| The world of radio controlled cars is a very fun and | | | | model, whether you want to use it off-road, on a track |
| intoxicating hobby. Firstly you can choose between | | | | or on both surfaces. |
| electric, nitro or petrol RC cars, they are fully | | | | Due to improving engineering and technology, these |
| customisable and tunable, offer great speed and most | | | | awesome RC cars have good top end speeds, lots of |
| of all a lot of fun! However, in this article I am going to | | | | power and are very tough and durable. They are |
| look at an ever popular area of radio controlled cars 1 | | | | much more durable than their smaller nitro RC car |
| 5 scale petrol RC cars! | | | | cousins because the engines are not so stressed and |
| These model cars are much bigger than normal RC | | | | they run on unleaded petrol as opposed to nitro fuel. |
| cars and are powered with 23cc to 30cc 2 stroke | | | | You have a wide choice of makes of petrol rc cars |
| petrol engines. These engines run on normal unleaded | | | | out there from HPI's Baja buggy to XRC's XRC1 |
| petrol and require 2 stroke engine oil to be mixed into | | | | reack car to ShengQi's awesome hummer monster |
| the petrol before filling up the model to keep the engine | | | | truck! Prices can also vary wildly with the top branded |
| fully lubricated. | | | | HPI baja buggy selling for almost £1,000 but |
| You can buy these radio controlled cars in various | | | | XRC's XRC1 track car only costing around |
| guises from buggies, monster trucks to track cars. It | | | | £300. |
| really does depend what you are looking for in a | | | | |