ORIGINAL: t-max97
ORIGINAL: Foxy
ORIGINAL: t-max97
Come on foxy I think your the one being a bit biased, Its ALL a matter of opinion you cant write down pro's and cons for each because everyone's list would be different. And I dont think the hobbies status should be measured by how many over priced electrics traxxas sales.
I promise you I'm not biased. Tell me, what's better, more power or less power?
Depends on the circumstances and the vehicle, if you keep adding power to something its going to fail somewhere, and electric isn't always more powerfull than nitro. Sure if you go get a high end brushless lipo setup it will typically beat a high end nitro in a drag race but more power isn't always better, slow and steady wins the race lol not that nitro is slow.
Depends on what circumstances? At all scales there is a brushless set you can buy over a counter that flat out destroys any nitro engine in the same class for power.
Also, slow and steady wins the race? You know that's just something we tell noobs so they don't go WOT all over the track until they learn how to go fast, right? Consistency and technique win races.
This track thing needs to be put down now. The reason electric isn't faster round some tracks is because not even a rocket ship would be faster round those tracks, they are designed to limit the speed of the race and therefore make technique count more. If they made the tracks for electric speeds, they would be much bigger and straighter tracks, and then the racing would be like it is in real life, whoever has the biggest wallet wins. Thank god track designers long ago made sure that a fat wallet wasn't the be-all-and-end-all of racing by making technical tracks.
Case in point, top gear test track...the old classic, one of my favorite comparisons, Lamborghini Murcielago vs Mitsubishi EVO9 440, despite the fac that the lambo is a significantly faster car than the 440, it couldn't pull away. If you had a lamborghini, would you have sold it and bought an evo after seeing that?