RIAARIO 1 10 Brushless RC Cars Monster Truck 50 MPH 4WD Waterproof Carbon Fiber Black Ages 8

I have about 40 RC vehicles and drones. As far as trucks go, this is one of the best RC trucks to have. Taking the relatively low price into consideration (sub 300), it is amazing in quality and durability. I have two of them. Haven't broken a thing after running MANY packs through them. And it's capability is awesome. Strong enough motor that it can self-right (with a bit of practice), the ESC is plenty for this car, and incredibly for an RTR the servo is crazy good - so responsive. Almost too responsive; turning the steering rate down will help keep it planted during hard turns. It is plenty fast, and with some gearing can be even faster. But the thing that "WOW'd" me the most was the suspension. It's insanely good. RLARRLO commonly does well with suspension, but this truck really set a standard that I have yet to see in an RTR car close to this price range. Gyro works well and is adjustable, and it has everything you could really want in a hobby grade RC of this size. And that would be my 1 of my 2 only real desires for this thing; I do wish it was a little bigger, and I wish it could hold a larger battery without modification (it's a simple mod, though). It is def not on industry standard for a 1/10 scale, and a little big for a 1/12 scale. So if there was such a thing as 1/11 scale, it probably sits most comfortably there. But if all you have is 1/12 and below, this thing will be a slight step up in scale and probably outperform them all. If you're used to 1/10, this is probably the "smaller" guy you'll love without going into the mini/grom 1/14 scalish stuff. Put a good battery in this thing, learn how to dial in the settings on the controller based on how you want to drive it, and you will NOT be disappointed with it. Read more

I bought this carbon version (for me) and the non carbon version (for a child). These things are amazing. Fast, well built, remote/car connectivity is flawless. Out kids (only 8) controls the care really (we set it as 50-75% of max speed. The only issue I have with them, is that after 4 runs, the rear shocks become saggy. I.e. they don't bounce back. Front shocks are fine. I found a solution to this and posting here to help other (who like me are not necessarily experts with RC trucks), if you adjust the read shocks so that the springs are compressed to the max settings, the shocks bounce back well enough, compared to almost not at all in the out of the box configuration. With that in mind, I'm going to assume the issue is not necesarily with the shocks, but more so with springs that are not 'strong' enough. Maybe someone here can make a recommendation on possibly upgrading just the springs? Otherwise, these trucks are a ton of fun and are very well built. Read more

The media could not be loaded. This is definitely one of the better or best RC cars you can buy for the $250 price range comes with a great brushless system aluminum parts, some carbon fiber parts that is more of just a gimmick and looks than anything but still cool to have. It’s pretty dang fast and it’s very durable. I’ve crashed this thing so many times pretty hard, backflip it off trees and only minor damage. Nothing serious. I highly recommend it. The only thing is I don’t like about it are the cables going from the motor to the ESC are pretty short and tightly crammed and it looks like it’s putting a lot of stress on the wiring, and the body is pretty thin and not the most durable, and the driver system is kind of useless for this truck. It doesn’t work very well and almost makes the car unusable but for a basher you don’t need that anyways, the transmitter can be kinda hard to figure out it first but once you get it down, it’s a really nice transmitter. For 250 bucks you got everything you need great parts and brushless system great transmitter and comes with a 3S battery so 4.8 stars for me! Read more

Cannot be beat for the money. Fantastic chassis with a really strong drivetrain, diffs and motor. It handles like a on road race car that you can send to the moon!!!! Even the stock wheels/tires are very very nice. Soft enough to grip but firm enough not to wear out after 3 packs. The only thing I don't like is the ESC. Its completely non adjustable and the factory brake setting is WAY too high. Hit the brakes at anything close to fast and watch it front flip down the p-lot. Also the "Electric Turbo" button is really just increasing the punch level. I think they did it like this to try to get a little more run time out of the ridiculously small battery. Figure on about 10 minutes of run time if you go like I do but you don't buy these to putt around!!!! You can re-locate the esc to increase the length of the battery tray but I think that should have been done on assembly of the truck. Also the C-rating of the included battery is definitely not accurate. It's more like 15C. The Gyro works very good. You can drift this sucker all day (or ten minutes at a time). Once you sort how the transmitter works you'll find it to be a very very good one with a ton of range and good response time. The shocks are very plush and work well. Put some 70wt oil in them and they work even better. I'm going to replace the ESC with a BL120 so I can tune it better (brakes) and run 4S. Just moving the stock ESC and fitting a good 5200 MAH 3 cell with at least a 50C rating really wakes this thing up. Bottom line is that for less than $250 bucks you cannot get anything that comes remotely close to this. Just fit a bigger better battery and you'll see why the wheelie bar becomes necessary. I didn't use the bigger pinion yet because after using a better battery I don't think I need to. Lastly, the stock steering servo is good but not great. It's a small size so to fit a normal size one you have to get a conversion kit/bracket from rlaarlo. I'm going to do that mod as well because this chassis is just too good not to have a super fast brushless servo. A fast servo is the single best modification you can make to any r/c car. It COMPLETELY changes how it drives. I use power hobby brushless low profile servos (45kg) and I love them. Plus they fit nice in tight areas. HW makes a nice brushless servo as well. Overall I'm quite impressed with the design and execution of this r/c. Just ditch the lame batt for a bigger mah higher c-rating one and you'll be super pleased with the performance. Update: I put in the speed pinion. Made it even better!!! Now it really has a good too speed and better air control. That's why the brakes are so sharp. It's for control in the air. Learn something new every day. Read more