Not all of the SCX cars with steering, the Ferrari and Minardi don't. They are not as quick as the Ninco cars but are but drive nicely.
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.
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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.
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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 😊
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 😊
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Hmmm...Crash 'n' burn, though. Crash, and burn.
It's just... wrong and wrong-er.
I'm in a bit of a habit of building up my collection of SCX 90s/00 rally cars. set my time period to 93-03 and collection going well.
I remember buying my first SCX car - 2x celicas and the 94/5 impreza back when they were new, and the 4wd even non magnet compared to my scalextric equivelent escort cosworths, renault meganes and impreza wrcs were night and day. So much more fun. collected a few more including buying a lancer while i was on holiday in spain (model shop in figueres). stopped collecting when I "grew up" and just getting back into it now 25 odd years later.... bought a fair number over the last year or so and converting them all to digital
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I remember buying my first SCX car - 2x celicas and the 94/5 impreza back when they were new, and the 4wd even non magnet compared to my scalextric equivelent escort cosworths, renault meganes and impreza wrcs were night and day. So much more fun. collected a few more including buying a lancer while i was on holiday in spain (model shop in figueres). stopped collecting when I "grew up" and just getting back into it now 25 odd years later.... bought a fair number over the last year or so and converting them all to digital
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