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Right now, one of the hottest trucks being talked about is the HPI Mini Trophy Truck that we have been talking about. Well now there is a teaser video up. The video is so short, if you blink you’ll miss it, so I have this screen grab incase you blink!Check out the HPI web site for more info.
Holy cow! Cubby does some work! The RC Reviews section was just updated with the HPI Racing Blitz ESE Review by our own Cub Reporter! You don’t want to miss this one! Click the images or here for the review!
Another “big” race was held last week. I know, I know, there is seemingly a “big” race every week, but the IFMAR world championships for 12th scale and 10th touring car are only held every two years, and they went down last week in Germany. I bring this up for two reasons- one being that I bet you didn’t [...]
Holy Cow! Two unboxing stories in the same week! People around the office are bouncing off the walls with all the vehicles we have to review soon! I Love it! So we recently talked about the new HPI Racing E-Firestorm 10 HT being a Hobby Town (hence the HT) exclusive! Thanks to our local Hobby Town, we have one in [...]
HPI Racing is finally releasing some real imagery of their new 1/12 scale desert racer, the Mini-Trophy. As we reported last week, the Mini-Trophy has been designed in conjunction with full scale racing team TSA Motorsports. Now that we have some real pics of it we can see some of the crazy detail that HPI has pumped into this all [...]
Tower Hobbies has slashed the price of the HPI Crawler King by more than 50%. It’s on sale for $119.98, which is more than $125 off their normal price. This is an insane deal and the Crawler King is an awesome truck. Be sure to take advantage of this deal while you can. The Crawler King is a fully ready to run [...]
Check out this new truck from HPI Racing and TSA Motorsports. The HPI Mini-Trophy Truck is an all new RTR 1/12 scale, 4wd, Desert Truck that was designed in conjuction with TSA Motorsports as they built the full scale version to be raced in the 7200 class of the SNORE desert racing series. There’s not much info available [...]
Need some new LiPos? HPI has a new line for ya. The HPI Plazma LiPo line comes in three flavors, an 11.1V 3800 mAh, a 7.4v 4000 mAh with round case, and a 7.4v 5300 mAh. If you have a HPI vehicle then one of these packs will likely fit in it without problems. All of the packs have Deans [...]
Here is a interesting new release from HPI. It looks like they have teamed up with HobbyTown USA to put out a EXCLUSIVE RTR E-Firestorm 10 HT truck! The HT standing for HobbyTown. It looks to have all the same stuff that makes up the normal E-Firestorm except it’s RTR with the inclusion of their new HPI Plazma batteries, [...]
Here’s another new (kinda) body from HPI. Made specifically for their Cup Racer chassis the Honda Civic Type R body is a renewed release featuring all new vinyl decals and revised tooling to make it fit the Cup Racers and other chassis out there with 225mm wheelbases. Also new are front and rear light buckets to make it quick and [...]
Hard Body’sz USA has a cool new aftermarket part for the HPI Blitz. Their new full roll cage not only adds to the realistic looks of HPI’s popular short course truck, but should probably add to the overall strength and durability of the Blitz. It’s available in in chrome and flat black for a list price of $77.99 through TGN Distributing. [...]
Check out this new, officially licensed, Saleen Parnelli Jones Edition Ford Mustang body from HPI Racing. It’s made for 200mm sedans but can be used on 190s with the addition of wide offset wheels. All the various common things are included: window masks, decals, overspray film, etc. A molded nylon wing is also included and it comes clear so you [...]
Baja Skunkworks (you know, those guys responsible for that crazy Baja 5T tank… yeah, you remember) have put together what could possibly be a must have accessory for 5B and 5T owners. Their new 2 speed transmission has been in development for 3 years now and they say it has features that competitors don’t. One of the bigger bullet points [...]
There’s a lot of news coming out of the HPI camp today, but probably the biggest of it all is a new and less expensive version of the Savage Flux! The new Savage Flux 2350 is still built on the same awesomely awesome Savage X chassis that the Flux HP is built on, and it still shares many of the [...]
In the ‘better late than never’ category, we finally got our hands on the HPI Blitz ESE! Many of us in the office are huge fans of the original HPI Blitz, so we have been looking forward to this for a while. Whenever I see the UPS guy walking in the door [...]
