| Everyone who gets into the hobby of RC cars needs | | | | in the scale of 1/8. |
| some clarifications regarding the details and | | | | The most popular models in Gas Powered Remote |
| terminologies used by old expert while describing their | | | | Control Cars today are the 1/10th scale nitro powered |
| experiences. One usually searches for the queries on | | | | RC touring cars, and the 1/8th scale nitro remote |
| the message boards, discussion forums, websites, | | | | control monster trucks, 1/10 Associated Nitro TC3 |
| manufacturers product details booklets, catalogues, | | | | Touring Car 1/8 HPI Savage 21 Nitro Monster Truck. |
| etc. All these material and resources use terms that | | | | These are powered by 2-stroke gas engines that use |
| may sound new to someone in the hobby. It helps to | | | | special fuel (nitro, methanol, castor oil). Out of the box, |
| know the jargons used in the trade to understand the | | | | gas powered remote control cars are faster that |
| tricks and tips better. | | | | electric RC cars. Amongst the Electric Powered |
| RC Scale Sizes are used to define the dimension of | | | | Remote Control Cars, the most popular ones today |
| the cars or the size of the car. A 1/10th scale rc car | | | | are the 1/10th scale electric touring cars. |
| means that it is one-tenth the size of the real car. A 1 | | | | To make it easy for beginners to get into the hobby, |
| 8th scale RC car means that it is one-eight the size of | | | | manufacturers have produced kits that are Ready to |
| the real car. Remote control cars come in many sizes | | | | Run (RTR) Radio Control cars. Most of these kits |
| such as 1/24, 1/18, 1/12, 1/10, 1/8 and 1/5. The 1/24th | | | | come as assembled and completed with radio, |
| scale is small, the 1/5th scale is large. Some of the | | | | batteries, and charger. If you are a beginner, it is highly |
| popular brands come in specific sizes. Kyosho Mini Z | | | | recommend you buy ready to run RC kits. |
| and Tamiya Tamtech come as 1/24 scale. HPI Micro | | | | Other term used for the RC cars is the 2WD and |
| RS4 comes as 1/18 scale. Associated 12i and HPI Mini | | | | 4WD. This pertains to the two wheel drive and four |
| RS4 come as 1/12 scale. RC cars viz. Associated | | | | wheel drives respectively. In case of 2WD usually rear |
| Nitro TC3 and RC10GT, HPI Dash and Nitro RS4, | | | | wheels are active where as in case of four wheel |
| OFNA OB4, Traxxas Nitro T-Maxx and Nitro 4-Tec all | | | | drive all the four wheels are attached to the engine |
| fall in the scale of 1/10. Models like HPI Nitro Savage 21, | | | | and derive the power. Thus they give better edge |
| OFNA Titan and Ultra MBX, Tamiya Terra Crusher fall | | | | around the corners and better maneuvering. |