What's tha best car

Hey,

I was wondering i am about to buy a car and most likly a street car and i was wondering what would be the best car or the fastest for my money no more that 450 that goes for off road to i perfer street but i wouldnt mind having a big truck or something.
Help me out

It depends on what you want it for. If you want a drifter than look in the drifting thread that has been stickied at the top. :)

for speed mostly i wouldnt ming having a drifter

You dont exactly want speed with drifting, you want torque. Otherwise you sit doing donuts.

I know but i want a fast car But i wouldnt mind having a drifter which car is good for speed and which is for driftin

Have u had a RC car before? if not then get electric for sure

i dont want electric i had electric i want gas

Why the hell does everyone want gas? I've owned them...woop-di-doo I pay an extra $200 to have a farting noise (that I can make myself), and hours of maintence.

10:1 this person is under the age of 16. :cya:

Also, nitros are horrible for drifting because of the weight ratio, and you go through clutches like its candy.

Why the hell does everyone want gas? I've owned them...woop-di-doo I pay an extra $200 to have a farting noise (that I can make myself), and hours of maintence.

10:1 this person is under the age of 16. :cya:
By the looks of his grammer (i.e. "tha") hes definatly under 16.

I just don't understand why people want nitro so bad. What's wrong with having electric? You can get them up to the same speed as a nitro and their easier to repair.

I just don't understand why people want nitro so bad. What's wrong with having electric? You can get them up to the same speed as a nitro and their easier to repair.

Sooooooooo true, and mike is right as well, nitros pretty much suck for drifting, id say get the yokomo drift kit and if u can, pop in a brushless, prolly one of the best drift setups ive ever seen, and if you got money to burn get the Yokomo SSG chasis + brushless

Well by the look of his grammer hes is he's and i ask a simply question that everybody got affencive on.
Ok do you have to charge electric and how long do you have to charge it? I.ve heard around here you want nitro I don't know I ask yall. and yall start making fun of my grammer and stuff. I mean damn I didn't think yall cared really I mean I know yall can read and I know yall know what it say's. So electric is faster huh? Can u change the bodies to like saleens and trucks and stuff. I mean I don't know I race quad's and car's trying out knew hobbies that I don't know anything about but some day I will just like all my hobbies. Well I want reliablity so what should I go with and I want speed and i would also like to drift but I don't want it just for drifting.
and Gtmike sorry I had like a radio shack car and i thought all electric were the same. so i wanted to try out gas. but if theres electric cars that can charge for like 5 mins and ride for like an hour then tell me about it. I hope this wasn't offensive wasn't ment to be if it offends you then I guess deal with it or you bann me.

Electrics are fully interchangeable, my batts take 15minutes to charge. I get 10-15minute runs, by the time Im done running I have another batt fully charged.

There are no fast cars, just fast drivers.

If you are new I suggest getting something easier to drive.

Nitros are nice and all I have it but it takes an expert to know what you are doing. If you are a beginner I suggest getting a HPI rtr gas.

Electric are nice as well, quiet and fast but just does not last as long in terms of laps.

Even electric there are novice and expert cars. where you really need to know what you are doing.

Well i learn really fast andi want to stat out big well not big but something that i can make fast

dude id have to say gas because i own one to me theyre just alot more fun and they are very fast. if u love ur hobbies u car always get a two speed yransmission and make ur car go faster sure its alot harder to maintain but it gets easier later. so i say stick with nitro ask how much AnArK1 how much he got his car for he said its really fast.

oh yeah i for got mension that with nitro cars you have to spend alot of money because gears, tires, spark plugs and petrol can get watsed easily if u don't maintain ur car the right way

lus u can upgrade ur engine i just did and plus i also bought a 2 speed and it just went flying down the street

I have had alot of experience in nitro's for the last few years, i got into nitro mainly because i liked the idea of an ic engine, i was also inexperienced then and thought they were fantastically superior, but now i have started moving back to electric, contrary to what i thought electrics arent that long to recharge and the only electrics i had ever dealt with are those 'tandy' typre rc cars that charge for 12 hours just for a 7 minuite run. plus the maintainance thing is a big hassle, constantly haing to clean and keep the engine tuned properly was a realy beyotch, id say go electric.

