In 1988 many of you weren’t born. If you were, and you were racing RC cars when Tamiya released the Avante you were excited. Back then Yokomo and Schumacher 4WD kits dominated the race tracks, but Tamiya’s crazy new...
HPI is about to turn the electric 1/5 scale world upside down again with their new Savage based Short Course Truck. The Savage drivetrain is super flexible, allowing HPI monster trucks to reach legendary levels of durability an...
Beauty, they say, is only skin deep. Well this Apache C1 has some thick skin because… look at it. Look. It’s stunning. We were excited when HPI released this RTR, and now that we got one for testing there maybe be a...
I’ll be honest, when I heard a new line of RC cars was coming out I thought it would just be another “found it on the streets of China and pawning it off as “designed.” I was wrong. I stopped in at the n...
Came across some news while browsing the information superhighway. Looks like J-Concepts and OC/RC Raceway are teaming up to bring the Stock Nationals to town in April. One more reason it’s great to live in Southern Calif...
Very few people build kits anymore, which is a shame because it is so fun! And, you get the opportunity to learn the ins-and-outs of your specific chassis. Tamiya shot over a TA-06 kit rocking a Mercedes-Benz GT3 body and we...
Tamiya bodies are beautiful! It seems that everything their mold maker touches turns into miniature art. Their bodies are far superior to anything within the industry when it comes to detail. But, sometimes this attention to de...
To all those 30-somethings who used to play with toy cars when they were younger and want to pretend they are 9-years old again; Tamiya is celebrating their 30th anniversary of the Sand Scorcher with an improved re-release of t...