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Here’s a quick shot we got on the sly of what appears to be a Ken Block inspired Traxxas 1/16 Rally VXL. There was nothing official being talked about this car, but the grapevine tells us that this is going to be an officially licensed product with all the details of pro full scale Rally driver Ken Block’s ride. [...]
A bit of smaller big news from the Traxxas booth is the new 1/16 Summit VXL. This little bad boy is based on the Mini E-Revo platform and is setup for 1 or 2 battery operation. As with all Traxxas cars it’s fully RTR and comes with a single 7-cell battery. According to the guys at Traxxas it’s ready to [...]
Traxxas is showing off a lot of new stuff at IHobby this year, the new Stampede 4×4 VXL is probably the biggest news so far. It’s an all new chassis and built for power with a brushless VXL system already installed. A 7-cell NiMH will be included and as with all VXL stuff it will be LiPo ready. We got the [...]
Looks like Traxxas will have the Stampede 4×4 at iHobby Expo 2010! You know the bashers will eat this one up! We’ll have plenty of pictures up in the morning, so make sure to check back! Visit the Traxxas site for details soon. For all our show coverage click the iHobby Expo 2010 category.
Hello good people of the rc world, and welcome to yet another vitriolic edition of your favorite weekly rc column…. So, one of the guys in the ROAR camp sent me another scathing email, which I thought was quite odd as Cubby’s Wheel Of Doom hasn’t landed on ROAR for weeks (a wheel I spin to determine who I’m flip’n out [...]
Just a reminder, if you didn’t get a chance to catch the Traxxas TORC series live and in person you can catch them on HD Theater! Tune in every Thursday night for some racing action! It’s like watching your Slash on TV! Need more info? Visit the Traxxas site for details!
Didn’t see this one coming! Traxxas just announced their new 1/16 Rally VXL! The Rally VXL is based on the 1/16 scale Revo technology and is designed for some serious Gymkhana racing. Keeping up with their standard, it’s completely waterproof, Velineon Brushless powered, 4WD, Comes with the TQ 2.4Ghz radio system, and is ready for some serious 3S LiPo [...]
Wow! Traxxas again is doing an amazing job of getting the word out there about RC! Traxxas, along with Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart, and Jeff Gordon, were all on NASCAR Now on ESPN doing a little Slash racing! The trucks were all custom painted to look like the drivers vehicles, and they all look pretty good. Stewart went on [...]
Didn’t get a chance to make it out to any of the Traxxas TORC series races? Well now you can catch them on HD Theater! Tune in every Thursday night for some racing action! Need more info? Visit the Traxxas site for details!
More and more people are releasing hop-up parts for the Traxxas Slash 4×4 which is making me think it’s really starting to catch on! New from Venom are a ton of cool Aluminum Hop-Up parts for the Traxxas Slash 4WD! They also have Steel Universal joint shafts from front and rear! (seen on top) Here’s a list of what [...]
This week Bill and I headed to the Traxxas TORC Series race. I’d like to take a moment and thank Peter Vieira and Damron Atkins from Traxxas for helping make this happen. They did an amazing job of helping us out and getting us hooked up with a little VIP action for the event! Hey Traxxas, you’re doing [...]
So we just got back from the Traxxas TORC series race. (report coming about that soon with pics) But there was some hubub about this Traxxas NASCAR Camping World Truck. Well, official word is that Traxxas is currently NOT planning on making this vehicle. It was a mock-up done to sort of show off and celebrate their crossover with Kyle [...]
Word from Traxxas is that NASCAR Star Kyle Busch will be racing at the Traxxas Torc Series in the Pro 2WD Class and hist first race will be next week at the Route 66 Raceway in Joliet Il! This is pretty big news for the Torc Series! Members of Big Squid RC will be on hand checking out all the action, [...]
It’s Thursday again already? Oh my does time fly around this joint….. ========== Cub Reporter When is Losi going to put out something decent for a change? Hot D*ck Willy Cubby– Great question, I think? Ok, everybody knows Losi isn’t really “Losi” anymore. So to properly re-word your question, it would be “When is Horizon going to put out something decent again under Losi badging?”. Well, [...]
So why is this the Van Halen Unchained version of THE Cub Report? Well it’s that way (unchained) every week really, fortunately for me I can talk about whatever I like, something you won’t find on the print mags sites. Well, that and I like planting catchy tunes into peoples brains. Lucky this isn’t the Dexys Midnight Runners- Come On [...]
