Cheapest price that I could find for the RC car + 3 batteries. Local stock ships from Banggood's AU warehouse.
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It’s a stretched version of the 144001
It’s good but fragile. Interesting that the chassis is metal but all the parts likely to break are plastic.
If you're looking to dip your toes it's pretty good. Fairly sure this is a brushed version - lots of ppl prefer brushless these days.
Do you have any brushless to recommend?
Depends what's on special really. My Eachine EC30B was a great starter buggy.
I was going to recommend this as well. Great enthusiast RC car with a newbie price tag. But unfortunately doesn't seem to be on Banggood at the moment.
If it’s for a kid who will crash it then I would not get this one as it not so robust for a 8 year old learning.
If for kid go something like this
[AU$218.94]MJX 16208 16209 HYPER GO 1/16 Brushless High Speed RC Car Vechile Models 45km/h RC Vehicles from Toys Hobbies and Robot on banggood https://banggood.onelink.me/zMT7/n9hfmva3
It’s also brushless and gets good feedback on YouTube.
If it’s for a younger person then it’s a good car. I have it’s brother 124018 and after a while I have had to change out the all in one esc.
But that's 1/16 scale at $220.
If someone wanted a bigger 1/12 car with 3 batteries and delivered for under $170, this isn't a bad offering at all.
At 55km/h top speed, things are going to break if there's a crash regardless of metal or plastic… but at 1/12 you're going to get more stability with the larger size. And remembering at this price point too!
I think this one is pretty good to get started in a car that's very fast and would be no doubt a lot of fun- for a much more decent price than anything they could buy locally.
Fair call. I can only talk from experience and my nephew has the smaller 144001 and I was always fixing it. The mjx gets rave reviews and yes it is more $$
People should watch YouTube reviews. Bloke called Tomley Rc I like
I have both, the MJX is 10 times better. That thing is indestructible. WLToys breaks every run. Most have the same experience. Personally I won't be buying anything from WLToys again
I'd seriously consider the HBX 16889A Pro if you are looking for something tough. I have both the HBX and the MJX Hyper Go and given them both skate park bashings. The MJX is pretty tough, but I've had a string of parts needed for the Hyper Go (front bumper, steering seat, wheel hexes). The HBX has needed nothing so far (though I'm sure it will at some point).
I bought my HBX from here:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/275187271795
$175 with 3 batteries.
It's not branded HBX, but I believe HBX sell their cars whitelabel so resellers can rebrand them. I suspect this is a whitelabel version that's not branded. Box/remote/components/etc the same as I see in the HBX reviews on youtube.
(I'm not affiliated with the eBay seller.)
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Ah yes! Sneaky!
I have one of these.
It's fragile as others say above, but it's light.
I've upgraded mine with an esc, motor and 3s and it does just shy of 120km.
Stupidly impractical, but a fun learning tool with kids about basics of vehicles and such.
You can get metal upgrade bits to strengthen most parts just depends on your use case, but this one is really for speed and not bashing about.
Does anyone own it? Is that good?