yea, 1/8th scale is bigger. It basically means 1 inch on the truck would be 8 inches on the full scale, so the bigger the number your dividing by, the smaller the truck.
I'm going to be devils advocate here and say go 2wd. If you may build a track, get a T4 or rustler. They're 2wd and SUPER easy to maintain, cheaper, electric, and if you have the nitro bug, than a GT2, which is just the gas version of the T4, or a nitro rustler, which is the gas version of the rustler.
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