oh and i finally saw that 3 speed on road truck at my local hobby store with a demo in the back street, wow does that thing go :O

hey u siad u raced quads were they yours?

if they were you would have to clean them and maintain them so u shouldnt have any problems with nitro

Yea it was mostly air filter, tire presure, carburator.
We got a r/c shop down here and they have one for sale it look like a race car camaro and i would like to have that and fix it up i have a problem with fixing thing up to go faster my truck my quads and anything else with a motor my truck has a chip and nitrous and after market head and headers with a lot more stuff. Yea i know nitro has problems to cause i will watch those buggys at the track down here and they are constantly stoping and tuning but i would rather tune and put gas in it than have to charge and charge and play for like 10 mins. and i will prob have it fixed up and have like 20 bodies for it lol reason why i want one is because its like a model car u got to build it but when u build this one it goes lol and u can put bodies on it and paint them and i think that would be really cool

hey man u've had experience with engines and stuff just get a nitro just get something that fits ur budget and something u like. remeber wen buying dun worry about the shell worry about the engine and chassis. oh wen buying if u want try to look for something with the whole package i.e starter battery filler bottle and remote or if u have money buy an expensive car and buy the other stuff seperate.

have u had any experience driving a r/c car it can be hard to control for a beginer plus read the mannuals before starting. get a remote u feel comfortable with i use a normal stick one to me the pistols are alittle bit difficult.

anyway good luck with ur choice

Hey, what would be a good package can yall send me to a web site?

well as the sticky about drifting was posted, well as other people said nitros arent that good for drifting, but i would say that the Nitro RS4 type ss is a good option, plus it says in the drifting thread that from HPI's nitros, the type ss is the one for drifting, just get 2 pairs of tyres, one customed for drifting and the other ones for normal racing or what ever u want to use it

If you want to buy off a website, go to tower hobbies. they are pretty big and usually have some really nice prices, there are a few other options too. There isnt much difference between gas and electric in terms of speed. electric is just as fast as gas. The lap times that they turn at the track are almost identical as long as there are good drivers for both.

With a good battery pack and a good charger, the pack will only take about 25-30 min to charge and if you are using a stock motor geared right, you can run for about that long in a non racing situation. There are also many upgrades available for eletric r/c's as well to make them go faster.

Also, if you get more than one battery pack, you can have two charged, then as soon as one is done, take it, put the other pack in, and away you go. Your down time is as long as it takes for you to change the battery, and that doesnt take very long.

Why the hell does everyone want gas? I've owned them...woop-di-doo I pay an extra $200 to have a farting noise (that I can make myself), and hours of maintence.

10:1 this person is under the age of 16. :cya: What you got against people under 16?

If u got the cash for only one kit. I'd buy the best electric kit, xxx-s, it's more durable than a tc3 or yokomo kit. A tamiya 415 is 2nd choice. To make them drift just cut some pvc pipes or spraypaint caps and glue it on an old set of tires rather than buying the yokomo drift tires which are expensive.
If u want a nitro kit, you can't go wrong with a serpent 710. My second choice is a mugen mtx. These cars go past 70mph. Maintenance of nitro kits time consuming that's why I only have one nitro, an hpi rs4 ss on road touring and four electric kits in different classes, on road touring tbevo stock and tao4 modified, 1/12 minicooper, off road truck.

Check this out. Its got lots of tips for drift DIY

http://rcdrift.rs-scooby.com/rcdv3/tutorials.html

I'd say get the OFNA LD3 pro, its 2 speed, and it hits 50+ MPH and very durable.

Tandy Electronics - Mitsubishi Spider with a little wheel for burnouts. Top speed 3km/h $70 Perfect Purchase.

Personally, I find the electrics much more enjoyable for everday stuff and just pulling them out for friends to muck around with. But there is a certain love in me for my petrol car. So many hours of effort makes driving it so much more worth it. I would say, go HPI if it's your first car. Good cars.