2wd or 4wd What does everyone prefer?

[Richard]

Just having a think after reading the many threads about 1/18 and 1/8 scale
trucks and just wondering what every prefers to drive/race/bash?

I personally love my 2wd vehicles, they create a challenge you just don't
get in a 4wd vehicle, keeping it in a straight line.

On the other hand with the power of the 1/8 nitro trucks these days I would
find a 2wd version impossible to drive, but I still prefer a 2wd.

Wouldn't mind seeing a list of all the vehicles everyone is running, or
keeping as a shelf queen or just hanging onto so that one day you can sell
it for 1000 bucks on eBay.

Savage 46
Tmaxx
Emaxx
Stampede
Clod Crawler
Mini T
Tamiya TB03 drift car
Tamiya M03L Mini
S2000 Bit CharG
Yokomo YZ10 Dogfighter
Tamiya Blackfoot
Tamiya Fox
Associated 12L
And 3 planes


Cheers
Richard

[QUAKEnSHAKE]

Vehicle I still own-
RC10
RC10L
Blackfoot
XTM X-terminator
Nitro Quake
Losi M-LST ,ur Shelf-Joker

I like 4wd nitro trucks the most. I think to enjoy electric now I will
have to go BL-Lipo cause regular electric just dont do the trick. Then I
would need all new stuff to run that so why bother. I would still need
to charge batts which I dont care to do.
Funny though the M-LST is my most recent purchase. I have had more
problems with it than I think a vehicle should so it has become a
shelfqueen well, not even that, a joke more or less. I will keep it
mostly for my kid to play with.
My most durable has actually been my Quake of all things. Its been my
main vehicle the last 5 years. Its been jumped 10 feet high literally
hundreds of times, cart-wheeled countless times, hit headon into mailbox
post once and all I ever break are the damn body posts. The only other
part that actually broke, in a crash, was a knuckle that happened just
last Oct. I clipped the mailbox post. There is less slop now in my quake
than my new m-lst.

[Jonathan Hodgson]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:42:12 +0800, Richard wrote:

> Just having a think after reading the many threads about 1/18 and 1/8 scale
> trucks and just wondering what every prefers to drive/race/bash?
<snip>
> Wouldn't mind seeing a list of all the vehicles everyone is running, or
> keeping as a shelf queen or just hanging onto so that one day you can sell
> it for 1000 bucks on eBay.

I race 4WD electric off-road, currently with a Yokomo MR4-BCS; and I've
got a Predator mongrel which is currently retired, but with a view to
getting it out again one day and running it.

I love the close racing you can get with 4WD, and I love the control you
can still have on a slippery astroturf track in the winter, or a wet
grass track in the summer.

I also have a 2WD circuit car, an Associated RC10L3 Touring, which is a
completely different challenge but also great fun. That doesn't see
much action at the moment, as 1/10th pan cars are a dead class over
here, but I'm in the process of getting a new body sorted for it (HPI
NSX GT) after which I intend to make sure it gets used again!

Jonny

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"Simon"
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>> Well it can't be forsale yet, because it's at home and I'm at Uni, but
> I'll
>> bear you in mind when the time comes :)
>>
>>
> Thanks. :)
>
>

Why would you possibly want it after he has stated how much he utterly hates
it?

I'll sell you my Mini-LST cheap! Bwahahahaha!

Doc

[Simon]

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> >> Well it can't be forsale yet, because it's at home and I'm at Uni, but
> > I'll
> >> bear you in mind when the time comes :)
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks. :)
> >
> >
>
> Why would you possibly want it after he has stated how much he utterly
hates
> it?
>
Well it all comes down to the price if I buy it or not. Does he hate it
because he's used to a sav?

[Simon]

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> Team Losi Mini-LST-->currently for sale on e-bay. I HATE it.
>
Whats the bay item number?

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>> Team Losi Mini-LST-->currently for sale on e-bay. I HATE it.
>>
> Whats the bay item number?

6040645914

[sonofabitchsky@hotmail.com]

Richard wrote:
> Just having a think after reading the many threads about 1/18 and 1/8 scale
> trucks and just wondering what every prefers to drive/race/bash?
>
> I personally love my 2wd vehicles, they create a challenge you just don't
> get in a 4wd vehicle, keeping it in a straight line.
>
> On the other hand with the power of the 1/8 nitro trucks these days I would
> find a 2wd version impossible to drive, but I still prefer a 2wd.
>
> Wouldn't mind seeing a list of all the vehicles everyone is running, or
> keeping as a shelf queen or just hanging onto so that one day you can sell
> it for 1000 bucks on eBay.
>
> Savage 46
> Tmaxx
> Emaxx
> Stampede
> Clod Crawler
> Mini T
> Tamiya TB03 drift car
> Tamiya M03L Mini
> S2000 Bit CharG
> Yokomo YZ10 Dogfighter
> Tamiya Blackfoot
> Tamiya Fox
> Associated 12L
> And 3 planes
>
>
> Cheers
> Richard

WIth my limited expirience, 1/8th - 1/10 Nitro monster trucks need 4wd.
1/10 electric trucks are fun with 2wd, IMO. Takes a skilled hand to
keep a brushless 1/10 truck on track in the dirt.