Which R/C car should I buy?
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I want to buy myself an R/C car for Christmas. The wife has indicated that she won't give me a hard time about it so long as I keep the spend sensible. 
I recently bought my son a Tamiya Rising Storm 4WD electric. It's a laugh, but to be honest I find it a little boring - too much grip / not enough power, so it just corners on grass like its on rails. So sharing his / buying a second is not really what I want.
Besides, I quite fancy a nitro - have done for years. The wife thinks it will be too noisy and will annoy the neighbours and that I won't use it much as a result, but we'll put that to one side for a moment.
I've been having a good look round www.modelsport.co.uk at the RTR models they have, and looking at the videos, and the HPI Savage 25 RTR looks pretty cool, although at £309 + extras (ie. delivery & essential accessories), it is probably exceeding my promise to keep the price sensible. Still, the video of it and also the Savage 21 pulling serious air on skateboard ramps ( see www.modelsport.co.uk/video/savage_skatepark_01.mov) really tempt me, especially since we have some public skateboard ramps just down the road from us.
The other one that looks fun is the HPI Nitro Rush Evo RTR. At £159 + extras it's more sensible on price, and being 2WD promises to be lots of lairy fun and possibly cheaper to run (less to break) too.
Does anyone have any comments / suggestions / advice?
Cheers
Jon
Edited as the GS doesn't seem to like the kind of URLs I was trying to create.
>> Edited by JonRB on Monday 5th December 15:23
I recently bought my son a Tamiya Rising Storm 4WD electric. It's a laugh, but to be honest I find it a little boring - too much grip / not enough power, so it just corners on grass like its on rails. So sharing his / buying a second is not really what I want.
Besides, I quite fancy a nitro - have done for years. The wife thinks it will be too noisy and will annoy the neighbours and that I won't use it much as a result, but we'll put that to one side for a moment.
I've been having a good look round www.modelsport.co.uk at the RTR models they have, and looking at the videos, and the HPI Savage 25 RTR looks pretty cool, although at £309 + extras (ie. delivery & essential accessories), it is probably exceeding my promise to keep the price sensible. Still, the video of it and also the Savage 21 pulling serious air on skateboard ramps ( see www.modelsport.co.uk/video/savage_skatepark_01.mov) really tempt me, especially since we have some public skateboard ramps just down the road from us.
The other one that looks fun is the HPI Nitro Rush Evo RTR. At £159 + extras it's more sensible on price, and being 2WD promises to be lots of lairy fun and possibly cheaper to run (less to break) too.
Does anyone have any comments / suggestions / advice?
Cheers
Jon
Edited as the GS doesn't seem to like the kind of URLs I was trying to create.
>> Edited by JonRB on Monday 5th December 15:23
roop said:Grass mainly, mainly our back garden or the public playing fields.
As for something fun to muck about with it depends on what type of ground you are running on really...
Sounds to me that the Savage 25 might be more of a serious undertaking than I am able to accomodate at present.
rude-boy said:Hmmm. This is looking less and less attractive.
THB the nitro ones are by far the best but they really are not toys. You will have to bank on spending as much, if not more, time prepping, repairing and tinkering with them than you do running them.
I really only want casual / fun use - I wasn't really planning on "getting into" R/C cars (if you see what I mean) and tinkering / repairing doesn't really appeal to me.
Ho hum. Knock that one on the head and borrow my son's Rising Storm occasionally, I reckon.
roop said:Well, that's good to know considering I made the purchasing decision on it with little or no knowledge of these things. I chose a 4WD electric buggy, RTR, that looked well-built and reasonably priced from a website without ever seeing one 'in the plastic'. Guess I was lucky (or else showed an uncanny eye for a good 'un
TBH Jon, the Rising Storm is a cracking buggy. I have a Gravel Hound (exactly same buggy but with a different shaped shell). I have hopped it up with a few aftermarket parts and it's one of the most competent and forgiving buggies I have ever driven. Superb for the price.
) TBH, if the Rising Storm had more power than grip then it would be a whole lot more fun. Maybe I should just buy some extra wheels and put smooth grooved tyres on it. That would presumably make it a bit more lairy on grass?
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