I want one

It's going to cost you.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-TRAXXAS-XO-1-SUPERCAR-RC-Car-with-2-3S-LIPOS-WE-SHIP-INTERNATIONAL-/251716690800?pt=Radio_Control_Vehicles&hash=item3a9b7be370

http://www.modelsport.co.uk/traxxas-xo-1-brushless-supercar-2.4ghz-tqi-link-wireless-red-/rc-car-products/367248

Thought I'd let people know what we finally bought, we went for the HPI Maverick strada evo mt.

 

 

Its a fantastic monster truck for the money, its quick enough for my son to handle, infact he is probably more skilled than I am, he's great at drifting it on the gravel/ice & snow (the dog loves chasing it too).

 

The 1st purchase will be another battery and a quick charger (currently waiting 6hrs between charges)

Good choice.

 

Back in the day, battery cars were slower and slower to charge but could be used indoors, didn't stink up the place and could go in reverse! (Important if you're practicing and your minion - younger bro - storms off in a huff!).

 

The nitro cars had it with the overall experience. Tended to be bigger, faster, a lot NOISIER!!!.

 

I s'pose one way to put it is we found a lot easier ways to play with electric cars by creating courses in the back garden than we did with the IC cars. For the ICs, you need a car park or disused field.... Then you only get to play for 5 minutes 'cos the noise attracts curious numpties.

Great purchase, great cars with excellent VFM.

 

Thing I can't hack these days with the new cars is the controllers - I was brought up on "sticks" for my cars and planes, but the controllers with the wheel I just cannot get on with!

It really is strange, me and the boy have been racing on and off road for nearly 15 years, he can use sticks like he was born o them, I can't, and have to use a wheel set. Have to say though that a trigger is not the most natural think to accelerate and brake with. My son had an HPI monster truck a few years back, good strong base, only weak point seemed to be the front diff gears wore really quickly.

Think the wheel/sticks thing comes down to what you learned with.

 

For me sticks feels unnatural but learning the orientation of the wheel did take a little thought/practice.

 

With regards to the diff wear, that might be to bad balancing of the power - changing diff oils might help (there are different weights available so making the front stickier might help reduce the wear and push power rearwards)

Back in the day when my son had his, the diffs ran without oil, unlike the gear diffs we run today. It also did not help that once the diff bedded in, there were no HPI shims to edit out the backlash, so we used to use Tamiya TRF shims. This was only a stop gap though, as the casings were very soft and wore quite badly.

 

Having run HPI cars onroad for a couple of years, I'm glad to say that is not a problem any more. I have to say though that I am still very much an Xray/ Kyosho fan though, quality of their parts and engineering is very good, and Xray instruction manuals are class leading.