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HYPER 7yh people are gonna shout at me now but its the best buggy for bashing and still pretty competitive at club level.

I agree, for a good general nitro buggy, you cant beat a hyper.

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Looking at the spec of the buggy, it's a cheap buggy...but you pretty much always get what you pay for!

The radio kit that gets supplied with it will be of low quality ( The one Nitrotek include is a low cost 27Mhz AM job ) and the whole thing is advertising 'features' like a single needle carb for ease of tuning ( read: impossible to tune it to run well ) and things like a '2.5mm aluminium chassis ...(read: at least 25% too thin to be any good on the rough ) Aluminium suspension arms ( read: what would you EXPECT them to be made of? cheese? Hit a bump or a jump and they take a beating) and so on.

If all you want to do is trundle round the local park, then it will probably be OK. Try to do more and I can see it breaking into little tiny pieces quite a lot. To be honest, buying cheap will not be the best introduction to the hobby and whilst I fully understand that money is hard to come by these days, you really want to get the most from the thing for as long as possible. Look to spend about

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The hyper is a nice buggy but why dont you go for one of these Instead?

If I had the choice again I would go for the Hong Nor I think.

I've got nothing against the hyper. Mine has never skipped a beat but every one has a hyper. :whistling:

I may be wrong but aren't Hong Nor and Hobao part of the same parent company? The parts seem pretty much interchangable and on the Ofna site the Jammin cars/trucks look not unlike Hoing Nor stuff!

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Looking at the details on that Hyper 7 with the .28Cu motor, that is a lot of buggy for the money, and should go well. The tuned .21 is for those who want to go racing in competition, but would be a bit more temperamental in 'ordinary' use. Though I don't own a HoBoa buggy myself, there are lots here who do, so you should have no probelm getting advice on setup etc. Also, there seems to be a decent spares backup for them too. VERY important for a first buggy. If I wasn't saving my pennies up for a HPI Baja, I might be tempted to add this to my shopping list for next summer :)

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