Anyone shopping for a full size RC??

[JThiessen]

http://www.rallyfighter.com/

[whitrzac]

they were cool about 3 years ago when the project was announced/first made public.... then you relies that it is a dune buggy with a fiberglass shell...

[JERRY2KONE]

I dont get it. Whats the point? Considering how expensive it is just to play in teh R/C hobby in general I can only imagine how much it would cost to play with a 1:1 R/C vehicle. Thats just stupid if you ask me. I guess the filthy rich just don't have enough to play with already.

[JThiessen]

Not everything in life needs to be a minivan Jerry!

[JERRY2KONE]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

Not everything in life needs to be a minivan Jerry!

Hey dont be bashing our van now. Dont be a minivan hater.

No I just do not get the whole full size R/C thing. I don't care what kind of vehicle it is. So what 1/8, or even 1/5th aren't even enough to keep people busy so now they need to make full size vehicles remote. Where can anyone even run a 1:1 size remote control car safely? Can you imagine some idiot running one of these things and losing control of it near a housing area or a school playground? This has disaster written all over it.

[Losi LST2]

obviously not one of you actually read anything, it's not r/c, it's a full scale trophy truck with a body on it pretty much, you sit in it and drive, it's not rc.....

[1truckerdan]

Well the title does say "Anyone shopping for a full size RC??"

[1truckerdan]

I did read ...also clicked on the gallery

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

Hey dont be bashing our van now. Dont be a minivan hater.

Oh c'mon! You know we can't leave them alone!

I guess I should have been more explicit in my title - as was so tactfully pointed out by Mr. LST - yes, its a real vehicle, not an RC. Just looks like a Trophy Truck, and its little itty bitty toy cousins....

[1truckerdan]

I would love to take one out for a test drive.

[Krawlin]

Thats about the most worthless attempt at an offroad vehicle I've seen. For one that rear end looks like a puny GM 10 bolt, if not GM then something of the Chrysler variety with a ring gear at 8.8'' or smaller, which behind LS power like what is shown in the pictures, will not last long, especially in the dunes (about the only place that would be any good). And being front engine - rear drive, but with that short of a wheel base with the solid rear axle, it's high speed handling offroad probably isn't the greatest (short wheel base means short links for the rear suspension, look at any trophy truck and while they are almost all solid rear axle, they've got LONG suspension links for their 3 or 4 link setup). That thing is for people that know nothing about desert racing, the dunes, anything offroad really, but want to fit in with that crowd and have more money than brains and need to have creature comforts.

For the price they say there ($59,000), you could buy a very nice used Tatum Sand Cars rail (they are a cookie cutter sand rail, meaning lots of Tatum Sand Cars rails out there all about the same sans the paint and interior and powerplant) or a used custom built rail with a better trans like a Mendeola, more power, more suspension travel with much better brand name shocks like King, Fox, Radflo, etc., better looks in general, it will handle better at high speeds, and you won't seem like such a poser with a nice rail even if you don't know anything about it compared to that thing.


If you have a bit of technical savvy, can weld and fabricate and such (And I don't mean if you "think" you can weld or fabricate, I mean if you actually can, this isn't something you want to try unless you know you can do it right...), one could build a much better sand rail or prerunner truck themselves for around the same as buying a used rail, but have the pride and satisfaction of building it yourself to your specs with all the parts you want.


Rally Fail, not Rally Fighter.

[PBO]

That's funny...I got as far as V8 & automatic gearbox

Maybe rally means something different but to me it's not V8 nor a slush box

[E-Revonut]

Traxxas did do a 1:1 SC truck a couple years ago. It was detuned to aboy 600HP IIRC. Had 2 complete radio systems with fail safes for safety. If one radio system went down they had a backup and then a fail safe.