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Recently we received one of Maverick’s new Strada DT desert trucks for review. Much like the Strada RX that we unboxed a few days ago, the DT version comes as a ready to run with a powerful brushless power system. The Strada DT was designed to look like a hardcore off-road rig, in person, it certainly looks the part. While we [...]
Remember Maverick RC? We sure do, they are HPI Racing’s basher line-up in Europe. The Maverick line-up is still new to folks here in the states, but HPI hopes to change all that in 2018. Expect to see HPI, and their various North American distributors, making a big push on the Maverick line-up in the coming year. Recently we received one [...]
While on-road in general has been a bit slow lately, there are cars being released to help boost the segment. A great example of that is the HPI Racing Ken Block ’65 Ford Mustang Hoonicorn. The Hoonicorn is an absolute beast in the full scale world, best known for the crazy videos that it was driven in by rally car [...]
We are finally done, and the 1.9 Scale Crawler Shootout is ready for your reading enjoyment. The vehicles that participated in the shootout are the Vaterra Ascender, Traxxas TRX-4, RC4WD Trail Finder 2, Redcat Everest Gen7, Axial SCX-10, and HPI Venture. We have posted up reviews of all these vehicles and they have all proven to be awesome trucks, but [...]
Bashing means different things to different people. To some it might mean running around the backyard, to others it means a trip to the nearest empty parking lot. However, the folks at HPI Racing like to go big when they bash, so they have worked up a new video called “RC Cars Vs Paintballers“. With so many people into both [...]
The folks at HPI Racing recently posted a video titled RC Drift Club. As you can see in the video we have attached below, rc drifting can be loads of fun, plus the video gives you a good view of the HPI Sport 3 Vaughn Gittin Jr FunHaver and the Sport 3 Ford Mustang Spec 5. Both of the new [...]
First announced back in early ’16, the HPI Racing Ken Block ’65 Ford Mustang Hoonicorn RTR is close to shipping. Estimates right now put it at a January release and we can not wait to get our hands on one. The Hoonicorn is an outrageous car in person, the HPI version is bound to be awesome as well. On the outside [...]
Whoa, now here is some big news, HPI Racing has just announced new distribution channels for the North American market. The new HPI distributors in North America include HRP Distributing, along with Hi-Performance Distribution (for Canada), and Swift Distributing. Here is the official press release- “HPI Racing Welcomes New North American Distributors Today, we are pleased to announce new partnerships with four [...]
With the new Venture FJ getting ready to take over trails across the globe, HPI has released another video showing off its off-road capabilities. This time the HPI crew, including our buddy HPI Frank, took off on a mountain to show off what the Venture can do in extremely harsh conditions. The video shows the Venture doing some serious trailing, [...]
With the final release of the Venture FJ Cruiser nearly here, HPI Racing has posted a new action video. The video below shows the FJ cruising over a bunch of different terrain. From snow, to rock, to sandy beaches, the Venture FJ Cruiser is more than ready to tackle your next scale adventure. If you would like to see [...]
Recently uploaded by HPI Racing is a video featuring their cars making fine art. That’s right, artist Ian Cook at PopBangColour has been using various types of HPI cars to do all sorts of incredibly paintings. In fact, Ian exclusively uses model cars to make his artwork. HPI had Ian do a new piece of art for them and it turned [...]
Recently posted by HPI Racing is a video featuring a race between a Falken Sport 3 Flux and a bicycle rider. The Sport 3 Flux was stock, while the bike rider was Peter Dumbreck, a racer for the Falken Tire full sized endurance racing team. The video shown above is a teaser. It shows them getting ready and some of the [...]
With the resurgence of HPI Racing going on full force, we were stoked to get the chance to review their upcoming Formula Q32. The Q32 is very small in stature, but promises loads of fun. It comes with an extremely wallet friendly price, plus has a 2.4GHz radio system and HPI’s Real Steer system for better control. How does the [...]
1/5th scale drivers can now rejoice as the HPI Racing Kraken Buggies are now shipping. That’s right, these are now available across the globe for your bashing enjoyment. Each of the buggies are street priced at $1349 and both come with Kraken upgrades to make them stand out in a crowd. The Baja 5B TSK-b Class 1 comes with a gnarly [...]
Newly updated for 2017 is the Maverick Scout RTR Rock Crawler. The Scout sports 2.2″ wheels and comes as an RTR with a 2.4GHz radio system. The updated version is expected to start shipping in late July and here are some of its changes from the previous model- * New anodizing on aluminum parts * New paint scheme and packaging * Water resistant [...]
