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So let’s say you’ve just entered the RC car world and you’re ready to start tuning your ride, but you haven’t the first clue on where to start. you’re a backyard warrior, skate park smasher or track loyalist, there are enough tuning options on even the simplest of vehicles to make your head spin.

It’s about time! Those big, beautiful, beefy Chevys from the mid 1950’s have always been and will always be some of the coolest “hot rods” to ever cruise the malt shoppe on a Friday night. It is high time someone immortalized these amazing muscle machines in Lexan…. even if they can’t call it a Chevy.

In RC Short Course Driver Volume 2, I had the opportunity to compare a stock Traxxas Slash against a fully-modified, race-prepped Slash. As you would expect, while the stock Slash put down some pretty good laps, the modified version was quite a bit faster around our test track.

Add performance and durability to your truck The Traxxas Slash is arguably one of the most popular radio control vehicles of all time. Being so popular, it has lent itself to countless hop-ups and upgrades with some being more flashy …

Hitec has released a new touch screen charger that is sure to catch the eye of those wanting this type of technology sitting in their pits. The X1 Touch is the little brother to Hitec’s X1-200, but it’s still packed …

The Nissan Silvia was possibly one of Japan’s finest tuner vehicles available stateside throughout the ‘90s and a dominant force on the circuit. The last variant of the Nissan Silvia sadly wasn’t available in the states, and that is a …

As you can about imagine, we have quite a few RC rides here in the RC Driver office; everything from on-road cars monster trucks to short course and even a few drift cars. They are all cool in their own …

The best time to add the body post holes to your Lexan shell is before it is painted. However, sometimes we might not know what chassis a body will be used on or maybe we will buy a pre-painted body …

HPI’s Sprint 2 Sport has quickly become one of RC’s go-to vehicles. You can catch this versatile on-roader racing around asphalt (or carpet) tracks, sliding sideways through drift courses or even navigating rally courses littered with different types of terrain. …

Tekno RC continues to impress us with their vehicle offerings. We’ve recently built up the NB48, where its high-quality components and excellent engineering can really be seen within our build photos. Well we just couldn’t get enough and picked up …

People love new electronics, whether it’s the a new phone or a radio for the RC world. Once a new electronic item is announced, enthusiasts flock to see what new innovations the piece of equipment has to offer. That was …

Let’s face it, our beloved hobby can be tough to crack into, especially with the costs of some of our rigs, and generally in our hobby you get what you pay for. Thankfully with the advances in high quality electronics, …

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 Losi Racing 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. This buggy boasts a lot of race-worthy features like a narrow …

We’ve been busy at the track dialing in our Team Durango DEX410 V4 1/10 Electric 4WD Competition buggy. During the suspension tweaks and tire changes we captured some video of the DEX410 V4 diving into the corners and launching off …