Best Radio-Controlled Cars for 2022 – Roadshow [CNET]

Stating the obvious here, but we love cars here at Roadshow, and our love of cars predates our ability to actually drive them. A lot of us got our automotive high speed kicks as kids through radio-controlled cars — and, for some of us, that love never went away.

There’s an almost infinite variety of remote control cars available for the RC enthusiast now. You can get hardcore on-road remote control car racers in both battery-electric and nitro fuel (aka gas-powered), two-wheel drive stadium trucks and buggies, monster trucks, drift cars and even rock crawlers with locking differentials and portal axles. For the more aesthetically inclined and fanciful, there are the wild creations from firms such as Tamiya, and that’s before we even talk about the vehicle’s size and scale.

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Getting into remote control cars can be intimidating, but we’re here to help, so strap in, charge those radios and get ready because these are our favorite radio-controlled cars. Our best remote control car picks range from a high-speed toy car to a rough terrain rock crawler.

Living the RC car life

Radio-controlled cars is one of those hobbies that can take you from a cheap and fun car like the Kyosho Mini Z all the way to bank-breaking, high-speed, competitive racing car options with plenty of stops in between. It’s fun for kids and adults and it’s a great way of teaching kids some of the technical aspects of working on cars. Given all the time we’ve all been spending at home with our families lately, RC cars provide a great alternative to binge-watching more British police procedurals on Netflix.

If you’re thinking of getting into RC cars, one of the best things you can do is go and find your local hobby shop. They’re usually packed with people who’ve been doing this for years and they’ll generally be glad to share their knowledge with someone just getting interested in things. From there, it’s a matter of finding out which slice of the RC hobby you like best and diving in. But if you don’t want to do that, you can’t go wrong with any of our Roadshow-approved RC car picks above.