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offbeat news

Hummer H3 R/C Car, Just Because They Could

Hummer UK have converted this H3 to remote control. Intended for off road use only, it can traverse 16-inch vertical walls, 40% side slopes and two feet of water, all while you stay level and dry, presumably from the comfort of a lawn chair.

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12:15 PM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Wes Siler
988 views, 17 comments

commenter of the day

Commenter Of The Day: Tanks For The Memories Edition

None of us want to ever complain about our jobs as, we're sure, there are tens of thousands of people out there that would take them in a second. So that being said, please allow us a quick moment of professional discontent as we envy Ben and his Dukakis moment. While we're out tooling around in Yukon Denalis, Foresters and STii, The KILLWOJDYLER (thanks elhigh) is reviewing a freaking R/C Tank. There were lots of great comments today, but if you think we're going to give them all play again you're crazy. More »

5:45 PM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Matt Hardigree
713 views, 11 comments

Latest by Elhigh: Graverobber must die. Press the button! more »

question of the day

What's The Best Model Car You've Ever Built?

Those without children but with normal adult lives may be unaware that we've reached LEGO's 50th Anniversary. And while we're not moved by the Speed Racer Legos, we remember back in our day creating some monster brick rides complete with jet engines, millions of lights, dozens of wheels and Road Warrior-esque weaponry. We also remember making a few sincere attempts at scale modeling, though with results we were never happy with. More »

11:45 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,973 views, 143 comments

novelties

Rich? Lazy? The Remote-Controlled Golf Caddie is For You

How do you know when you've given up on life? You consider buying an r/c caddie for carrying your golf bags. While it may be good for those who are too cheap to get a golf cart or too old to carry heavy objects, this thing is just five kinds of ridiculous. That being said, at $2,000 perhaps this isn't an unnecessary golfing accessory. Perhaps it's a cheaper Segway? Remote-Controlled Keg? What would you do with this compact, off-roading R/C car? [Stewart Golf via Oobject]

2:15 PM on Wed Dec 12 2007
By Matt Hardigree
514 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: It is not a function of being lazy or rich. Walking a golf course is a valuable part of the experience and, for some, carrying clubs detracts from that experience. Hell, at least the people are walking. more »

holiday gift guide

Holiday Gift Guide: Hydrogen Power Kit for your R/C Car


We're hoping to appeal to both the weekend R/C racers and the alternafuel fans on the site with this choice. Horizon Fuel Cell technologies offers a hydrogen fuel cell power supply for your R/C car that incorporates on board hydrogen fuel canisters! Even better, the kit is designed to fit in the battery compartment of the venerable Tamiya TT-01 chassis. This means we can live the dream of owning a hydrogen-powered Ford Escort Cosworth Rally Car. The kit promises top speed near 20 mph, quick acceleration and charges that last nearly an hour. It's a significant cost savings over the $600 monthly lease for the Clarity FCX. Product information below the jump: More »

1:45 PM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Matt Hardigree
2,354 views, 13 comments

Latest by Turboner: Why don't they use a hydrogen powered KITT for the next Knight Rider? more »

novelties

The Smart Eyes Robot Spycam is Watching You

Who hasn't thought of pairing an off-the-shelf R/C Focus Rally Car with a camera phone? Designed for surveillance purposes, the R/C car uses a camera phone hooked up to the on-board electronics, allowing the user to pilot the vehicle from their very own phone. With this setup you could see what's going on in your neighborhood from the comfort of a cafe in Vienna. Or the other way around. More »

3:00 PM on Wed Nov 28 2007
By Matt Hardigree
735 views, 4 comments

holiday gift guide

Jalopnik Holiday Gift Guide: XMODS R/C Race Cars

If you're in the market for a small R/C car for you or someone you love, but you're not really willing to make the $200 investment in one of the larger gas-powered setups, we can easily recommend the XMODS R/C series from RadioShack. Powered by small electric motors, these kits come in under $30.00 and are exceptionally customizable. More »

