Matt_Gruizinga

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[link=http://www.hpiracing.com/kitinfo/32710/]HPI Switch?[/link]

i first thought, ooo smart car. then i realsized it is FWD. which is cool and all but seriously. why that body?

then i saw some videos..... this thing seems to be very poorly designed or maybe it was just the setup in the video.

it has old school non-oiled filled shocks (like older tamiyas) and has about 60 degrees of wheel play (left to right) on the passenger side front.

look at this [link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NohcWDmVf9I]video[/link]


r/c on the cheap, thanks HPI

sheograth

Seems like a decent entry level RC, nothing special. FWD can be fun, though Tamiyas offerings seem better.

I don't mind the body, it's sorta cute [&:]

Druss

girls like rc too.... don't they?

rebuilder

I like it! Looks cool, and i bet it hauls ***** with that big 540...... wow, in a 8.5 inch wheelbase car. The front wheel drive would be fun to have a go at too. Imagine sticking a 4000 nimh in it with a Co27!!!!!!

samguan

wait. so if you reverse the throttle, it's going to become a rwd?

Snipin_Willy

I lol'd at that video. *** is up with that gimp steering!

The_Collector

It becomes an egg-shaped forklift.

gelbschnee

that video was so funny...the Nintendo part. great stuff. That steering is very poor though.

iexion

Just an FYI for everyone, this car has been out in china months ago. Im guessing Hpi had just decided to release it in the US... for some reason. If they had a CRX body or just some sort of civic hatch body this might be worth a looking.

quietnas1

It seems ok. The video was a trip though. I'm pretty sure some Aluminum steering links will clean up some of the horrible slop it has.

schmacher

i'm going to pick one of these up..if you goto www.rcmart.com under the car manufactures section,under xpress..they have some cool bodies like a mcclaren

dsales

It doesn't really seem like a hobby grade RC. I think they are just opening up their market to younger and younger people.
Basically it could do really well as a birthday/christmas present for a little kid.
The plastics on it seem really thick so a kid can smack it about without breaking anything and it requires no maintenence really...

supertib

that is a hilarious video !!!!!

hpidriver94

they werent thinking

mazdaprotege4

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I think it would look cool with a few different VW bodies or a 5th gen civic hb like mentioned before.

i8tweety

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There are an absolute ton of tracks that have a tamiya mini class. I've raced in this class for years. It looks to me like HPI has finally decided to build a car that some tracks will allow to race in the tamiya mini class (just like many slash classes allow other manufacturers now).

Personally, I like the idea.

mini-dude

maybe they were going for the "Butt-Ugly Car of the Year" award from the RCmagazines..............

iexion

Aside from when somethings goes lose or breaks, Ive never really driven a FWD RC cars. Would be nice to try it out tho

9five9

contrary to popular belief, fwd can be pretty fun, especially if scale realism is what you're into. I smoked the rear diff on my TT-01 one time and kept on driving it with fwd only. the back end on a 4wd touring car is going to be too heavy in the back to have any real fun with though. It was difficult for the front tires to drag the rest of the car around. But these little hpi's look like the weight is distributed pretty well to make it more realistic. You could make a sweet 2wd rally car out of it.

Kitsune

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What were they thinking? Just that they could grab a piece of the market that Tamiya's M03 chassis has. Not a bad idea if you ask me.

lee172

Not much of a piece of the market.. that amount of slop is beyond a joke [X(]

9five9

wouldn't take much to fix that