Love SCX

As per the Scalextric topic, I’d like to shine a spotlight on SCX cars.
They’re not the fastest cars, but somehow their speed is exactly right for my taste. Permitted it has a decent motor, because the biggest flaw with SCX is their inconsistent motoring of their models. I have pretty quick cars with an RX42B motor but also sluggish ones with the RX42. It’s never clear what’s under the bonnet.

Set aside that biggest flaw, once they’re run in I find many of their models a joy to drive.
These three especially: the Porsche, the Ferrari and the Seat.


Most modern SCX cars have a nice feature: a simple yet effective floating subchassis where motor and rear axle are placed, which permits body float and independent movement of the motor / rear wheels department. Front wheels are in general free of excessive play and form a sturdy front setup.
This gives the car - with simple measures - a pretty good road behaviour.
Wheels / tires in general are decent and easy to true. Some go round my track so quietly, it’s as if there’s alloy wheels attached: perfectly round and true.





the Seat in particular is a joy. It’s extremely wide, look how narrow the Porsche is in comparison.
It’s perfectly controllable in curves, it “hangs” on the throttle and I can control the amount of sliding with ease.

All in all I think SCX cars are as limited as Scalextrics, so no high end cars - but with such clever simple subchassis solutions, easy to improve their handling and pretty good on the track. A joy to race them! Now only they should fix their inconsistent motor line up 😊