2:30 PM on Tue Nov 27 2007
By Matt Hardigree
1,738 views, 20 comments

holiday gift guide

Jalopnik Holiday Gift Guide: Hoonage Now Available in RC Form

If you love Rock'em Sock'em Robots and R/C cars, we've got the product for you: Stock Cars. It may be a boring and non-descriptive name, but these awesome little remote-controlled cars come complete with four passengers connected to ejection buttons within the doors. The first person to eject all of their opponents passengers wins! It's like real stock car racing, except the passengers can't throw their helmets at you after ejection. Details below the jump: More »

2:30 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Matt Hardigree
663 views, 9 comments

Latest by Stoatmaster: I would very much like to see this livery on a LeMons entry. Including the door panel buttons, natch. more »

float like a butterfly, leap like a frog

Radio Controlled House Leap



R/C cars are wonderful implements of mayhem when used correctly (The Dead Pool, anyone?) These nutters put a launch ramp together to see if they could get a car to clear a house. We do, however, worry about the sanity of the rooftop camera man. Good job not getting whackarooed by a nitro-powered, buzzing projectile. [via Fast RC]

5:45 PM on Wed Aug 1 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
551 views, 6 comments

they're making glass on the desert

Vintage Tamiya Lust, Sated

Somewhere around 1986, we got the bug to have a badass R/C car of our own. We scrimped. We saved. We scrounged, and we didn't buy an RC/10. Or an Optima. Somehow, we believed that the Tamiya Fox was obviously the coolest R/C money could buy, thus dooming us to a life of fetishizing Citroëns and Mantas. Regardless, that car frankly was pretty awesome to an eleven-year-old boy; we spent plenty of hours terrorizing motorists and wayward dogs with the torquey little buggy, which eventually ended up with a candy-apple red '67 GTO body, thus pre-dating our eight years of GM A-Body ownership by um, three years or so. Steve Finkbuilt has a slightly older fantasy — that of Tamiya's Sand Scorcher Baja Bug. And given that the car is from the company's pre-ABS-plastic era, it goes for far too much money for an econo tinkerer like himself. So, naturally, he built his own, using a venerable Grasshopper chassis as the basis. [Finkbuilt]

7:15 PM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
1,453 views, 16 comments

Latest by poolsk8r: HAHA-a coworker and myself were just talking about our teenage RC driving days before we could drive the real thing. It's funny cuz I had a Grasshopper with a Baja Bug body added later too. more »

x to the r

Kia to Designate Performance Models "XR"

It may be cliché to stick a bunch of Xs and Rs on a tweaked econobox and call it a performance brand, but some clichés are just fine for getting the job done. For Kia, XR will mean performance — that is, turbocharging in Europe, supercharging for US-bound cars. Kia told Autocar it's calling that strategy "glocal" — offering a global brand but localized for the specifics of individual markets. The company telegraphed its plans by way of a tricked-out, XR-badged C'eed hatch (above), revealed at a press function in Korea last week. It's all part of a plan to expand Kia sales in the US from 315,000 units last year to 627,000 by 2010. And that's just fine, because cheap, supercharged hatchbacks make us daydream of new ideas for a racing series. – Mike Spinelli More »

11:36 AM on Tue May 22 2007
By Mike Spinelli
664 views, 21 comments

Latest by Evander: @drewdraws2: I thought it was BMW designed but partnered with Peugeot? Something about using BMW's engineers but with Peugeot's finance's, and letting Peugeot use it in one of their new cars this year, the 207. I know they were working on that more »

car shows

Since 1957: All Toyotafest 2007


All manner of Toyotas rolled into the Queen Mary in Long Beach for this year's All Toyotafest. The Toyota Owner's and Restorer's Club threw the party, and invited all years and makes of Toyotas to help celebrate the company's 50th Anniversary in America. As Long Beach was where Toyota opened its first American manufacturing plant in 1972, it seemed a fitting spot for this reunion of sorts. Up until a few short days ago the thought of slamming a 1978 Cressida had somehow not yet ventured into our noggins. Walk through the gallery for a through the years look at Toyota from Toyopet to toaster. – Mike Bumbeck More »

