Whoever says messing around with RC cars isn’t fun, clearly has no sense of joy left in their life. There’s something about the way you can live out your stuntman fantasies in 1:10 scale which makes them so appealing. Getting a few of them together, and setting up an impromptu off-road race through the back garden is one of the cheaper and more childishly enjoyable ways to kill a couple of hours on a weekend. But there’s nothing childish about the new Traxxas X0-1. In fact they won’t sell it to anyone under the age of 16! Not that many 16 year-olds will have the required $1,099 Traxxas are asking for it. Whereas most RC cars are the sort of thing you can get out for an hour or so, do your thing, and then put it away again for days or even weeks, the Traxxas X0-1 is meant for the sort of person who clocks up more miles in miniature than behind the wheel of a real car.
However the Traxxas X0-1′s real claim to fame is the fact it’s the fastest ready-to-run radio controlled car in the world. Straight out of the box it can do 100+ mph, and the 0-60 time of 2.3 seconds is faster than almost every single production supercar on the planet!
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