Relatively Inexpensive R / Y Car on a Large Scale 1:10

A review of a radio-con­trolled mon­ster truck in a “large” scale of 1:10, per­form­ing in the price seg­ment “up to $ 80”. In short, the car is a com­pro­mise between size and price, so it is bet­ter to attribute it to the “Chil­dren’s” seg­ment.

Who among us, as a child, did not want to dri­ve a car with radio con­trol? At the same time, you always want the machine to be as large and impres­sive as pos­si­ble. For­tu­nate­ly, today Chi­nese man­u­fac­tur­ers offer just a huge range of radio-con­trolled cars for every taste and col­or — what­ev­er your heart desires for your mon­ey. But choos­ing from this assort­ment, it becomes obvi­ous that the cost of a toy direct­ly depends on its size and func­tion­al­i­ty — here you already have to think about it.

In terms of size, apart from the very expen­sive, pro­fes­sion­al mod­els, the largest of the most com­mon sizes is 1:10 scale. At the same time, as a rule, the price tag of cars of this mag­ni­tude starts from $100 and can reach up to $300-$400.

In this case, the cost in this case is affect­ed, as always, by a lit­tle less than every­thing: the type of engine, the design of shock absorbers, the frame mate­r­i­al, the capac­i­ty and type of the bat­tery, max­i­mum speed, through­put, and much more, i.e. almost like a real car.

When choos­ing such a toy, it is nec­es­sary to decide first of all for whom it is intend­ed.

If this is a teenag­er or already an adult (as it often hap­pens), then of course you should not waste time on tri­fles and it is bet­ter to choose some­thing that is per­haps more endur­ing and fast, which can give the own­er a lit­tle dri­ve.

If this is a child, then it is not nec­es­sary to imme­di­ate­ly try to give him a pro­fes­sion­al machine, because. it is worth remem­ber­ing that, as a rule, chil­dren do not care what to break and how much it cost. But the size of the toy in this case plays one of the main roles for them.

As it turned out, in this case, if nec­es­sary, you can find what you need.

Meet the 10th scale all-wheel dri­ve car called (judg­ing by the box) Sav­age X4.

It is worth explain­ing a lit­tle here that on a large scale there is a small “detail” that hits the wal­let of the future own­er a lit­tle. The fact is that the car itself is not small and not light, but in the pack­age it becomes even larg­er and heav­ier and, unfor­tu­nate­ly, ceas­es to fall under the “Free Ship­ping” cri­te­ria, so the cost of its ship­ment is added to the rel­a­tive­ly small cost of the car.

In this case, the size of the pack­age in length reach­es almost 60 cm.

To make it com­plete­ly clear — a pho­to for com­par­i­son with an ordi­nary match­box.

In addi­tion to bright pic­tures, there was a place on the box for instruc­tions on installing bat­ter­ies in the con­trol pan­el and a bat­tery in the machine itself.

We remove the box with a trans­par­ent win­dow. In order to get the machine, you will have to tin­ker a lit­tle, because. it is secured to a card­board back­ing for safe­ty dur­ing trans­porta­tion.

There is noth­ing super­flu­ous in the kit — only the most nec­es­sary:

• the machine itself
• bat­tery (7.4V 1100mA)
• pow­er sup­ply (10V 800mA) and charg­er (7.4V)
• remote con­trol

Remote con­trol pis­tol type. The motion con­trol wheel (“steer­ing wheel”) is locat­ed on the right, there is no pos­si­bil­i­ty of trans­fer­ring to the left side (for left-han­ders). The wheel has a rub­ber tire for easy han­dling.

The gas trig­ger, which is respon­si­ble for mov­ing for­ward / back­ward, is quite smooth in press­ing.

Under the translu­cent cov­er, in the upper part of the remote con­trol, there is a pow­er slid­er, a but­ton for con­nect­ing to the machine (Bind), as well as two LEDs for indi­cat­ing the oper­a­tion of the remote con­trol and the pres­ence of a con­nec­tion)

The remote con­trol is pow­ered by 6 AA bat­ter­ies or recharge­able bat­ter­ies.

Final­ly, let’s move on to the machine itself.

She looks quite attrac­tive, I think. I don’t know on pur­pose it was con­ceived this way or it just hap­pened, but the appear­ance of the machine, or rather the shape of the body (crust), is very rem­i­nis­cent of its BMW X6 forms.

The declared char­ac­ter­is­tics are

• length — 610 mm;
• width — 320 mm;
• height — 250mm;
• pow­er sup­ply — Li-Po 7.4V 1100mA bat­tery;
• oper­at­ing range of the con­trol pan­el — up to 70 m;
• range — 2.4 Ghz;
• oper­at­ing time on a sin­gle charge — 12–15 min­utes;
• bat­tery charge time — 45–55 min­utes;
• motor type — col­lec­tor;
• dri­ve — full, dif­fer­en­tials front and rear wheels.

The machine is quite weighty — as much as 1.5 kg.

Tires are “low pro­file”, made of soft rub­ber.

The frame is made of thick plas­tic.

Below are the pow­er slid­er, man­u­al wheel off­set adjust­ment (trim), as well as the bat­tery com­part­ment.

The bat­tery com­part­ment pro­vides two options for fix­ing the cov­er — with a screw, as well as with a spe­cial latch.

The com­part­ment is quite roomy, so here, if desired, you can put a suit­able bat­tery of a larg­er capac­i­ty and size.

The peel of the machine is attached with plas­tic clips, they are removed and installed very eas­i­ly, unlike the more com­mon met­al ones.

Let’s take the cov­er off and see…

But actu­al­ly we don’t see any­thing, since almost all the details and mech­a­nisms are hid­den under plas­tic cas­ings, which is pret­ty good, because. to some extent, this pro­tects them from mois­ture, dirt and dust.

Most of the ele­ments of the chas­sis of the machine are made of thick plas­tic.

Car­dan is made of met­al.

Con­trol fee.

Front wheel con­trol motor.

The col­lec­tor motor is also cov­ered with a plas­tic cas­ing.

The front and rear shock absorbers are oil-free, pow­ered by springs.

Pho­to of the car with its own­er

And a few more pics

Now about impres­sions.

Con­sid­er­ing that most of the sus­pen­sion ele­ments are made of rather thick, but still plas­tic, it is not rec­om­mend­ed to jump on it from spring­boards.

In terms of time, rid­ing on a ful­ly charged bat­tery is about 15 min­utes, depend­ing on the inten­si­ty of the pres­sure on the gas trig­ger, after which it is nec­es­sary to charge the bat­tery for about 45–60 min­utes.

In gen­er­al, the machine is quite nim­ble, besides it has rather big dimen­sions, so dri­ving it around the apart­ment is cer­tain­ly not very con­ve­nient, but on the street in a fair­ly large space, on asphalt or even on grass it is a plea­sure.

The machine was pur­chased in GearBest, here is a link to this prod­uct.

Thank you for your atten­tion and all the best.