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Pro-Line, always at the forefront of forming polycarbonate, has a new way for you to add some awesome detail to your short course truck. Their new Pro-Driver SC Interior adds a good looking cockpit and driver to most any short course truck on the market, you might need to trim a little here and there to get a good fit [...]
Pro-Line has added a couple new tires to their vast collection. The Slicer SC reaches back to those heady days of stadium trucks and their ribbed front tires. Featuring six ribs across the width of the tire, Pro-Line claims that the Slicer SC offers the best steering performance on all types of track conditions. Each pack comes with reusable, closed-cell [...]
Axial‘s flagship crawler, the XR10, is a tough truck. But even the toughest trucks can be improved, and Axial is aware of that. There’s now a bunch of new options to further bullet-proof your ride. Axial promises that their new lightweight, CNC machined gears will not only be more durable, but also more efficient, the complete set will reduce the [...]
Here’s a couple new names for you, dBoots and dRadioControl. What do these names mean you say? Well dRadioControl is the company, and dBoots is their new line of tires. Their first tire out of the mold is the Terrabyte, a pyramid style lugged tire made for 1/10 scale 2wd and 4wd buggies. According go the dRC guys this is [...]
Have you ever wanted to be a beta tester? It’s not as fun as you may think, trust me, I know. But here’s an opportunity from Pro-Line with their new Pro-Core tire tech. According to Pro-Line this technology is so new that it is still under development by our R&D department. They are releasing a new version of their recently [...]
Here’s something cool from Pro-Line. A Volkswagen Bug body that actually has fenders on it. How novel. It actually casts a much different attitude than all the fenderless beetle bodies that populate the alternative-style short course landscape. This new vision of an old body is officially licensed by Volkswagen, so you can expect all the decals necessary to replicate the [...]
GH Racing has a set of awesome looking new beadlock wheels for 1.9″ class crawlers. The JigSaws have a very hefty HMMWV style. They’re 3 piece wheels that have been machined out of aluminum and black anodized for a durable finish. MSRP for the JigSaw wheels is going to be $49.99 for a pair. They’ll be available from the Golden Horizon [...]
The first and, thus-far, only recipient of the Basher Approved Lifetime Achievement Award, RPM, has some new products for lovers of the Traxxas Slash 4×4. These shock towers for the front and rear are drop-in replacements for the stock parts but are much, much stronger thanks to that lovely RPM material that we all adore. These pieces will retail [...]
NOSRAM, a company that has been in the game pretty much since the game started, has a couple new brushless ESC and motor combos. Based on their Pearl ISTC V2 ESC, the combos come packed with either a 5.5T or 6.5T Pure Evolution brushless motor (not the 3.5T that’s in the picture). The team at NOSRAM suggests the 6.5T for [...]
Novak‘s Havoc Pro SC is now available in a combo with the Ballistic 540 size brushless motors. Previously it had only been available with the larger 550 size motor. This new combo gives you a greater selection of windings, 8.5T/5000 kv, 13.5T/3300kv, and 17.5T/2200kv. The 550 size 4.5T combo is also still available and ideally suited for the new 4wd [...]
Here’s some video of RC4WD‘s recently announced solid axle conversion chassis, the Hardcore, in action. The Hardcore chassis conversion takes the Traxxas Slash to the next level of realism, with a full on 4-link rear suspension holding on a solid rear axle, just like the full scale short course trucks run. Check the video and then hit [...]
O.S. is ready to put another engine on the shelf for you to buy. The .21 XZ-B Speed has all kinds of new features on it. The fuel efficiency of this engine has been improved by 8% over the non-speed version .21 XZ-B. The cylinder head had been made 9mm shorter than the .21VZ-B Speed, the center of gravity has [...]
Rogue Elements Components is turning on the machine and cranking out some limited run pieces for the Venom GPV-1 motorcycle. This piece is a new rear sprocket that replaces the original which is known for being less durable than is expected. REC’s new piece is machined out of 6061-T6 aircraft aluminum, and the teeth and hex are machined at the [...]
Another release of the Pro-Line Bulldog cab-forward body, this time for the Team Associated B44.1. The body will come from the factory with decals, window masks, overspray, and a new wing. You need to provide the paint and artistic skills to not make it look like crap. It should be hitting your local hobby shop shelves “soon” and at a [...]
IHobby may be over, but we still have quite a bit of news and photos to share from the show. Pro-Line had a ton of new products this year and we got to most of them, here’s one we didn’t. This new wheels, called the Renegade, is going to be releasing some time soon. It’ll be available in an offset [...]
