Survey - would you consider buying a US$130 rock crawler?

[pritch]

I've got a mix of expensive r/c vehicles and budget r/c vehicles, RTRs and kits, and I've had expensive full-size cars and budget full-size cars, and in my experience you get just as many problems at either end of the scale.

I don't really believe that budget has to mean bad, and I get a bit tired of people saying something cheap can never be good. It's just not true.

In the UK you can get a Maverick Scout RTR delivered to your door for £120 and it's a perfectly decent crawler. You can do things to improve it of course, you can lower the CoG, add 4ws, cut the foams, etc. etc. but the point is you don't have to - you can enjoy crawling perfectly adequately with the stock vehicle. In my opinion, based on experience, the quality and robustness of cheaper RTRs is much better now than it was ten years ago.

[Olle P]

I have to agree with Pritch.
By mass production it should be possible to provide a solid design at low cost. How low is determined by the profit margin involved.

The British "Mini" was an instant hit at a sale price of £495. Only problem with it was that the production cost was just over £530...

[Dostradamas]

Originally Posted by AutoCrawler

Not going to let my embarrassment die are you....

It says at "RCCrawler.com Bulletin Board" at top of the page here

http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/

and this definitely not FacePlant.

Wear it like a badge of honor.
I was there & so were you.
I am proud to have been around during the birth of this internet thing.

[SwampDawg]

Originally Posted by Karadjas

I believe everyone has seen cheap "bargain" r/cs from China. They are bad quality, so bad that they drive people out of the hobby by discouraging new hobbyists who wish to try something cheap first. I know I will never buy a $130 rtr crawler, as there is just no room for development/tooling/proper materials/transportation costs and the profits of however many agents there are in that $130. So something will suffer, and it will not be transportation costs or profits.

Also, you need a blue star to do market research, or the mods are gonna get medieval on your hiney.

im with this guy^^

i woudn't even look at the box on the shelf in either RTR/Kit form!
100% garbage, your better off hitting walmart and buying a shitty 50.00 plastic car the will last 15minutes before it takes a crap on your lawn.

save money too lol