5:30 PM on Mon May 14 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
1,017 views, 11 comments

Latest by pjsammy: @BigRon: ABSO-friggin-LUTELY! They're turning into Buick/Mercury on the bland-o-meter. *Something* PLEASE for us enthusiasts that remember how cool Toyota used to be. It's a sad, sad day when the X-runner truck is the fastest Toyota :( more »

car shows

All Toyotafest to Celebrate Toyota 50th Anniversary

Believe it or not, Toyota has been selling cars and trucks in America for 50 years now. The one place to see rolling examples of all those 50 years is at the 12th Annual All Toyotafest, coming to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California this May 12th. This year the Toyota Museum will be rolling in with the faithful and displaying some vintage Toyotas in honor of the 50th Anniversary. Since this year's All Toyotafest is still in the future, we offer up a huge gallery of Toyotas from last year's All Toyotafest. Everything from early Toyopets to the most awesome Toyota 2000GT is in the gallery, which starts after the show at the Toyota Museum and works backwards in time. Registration for the 2007 All Toyotafest is now open, so yank that Crown Toyoglide Wagon out of the barn and sign up for the show. – Mike Bumbeck More »

2:15 PM on Fri Mar 16 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
1,682 views, 6 comments

Latest by Turboner: Scott Kovalic and I share a mutual hatred of Subarus, and a love of the maintenace challenged, mitsu/mopar Talon (he rallies a first gen Tsi AWD instead of the alltrac now). He's a cool guy, he offered to let more »

toyota

Toyoglide Crowns Starlets at T.O.R.C. BBQ


A small gathering of old school Toyotas foreshadowed the upcoming and entirely more massive ALL TOYOTAFEST, scheduled to help celebrate Toyota's 50th Anniversary in America at the Queen Mary in Long Beach this May. The Toyota Owner's and Restorer's Club [T.O.R.C] was established in 1995 with the goal of keeping pre-1985 Toyotas rolling and racing. The T.O.R.C. hosts the ALL TOYOTAFEST, which is open to all manner of Toyota. At this meet Starlets and Tercel SR5's coexisted together with MR2's, along with delicious hot dogs and burgers. None other than Chito Solomon himself employed 2600cc's of displacement and Toyoglide automatic transmission to get his Crown rolling in from the Valley to Harbor City. More Starlets, and return of Coronamino in the gallery. – Mike Bumbeck More »

11:00 AM on Sun Feb 25 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
1,366 views, 11 comments

Latest by toyotageek: That little orange fastback is my 1977 CelicaGT - all original - and you can't have it! It was featured in the October 2005 issue of Hemming Sports & Exotic Car. Hey. Toyota has LOT's of cool cars! If you wanna see more »

news

Hasbro to Expose Teens to Nitro Fumes

A week ago, we were hanging out with ex-pro-BMX racer and current nostalgia Fuel Funny Car driver Jeff Utterback and the Notorious S.P.E.N.C.E. at the tail end of a party. Utterback mentioned that he gets a lot of flak on message boards because he drives a Prius, with old-timers calling him a "leftist" and whatnot. He said, "I just say, 'Hey, I drive a Prius so I can afford more nitro,'" a fuel that retails for around 700 bucks a drum. Spence chimed in, "Why don't we just invade the world's largest nitromethane-producing country?" More »

10:00 PM on Wed Jul 12 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
113 views, 1 comment

Latest by jrhmobile: Scary flashback ... the grade school science fair. "Accidentally" firing up my Cox 1-lunger gas dragster, and whiffing the burnt fuel. Then hearing the big bang when the engine let go at the base of the cylinder case and nearly more »