custom cars of today...

[Austin T]

So, you are both using comparisons. How 'bout that? Why would you compare two totally different vehicular designs, if you think it wrong? The world is not a totally logical place. Science has been proving that for years.

I think your missing my point,I made a comparison to show you how absurd it is to compare things that are totally different. You might even call it "Compare-ception"

Edited June 9, 2015 by Austin T

[blunc]

this train has left the rails.

might as call in the clean up squad and post it as a bio hazard.

[Hawk312]

The electric think might take time with adults, look at your LHS that sells R/C and count the number of electric vehicles vs nitro. Most of what we sell now that brushless and electric are coming of age is electric. Take a vehicle like the Traxxas Revo with a 3.3cc (.203ci) 2 stroke and 2 speed auto and it might hit 50 on a good day, requires constant tweeking and tuning, a while requiring fuel that can cost as much as $30 a gallon. Then look at the E-Revo with the factory installed Castle Mamba Monster Maxx ESC/2200kV motor, throw in a couple 3 cell lipo batteries and you'll have a truck that will exceed 65mph.......so long as the tires don't explode first! One place the instant torque would come in handy is on trucks that will actually go off road, I would hope to see Land Rover or Jeep pull it off, and wouldn't be surprised if Rover could, although Jeep does have a problem with loyal but closed minded customers, to point that the guy currently in charge of Jeep has said that if they go too radical on the next Wrangler, he might need armed security! Comsidering the receptions the XJ, YJ, KJ/KK, and now the new Cherokee and Renegade have all recieved, there's no doubt in mind that he might be right!

I was wondering if this was going to come up. I have been thinking about this same thing. I used to be into RC`s in the late 80s/early90s. I just recently started buying older cars and installing new internals. I have Grasshoppers and Hornets that have a brushless/lipo setup that, if my numbers are correct, should reach a speed of 73mph theoretically. Of course they never reach that because they end up crashing into something or flying out of control first. Anyway, the electronics were surprisingly cheap to do this, very inexpensive. To go half as fast, we probably would have spent double the $$ back in the day. It just makes me wonder how much farther electrics in automotive applications have come in the past 5 -10 years. I am betting far further than our perceptions.