About Remote Control Cars

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The beginnings of the remote control car can be traced back to the 1940s, when small, nitro methane-powered engines first entered the market. At the time, the only way to control an engine-powered model car was with a tether.

Several early commercially viable remote control cars became available by 1966, produced by El-Gi (Elettronica Giocattoli), a company from Reggio Emilia, Italy. Their first remote control car model was a 1:12 Ferrari 250LM.

Between the mid to late 1960s, a British company called Mardave also began to produce commercially viable remote control car toys. In 1976, the Japanese firm Tamiya released a series of highly detailed but mechanically simple electric on-road car models. This allowed remote control cars to be driven virtually anywhere, not just on bitumen and smooth surfaces.

Remote control cars vary greatly from the family RC Cars: Electric rc cars which run on batteries, nitro rc cars which run on nitro fuel and petrol remote control cars which run on unleaded petrol. With the general family remote control car, you are usually required to either insert batteries into the car and the radio control handset, or charge a rechargeable battery inside the car but still put normal batteries in the controller.

Next on the family tree of remote control cars are nitro cars, which are designed for people who have had a few years experience of rc cars and either are looking for the next car up, or into competition racing or something in-between. Nitro rc cars require running in, just like a normal road car in that the parts are new and the fuel and lubricants needs to run through the car, which can be a time consuming and at times a frustrating process.

The last on the family tree are petrol remote control cars which most people never really think of, as they are for huge fans and defiantly a big boys’ toy. At a length of around a meter, these cars are big.

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