2WD RC Car – Do You Really Need 4WD for Backyard Driving? As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. I used to think 4WD was almost always the better choice for an RC car. More wheels getting power should mean more traction, right? Then I started driving on the same kind of grass, … Read more
Best Entry-Level RC Cars As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Walk into any hobby shop and you’ll notice something strange. A forty-dollar RC car and a two-hundred-dollar RC car can look almost identical sitting on the shelf. Same size, same rugged tires, same “ready to run” sticker slapped on the box. From … Read more
Brushless RC Cars-What I Wish I Knew As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. The first time I ran a brushless RC car in our driveway, my daughter clapped her hands over her ears before it even left the driveway, and I remember thinking this thing sounds like it’s about to take off. … Read more
Arrma Typhon Review – Is It Really Worth It? As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. My six year old daughter named this thing “the blue rocket” before I even had it fully charged. That should tell you something about how this review is going to go. I bought the Arrma Typhon expecting … Read more
Buggy vs Truggy RC Car: Which One Actually Wins Backyard Battles? As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. My six year old daughter picked our first RC buggy off the shelf because she liked the color, and honestly that turned out to be a pretty rough way to shop for RC cars. A … Read more
Best 4WD RC Cars That Actually Survive My Backyard As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Three years ago I bought my daughter what I thought was a toy. It was not a toy. It was the start of a garage full of spare tires, a drawer of stripped screws, and more opinions … Read more
My six-year-old daughter picked out our first RC car at the store, a bright orange truck that looked like it could climb a mountain. It could not. Within a week I had fried a battery, snapped a steering link, and learned more about this hobby the hard way than I ever wanted to. If you … Read more
Losi Mini B Review – Tiny Truck, Huge Grins. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I picked up a Losi Mini B mostly on a whim, expecting it to sit in a closet after a week like half my other impulse buys. That did not happen. A few months and a stack … Read more
I fried my first RC car in about four minutes flat. It was a light drizzle, barely enough to need an umbrella, and by the time I got the thing back inside, the receiver was already smoking. That one mistake sent me down a rabbit hole of researching what “waterproof” actually means on an RC … Read more
I still remember standing in my garage with a half-charged battery, a controller I did not fully understand, and a car that kept veering hard left no matter what I did. Looking back, nobody ever handed me a real RC car for beginners guide, so I just figured it out the expensive way. If you … Read more