One of the more baffling trends is something that never took off. With 1/8-scale electric, and nitro, topping the “cool and trendy” bits of the hobby and Short Course being hugely popular the obvious mixed-breed of ...
The great thing about having 3 staff members, is that there is never a tie. But the bad things is, there are simply just 3 different opinions on what we like. While we can eventually agree, we figured this was a good time to ad...
Traxxas has a huge target strapped to it’s back and just about every company is trying to compete for sales with the RC giant. Arrma is a new company, but it’s trying to steal that winning formula of price, quality,...
Issue #17 Features our review of the Losi 8IGHT Gas Buggy. In VRC_016 we dyno’d the Dynamite .31 engine and got a good result, but that’s where track testing and dyno curves don’t always add up. We spent 3 ful...
If you’re new to this great hobby, most of this article won’t make sense; but if you’ve been a toy car veteran of a decade or two, this read should bring back some fond (or not-so-fond) memories of a time when...
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 ...
Can’t paint? No problem, VRC Mag will show you how to slap together a relatively simple rattle-can paint job with external stickers that will look way better than that one-color-wonder you’ve been rocking for the pa...
Trail/Adventure/Scale whatever trucks you want to call them, they are huge. They have been huge. The industry’s racing legends have been mad at this class for 10 years, but now they are everywhere. This issue we celebrate the...