LIVE BUILD - Losi 8IGHT 2.0 EU - Updated 11.44am Finished! Hello, good morning and welcome to our live build of the Losi 2.0 EU edition. This buggy has seen great success since its launch seeing success in Europe and the UK at BRCA Nationals thanks More...

The Once Over...Traxxas Slash 4x4 Short Course trucks have been one of the success stories in the RC scene recently, coupling scale looks with good off-road performance. All the major players have short course racers now with Traxxas being one of More...

LIVE BUILD! - Tamiya Sand Scorcher - Chassis Done! (Update 16/05/10 18:17) Hello, good evening and welcome to our 'Live Build' of the Tamiya Sand Scorcher! Our live builds will allow you to follow progress of the assembly of the car as it is done More...

The Once Over – LRP S10 Blast BX RTR Buggy When we heard that LRP were doing their own Ready-To-Run 1:10 electric buggy we were keen to see what they could bring to the party. When we found out the UK retail price was to be around 150 quid, More...

Track Test – FTX Outrage Previously we had given the FTX Outrage a Once Over look (CLICK HERE) and quite liked what we found. This 1:8 nitro buggy comes as a Ready To Run package, all you need to add is fuel, AA batteries for the radio system More...

Track Test – Losi Ten-T Ok, to start this it appears I may have told a blatant lie...I said in the online review posted in early January (CLICK HERE) that we would give the Losi Ten-T a sound thrashing as soon as the snow cleared. However, in More...

The Once Over...FTX Outrage FTX are the reason I came back to RC Cars after being away from them since I was 16, I was bored at work one day and did some searching I soon found myself with a 'fun' car (that quickly got hopped up with all the More...

Build Report – Schumacher Mi4LP (Pro) Schumacher Racing certainly know their electric touring cars. Having tasted European Championship success previously thanks to Teemu Leino, this year they took the title they had been chasing for some time, More...

The Once Over...Losi Ten-T Sometimes you sit there and think....why have they done that? We see most of the major releases here at Racer and have had no end of derivative cars. What I mean is we almost are at the point where we have defined More...

The Once Over...Xray T3 Team Xray have one of the most relentless development programmes for their cars in the RC industry. The Slovakian manufacturer has made massive inroads into the racing marketplace through this with a range that encompasses More...

The Once Over...Tamiya XB Pro Hatsune Miku Studie Glad BMW Z4 As any RC car fan knows, Tamiya get the most out of their touring car chassis kits offering them with a plethora (good word, gives self hi-five) of bodyshells as well as in both kit More...

The Once Over...Losi Mini Desert Racers The latest Losi Desert Racers are offered as either a truck or buggy. Losi broke new ground some six years ago when they launched the Mini-T. This really was the truck that kick started the micro More...

Jumbo Jumping! Back in May 2009, Racer was contacted by a company called DVD Pro who had been commissioned to produce Richard Hammond’s Top Gear Uncovered – The DVD Special on behalf of the BBC. The initial conversations involved having an More...

Build Report - HPI Racing Formula Ten Ok, so RC F1 cars are nothing new, HPI Racing have made them before amongst other manufacturers. But F1 is making a comeback in the RC world with both Tamiya and HPI Racing with their Formula Ten here More...

Build Report - Kyosho Inferno MP9 The Kyosho Inferno has a long and illustrious history in the 1:8 off-road scene. Through it's various incarnations it has taken many titles from National right up to World Championship level. Here now we have the More...

The Once Over...HPI Racing Wheely King 4x4 Iron Outlaw The Wheely King from HPI has been around for a good couple of years now. So here is it's latest incarnation, the same chassis that we know and love but with some new bodyshells and graphics More...

The Once Over...HPI Racing Crawler King Crawling - What’s it all about? You don’t go 100's of miles per hour; you don’t even clock up laps! But put that all aside find a rocky muddy hill and try and climb it with this little beauty from More...

Quiet Inferno - The VE Brushless 1:8 buggies are all the rage at the moment, the combination of speed and performance without the anti-social noise sometimes associated with 1:8 proving to be very alluring for some. While many of the big More...

Tamiya’s Evo Gets The X-Factor Tamiya’s TT01 chassis has been their entry-level touring car chassis for some years now. Recently it was refreshed to give us the TT01E which had the same basic design but altered a few bits to More...

VRC PRO IS WYSISWYR… RC simulators have some very special features which make them the ideal simulation, more than any other type of simulation game. The most important feature is the nature of RC (for remote or radio control) itself. Being More...