I love nitro, but I HATE pull-starts! It’s as simple as that. I was cleaning up an old nitro car to give to a friend and I wanted to fire up the engine and make sure it ran well before passing it off. Since this machine w...
2WD electric racing is awesome. No other class of off-road will teach you how to drive like an overpowered race buggy. The class has been dominated by AE for…well forever, but that hasn’t stopped every race company ...
Remember when Viper made car alarms that talked? Yeah, when people maybe thought that your car talking was scary and wouldn’t steal your Alpine. The Viper RC speed control doesn’t talk to you, but it will power any ...
My name is Jeff*. I live in Canada, I really have a strange obsession with penguins and live in my own basement. Last Thursday I was representing Velocity RC Magazine on the Cooking With Nitro Pod Cast and babbled with the crew...
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...
If you had to make a list of the top 25 cars of all time, would you be able to do it? As you can see from the title we had to chop our list down. Why? Because we used a group voting system and some of us chose dumb, and some ch...
Everybody says that magazines don’t “test” their cars right. They don’t beat them to death, they don’t run them long enough. Pretty pictures never tell the tail of testing in full. So we figured we...
Vegas Evolution v223 is now available for download. HotWire v8.4.1 includes v223 Vegas Evolution for the RS, RSPro and RX8 ESCs giving users smoother throttle, smoother brakes, the ability to load, save and transfer custom ESC ...