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The anticipation is high for the new Traxxas Ford GT 4-Tec 2.0. The car shares no resemblance to its predecessor the 4-Tec, but the name does carry some serious weight. The 4-Tec successfully introduced many drivers to electric on-road fun. …

You want to get into RC. You want a truck you can bash and have fun with and you don’t want to break the bank to do it. Do you want fries with that too? Then get in your car …

It appears that choosing a charger is more difficult than choosing a new RC car nowadays. The selection of chargers available seems endless. So how do you pick one? Sure you look for features like charge rates and types of …

Everyone had a first day in RC… EVERYONE! In Episode 002 of our “Get Into RC” video series, we are going to show you the anatomy of your basic radio system. Even though the radio (or transmitter) you may have …

Vehicle maintenance is a task that often gets 'put off' for one reason or another. However, to keep our vehicles in top condition, preventative maintenance is something we all must do between enjoyable sessions of racing or running our vehicles! Here are a few tips that will keep you running your vehicles rather than working on them.

If you have been around this great hobby for a long while like I have you have seen a great many cool vehicles come and go. Some, that shall remain nameless, never really caught on or were poorly designed. Others had a huge fan following but their time simply ran out and they were superseded by newer and more modern vehicles.

Part of owning an RC vehicle is performing maintenance to keep it running at its absolute best. Wrenching on your ride is actually one of the aspects that makes RC so much fun. Not only are you keeping your car operating at its best, but it also gets you familiar with how it works.

A workspace can be something as simple as a bench in your garage or basement, or something as extravagant as an all new exterior building for your hobby. We’ve tried to work in the garage (living in Florida that’s rarely an option without having heat stroke), and our home doesn’t have a basement either.

For a few months now, Hobbico has been teasing the RC masses with sneak peek videos of their new release, the ARRMA Nero 6S BLX. Vague, super sci-fi looking videos tantalized fans, but cut to the end before any real info was revealed. Well, the news is out and the Nero is about to hit the streets.

A big part of the cool factor behind driving radio control cars is customizing your vehicle to your specific style. We’re not just talking about how crazy you go with anodized or carbon fiber hop-ups, we’re talking about the look …

A few weekends ago, during open practice on a Sunday race, everything came to an alarming halt. Engines shut down, cars stopped on the track, the pits fell silent and a crowd of shocked and concerned drivers made their way …

  Take a look at this massive machine that just arrived on the RC Driver Reveal Bench for review, the ARRMA Kraton. The ARRMA Kraton is a 1/8-scale off-road monster truggy capable of insane speeds that first caught our attention when …

When you check out this video you will see an E-buggy looks like a Tekno EB48 however, this is an EB48 Super Lite, a buggy built off of the popular Tekno SCT410 short course platform. Tekno saw racers using SCT410’s …

Team Associated set out to give racers a dialed SC truck that they can add their skill to, to dominate at the track. The result of their revamp of the popular SC10 is the SC10.2 Factory Team, the epic level …

Within the same office building as RC Driver magazine are the Fly RC, Heli Pilot and MultiRotor Pilot magazine offices. We were a little jealous when a 3D printer arrived in the MultiRotor Pilot shop to print custom frames for …