HobbydexRC car types
Releases and platforms grouped by what they are, from buggies and trucks to drift cars and boats, with the brands that make most of them.
Buggies
An off-road racer with a low, light chassis, long-travel suspension, a rear wing and its wheels outside the body. 2WD or 4WD, electric or nitro.
1633 releases · 720 platforms
Top brands: Tamiya, Kyosho, Team Associated
Truggies
A truck-buggy hybrid: a buggy-style chassis made longer and wider, on bigger truck tyres, with a truck-style body and wing. More stable over rough ground and big jumps than a buggy, a little slower through tight corners. Usually 4WD, electric or nitro.
237 releases · 125 platforms
Top brands: Himoto Racing, HoBao, Team Associated
Stadium trucks
A racer with buggy suspension under a pickup-style body, on wide truck tyres outside the body. 2WD or 4WD.
219 releases · 63 platforms
Top brands: Team Associated, Traxxas, HPI Racing
Short course
Modelled on full-size short course race trucks: a truck body with wide fenders over long-travel suspension, and bumpers front and rear so trucks can lean on each other in a race. 2WD or 4WD.
360 releases · 116 platforms
Top brands: Team Associated, Traxxas, ARRMA
Monster trucks
Big wheels, high ground clearance and long suspension travel, made for jumping and bashing rather than racing.
1009 releases · 403 platforms
Desert trucks
Modelled on desert racers and trophy trucks: a wide stance and very long suspension travel under a body over a tube frame.
129 releases · 46 platforms
Top brands: HPI Racing, Losi, ARRMA
Trucks
Scale rigid road trucks: tippers, dump trucks, hook lifts, cranes, military trucks and 4x4 pickups, often with lights and sound.
497 releases · 303 platforms
Tractor trucks
Scale semi tractor units (Sattelzugmaschinen): a cab and chassis with a fifth wheel and no fixed body, often with a trailer, lights and sound. Some carry a loader crane or a tipper semi-trailer.
142 releases · 59 platforms
Race trucks
Modelled on the cab-over semi trucks of truck racing: a tractor unit without a trailer, on an on-road car chassis.
15 releases · 7 platforms
Trailers
A trailer or dolly sold on its own, towed by a tractor truck, a machine or a crawler: semi-trailers, low loaders, tippers and timber dollies. Nothing drives its wheels; some have working hydraulics, lights or landing legs.
150 releases · 117 platforms
Top brands: LESU, ScaleART, Hobby Details
Crawlers
Built for slow, technical off-road driving: climbing rocks, trails and steep or rough terrain. Solid axles on links, lots of suspension articulation, low gearing, and usually a scale body.
1216 releases · 395 platforms
Touring cars
An on-road car under the body of a production or race car, on rubber or foam tyres. Most are 4WD, driven by belts or a shaft; front-wheel drive (FF) and rear-wheel drive chassis are common too.
2026 releases · 426 platforms
Top brands: Tamiya, Kyosho, HPI Racing
GT
A GT-body racing car on a buggy-style chassis: the 1/8 GT class, on nitro or electric power.
93 releases · 25 platforms
On-road
An on-road racer with independent suspension that is not a touring car: the 1/8 nitro or electric on-road class.
129 releases · 80 platforms
Top brands: XRAY, Tamiya, Team Shepherd
Formula
An open-wheel single-seater, modelled on Formula 1 and similar classes; usually rear-wheel drive.
165 releases · 61 platforms
Pan cars
A simple on-road racer: a flat chassis plate with the motor on a rear pod driving the rear axle directly, no gearbox, usually on foam tyres.
113 releases · 46 platforms
Top brands: XRAY, Team Associated, Schumacher
Rally
A rally car body on a 4WD chassis with more ground clearance than a touring car, for tarmac, gravel and dirt.
308 releases · 53 platforms
Top brands: Tamiya, ABC Hobby, HPI Racing
Street bashers
A road car style body on a sturdy chassis made for fun driving and speed rather than racing.
21 releases · 8 platforms
Drift cars
An on-road car set up to slide sideways: today mostly rear-wheel drive with a gyro, on hard plastic tyres.
616 releases · 102 platforms
Drag cars
Built for straight-line drag racing over a short strip: no prep drag cars and trucks with a car body, big soft rear tyres and a wheelie bar, and rail dragsters.
39 releases · 12 platforms
Top brands: Team Associated, Losi, Primal RC
Lowriders
A classic American car that sits low on small wire wheels, with servos or hydraulics that lift and drop each corner, so it can hop, dance and drive on three wheels.
20 releases · 8 platforms
Top brands: Redcat Racing, Tamiya
Oval cars
Built for oval-track racing, mostly an American scene: winged sprint cars with their big top wing, midgets, late models, modifieds and street stocks, on dirt or asphalt. Many turn only left, with offset suspension and staggered tyres.
86 releases · 60 platforms
Top brands: Custom Works, 1RC Racing, Losi
Speed run
Built for top speed in a straight line.
6 releases · 2 platforms
Karts
A go-kart: a low tube frame with no suspension, small wheels and the driver's seat in the open, often with a figure in it.
15 releases · 4 platforms
Top brands: Team Saxo, Thunder Tiger, Kyosho
Motorcycles
A two-wheeled bike, mostly motocross and dirt bikes, kept upright by a gyro or a spinning flywheel in the front wheel; often with a rider figure.
29 releases · 17 platforms
Snowmobiles
A snow vehicle on drive tracks and front skis, modelled on a snowmobile.
1 release · 1 platform
Top brands: RC Creations
Tanks
A tracked military tank: a hull on tracks driven left and right, with a turning turret and often sound, smoke and recoil.
109 releases · 23 platforms
Construction
Construction machines: excavators, wheel loaders, bulldozers, dumpers and cranes, often with working hydraulics.
198 releases · 134 platforms
Boats
Radio controlled boats.
15 releases · 13 platforms
Top brands: Traxxas, PrintFully3D, 3D Sets
Other cars
Releases whose type is not known yet; they move to their own type as soon as a maker page states it.
519 releases · 424 platforms