s Electric at RC Car Reviews
- For racers you will need to upgrade your tires
Where is my credit card, time to get me in the game of nitro trucks! RC Car Reviews gets on the Traxxas Slayer.
Traxxas Slash Review
Traxxas Slash Review
If you checked our guide to buying an rc car, the nitro or electric question. Here is a pretty cool option if you go for the electric option.
RC Car Reviews want one and so should you, the Traxxas Slash! This little monster is a 2wd 1/10th scale electric bundle of joy in an RC Truck. Modeled after the short course truck, the CORR Pro-2, check out our pros and cons list that will have you buying this truck quicker than the RC Car Review crew.
- Pros
- Speeds 40mph + (with some simple little mods)
- Nearly completely waterproof
- Comes full assembled, just add batteries
- Comes with radio
- Cheap purchase price – check it out at Amazon here
- Ready to race on your local track or around your hood
- Cons
- You need to buy batteries, what a drag!
- It does’nt come with a beer cooler, sorry but we could not think of other cons!
Here is a short vid we found on youtube, these guys are fans of the Traxxas Slash as well by the look of it.
RC Car Reviews – Tools
Building a new RC Car? We have the ultimate tool to help you out!
Hudy who produce high quality RC products have released RC Car Stands, the RC Car Reviews crew have already thrown out our home made wooden numbers and replaced them with these bad boys.
They have introduced two sizes to keep all RC Car fans happy. All stands come with four rubber feet on the bottom to stop the stand from slipping around during those testing moments of construction and holes to keep your shocks in order while you give them some tender love and care, or a re-build. Each hole is marked with a position (FL, FR, RL, RR) so you know what shock goes back on where and keeps your ride tracking straight.
The 1/10 th size is built for scale touring cars, electric and nitro and has two foam strips for your touring car to rest on so you don’t damage that fine paint job you worked so hard on.
The 1/8 th size is built to suit buggies and truggies to keep all you guys and girls happy.
Check out the Hudy site here for more info and pics.
RC Car Reviews – Nitro or Electric
RC Car Reviews – Nitro or Electric?
RC Car Reviews would like to help out the newcomers to the RC world by answering the question what is the difference between nitro and electric RC cars and which one should you get. This is a question that we have asked ourselves many times here at RC Car Reviews when considering buying another RC car.
Let’s look at it in the raw basics, just how we like it!
- Nitro RC Car
Pros
- They can go faster, much FASTER!
- Most of the time a tank of fuel last longer than electric versions
- They are easy to re-fuel and be back on the track, in the dirt or following the hot girl down the street
Cons
- Require more maintenance and general cleaning
- More expensive to get into
- You could possibly get a speeding ticket if you test out on your street
- More expensive to keep running with replacement parts
- Noisy little machines so you could upset the neighbors
- Electric RC Car
Pros
- Cheap way to get into the sport to see if you like it
- Have low running costs
- They are not that loud so you can run them up and down the streets without pissing your neighbors off at 4 in the morning. Hey when you have no other place to set up a drift race you have to do what you have to do! Don’t you judge us!
- You will not be doing jobs around the house for your parents to pay off your new toy for as long as a nitro car, or thanking your wife for as long for letting you buy an overpriced toy!
- You can race them around inside the house without fuel fumes stinking out the house.
Cons
- They don’t go as fast
- They run out of charge quickly so you need to wait to re-charge your battery or have multiple batteries.
- All the cool guys have nitros, just kidding, we don’t have a nitro! Hmmmm maybe we aren’t cool after all.
So there it is, buy a nitro cause you will love the sport and upset the neighbors as much as you can so they buy one as well!
RC Drifting Japan Style
RC Car Reviews thought we would let the rest of the world know about how the Japanese do it when it come to rc car drifting!
We have to say that it is amazing the amount of detail and organization that goes into a weekend meet and how fanatical the Japanese are at RC drifting. We have been lucky to be at some meetings in Japan in the past as the RC Car Reviews crew live in Japan for several months of the year and it is not for our RC Car skills! Work always gets in the way!
Check it out here
The Future Of RC Cars
RC Car reviews openly admits that there are certain tasks around the house that nobody likes doing! After all it takes time away from playing with your collection of RC cars!
That leads us to our next situation; most RC fans have been verbally hounded either by wives or by mums to stop playing with your RC toys, they will always ask you to stop wasting time playing with your RC car, or refuse to buy little Johnny his first rc car. Poor little Johnny!
And yes I said, it is always mums! Most of the time Dads are supportive or watching from around the corner, bedroom window or garage as they want to play as well, but are afraid of being judged by the adult population!
So now RC Car Reviews fans we bring you a solution to their hounding! The future of RC Car arguments is here – please read.
This is a guarantee for the skeptics to see the positive side of RC Cars and all that is RC, the next questions is what can an RC helicopter accomplish around the house? If you have more solutions please let us know at RC Car Reviews.
