C3PO Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Hello, I’m getting interested again in 1/10 touring cars after a break of ten years. Sold a Hot Bodies Cyclone which I loved using. But looking at Modelsport website there seems to be a huge lack of variety of touring electric 1/10th scale cars around now. Any reason for this and what cars are now considered the most competitive in terms of chassis, motors, esc, batteries and tyres? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bajadre Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Welcome back to the hobby CP30 :) Sorry i cant help on the touring side of things one of the best way for finding a decent in racer is too check local race results and see what everyones running nowadays etc good luck man enjoy 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred barlow Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Touring cars have gone a bit more specialised website wise I don't race them but iv got a couple of old Schumacher's in my collection (running brushed so are slow to modern standards), the best thing I can suggest is contact your local club and see what's popular there, at my local track they run Schumacher mi1v2 to mi7, x-rays, Yokohama's (and others) in 2 motor classes (17t and 13.5t) if you look on mb models they have a selection as there is a track attached to the shop. As for batteries I run NiMH still so I don't know and tyres seem to depend on the track but are mainly sorrex or sweep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone-wolf Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 welcome back, cant really help as most of my rc cars is off road, though i have just gotten a TT02 subaru but its more a rally car for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C3PO Posted October 31, 2020 Author Share Posted October 31, 2020 Many thanks! Will check out my local club again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 (edited) On 30/10/2020 at 16:53, C3PO said: Hello, I’m getting interested again in 1/10 touring cars after a break of ten years. Sold a Hot Bodies Cyclone which I loved using. But looking at Modelsport website there seems to be a huge lack of variety of touring electric 1/10th scale cars around now. Any reason for this and what cars are now considered the most competitive in terms of chassis, motors, esc, batteries and tyres? Basically theres 3 tiers to touring car racing now, top tier is where your Cyclone would have sat. Thats full carbon fibre, alloy bulkheads, gear diffs etc. Xray T4'20, Yokomo BD10, Scumacher Mi7 etc. all those are mid motor touring cars at top line state of the art current spec chassis. Next tier down are the budget racers, usually fibreglass chassis material, plastic bulkheads, usually a similar design (sometimes mid motor, usually rear motor. Examples of these are Xpress Xecute XQ10, 3Racing Advance S64, Schumacher Mission FT (currently a FWD chassis but 4wd conversion coming soon). The bottom tier is pretty much beginner cars, Tamiya TT01E or the Tamiya TT02. If it were my money making the decision, I'd go top tier but the prices are lot higher than in the past, £450+ is the norm for that end of the market now. Schumacher have just dropped the price of the Mi7 this month so worth looking at as its a very competitive car. I run Xray T4'20 at the minute and loads of barely used ones are coming up on sales pages as the 2021 version just got released the ot her week. £250-300 would get one of those, they were £530 at the start of the year. Electrics are club dependent over which classes they run, 17.5 is usually the most common at the minute. Batteries are 7.4v hardcase LiPo, lots of good choices at various pricepoints, Tyres are club dependent too. Edited November 24, 2020 by Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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