ORIGINAL: Chris_RC
ORIGINAL: devilchrist
ORIGINAL: supertib
IMO its cheaper and better to just buy a quality product right off the bat...buying the cheap stuff just leads to breakage, frustrations and extra costs.... in RC you get what you pay for, I don't care what anyone says to the contrary....
disagree,
having went the other route, I bought duratrax raze, I'm happy that I went that route, didn't have broken part, and very reliable, durable buggy.
It's actually the other way, high end card are made light and fast, easier to break lightened parts and on cars that go really fast.
Raze is plenty fast, and at tower it's ~200 will be fine for 99.9% of the beginners for, and it's good enough to keep as a basher once you get higher end, all you need is fuel, and batteries.
once you get an idea of what 1/8 buggies can do then start researching on what buggy you actually want. I just bought myself the Odonnell Z01B 2in1 kit and OS speed 21 Vspec motor for it, because I knew I was going to continue this hobby for along time.
sorry dude.. to a new person comming in to this hobby ANYcar is gonna be easily breakable. you take a $1000+ hopped up buggy and give it to a newbie to race around a track as fast as he can, he'll break something very soon. driver skill is just as important as durability
What a lot of people here will tell you is to get expensive right away but that's false, most of these people have gone the cheap/used route and bought the nice one later, they've gotten better at control and break less, then they start thinking it's was expensive, so it must be more durable,
Rather they have become better drivers and crash less, or manage theri crash better.
It's all about experience when it comes to RCcar's breaking.
sure some definitely more durable then others, but $$ doens't mean it's more durable
Race buggies (except RC8) are more durable than that raaze. Racing puts more stress on a car than bashing. Race kits like the 8ight, MP9, Xray, Mugen, etc. are extremely durable.
there are lots of durable quality inexpensive cars out there, some have been mentioned jhere,, best is to do research here, follow the threads. if it isn't adecent thread here most likely won't be a good choise.
MYrecommendation is picking up a Losi 1.0 RTR used. They are going dirt cheap because of the release of 2.0. and parts are cheap also. MBX4/5's are also going down with rease of the 6.
only gripe about the RAZEi have say is the availability of parts. they are becomming slim. other than that it's still a solid performer. it's basically copy of Ofna hyper7 and most parts fit on the RAZE