Redcat Racing Volcano EPX Truck 1-10 Scale Electric

 (4 customer reviews)

For the reviewer who had trouble with their car, I think that is the exception. The couple of Redcat cars we've got have worked great out of the box. These are much higher quality cars than you would get from a toy store. Go look how much it is to get a Traxxas. The Volcano is certainly a very good deal since this will run out of the box. If something breaks on this car, you can fix it. If you want to make the car better, you can buy better parts for it. I'd certainly recommend a Redcat to someone getting into the hobby. They are cheap and good quality. I don't believe they require any more maintenance work than any other hobby level RC car. My 6yr old trashes his Volcano and it's never broke.
Note that at some point you will likely want a faster car, and then you'll be looking at brushless motors, new chargers, new batteries, etc.... From what I've read in other reviews, the Volcano may not be the best car for those (expensive) upgrades, but otherwise it is a very nice car.

Purchased this vehicle for one of the kids for Christmas. After he opened it we found a multitude of problems. The charger didn't work - so we had to buy a third party charger for the car. Once we had that taken care of there was a malfunction where the rceiver and the transmitter would not connect - we had power to the car - power to the remote - but no joy. Couldn't turn or go forward or backward. Multiple calls to the manufacturer and no one called us back. Emails to the distributor we purchased it from and no communication. We had to engage Amazon and they refunded the money and take over for us. Thank goodness for that - but still 3 weeks to get resoultion. I wouldn't buy from Redcat again.

not a bad rc car. car parts are weak. i had it for a whole day and bent a spring and a dog bone on it already.
however it does take a beating since in am over seas and was looking for a obby