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Which RTR RWD RC Drift Car is the BEST?? (Rlaarlo XDX vs MST RMX 4 vs HPI Stage D10) — Transcript

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  1. 0:00This is the Ralaro XD X, MST RMX 4, and
  2. 0:04HPI Stage D10. These are the three
  3. 0:07hottest RC ready-to-run drift cars on
  4. 0:10the market right now. And if you're
  5. 0:12thinking about getting into RC drifting,
  6. 0:14you probably want one of these three as
  7. 0:17your starter. So, in this video, we're
  8. 0:20going to go through each one, and we're
  9. 0:22going to compare and contrast specs,
  10. 0:24features, price, performance, everything
  11. 0:27to figure out which one is right for
  12. 0:29you. If you are new to the channel,
  13. 0:30welcome. My name is Troy. This is
  14. 0:31Roadside RC. You'll tend to find me
  15. 0:33bashing, or crawling, or drifting, or
  16. 0:34racing, plus doing product review videos
  17. 0:36and how-tos. And as we get started,
  18. 0:39you'll notice there's some ready-to-run
  19. 0:40RC drift cars on the market that are not
  20. 0:43on the table, and they're not here for
  21. 0:46very good reason. First, and then
  22. 0:48probably the one that's the closest to
  23. 0:50earning a spot on the table, is the Team
  24. 0:53Associated DC10. It's pretty expensive,
  25. 0:57but you can get it with a battery and a
  26. 0:58charger out of the box. fully
  27. 1:00ready-to-run. If you do a lot of work to
  28. 1:03it, it can actually be a pretty decent
  29. 1:06performer. I've actually had the DC10
  30. 1:09kit. I've done a lot of work to it, and
  31. 1:12my opinion is that the Team Associated
  32. 1:13DC10, especially in the ready-to-run
  33. 1:16format, does not drive as well as any of
  34. 1:19these cars and is not as good of a
  35. 1:21value. So,
  36. 1:23I didn't spend the money to make sure
  37. 1:24that it was here on the table. Second is
  38. 1:26the Kyosho FAZER D2. This one is very
  39. 1:30enticing cuz it's a very low price
  40. 1:32point, but it kind of earns its price
  41. 1:35point. This one has become on my no-go
  42. 1:38list because basically, Kyosho developed
  43. 1:42it to a very low price. Really feels
  44. 1:44like they did so so that they could sell
  45. 1:46you as many upgrade parts as possible.
  46. 1:50The car drives decent out of the box,
  47. 1:54not as good as these, not as good as
  48. 1:56spec features, and a lot poorer
  49. 1:58electronics and suspension design and
  50. 2:00everything than any of these here. So,
  51. 2:02even though it's cheaper,
  52. 2:04I really can't recommend that anybody
  53. 2:06starts with it. Third is the Traxxas
  54. 2:08Ford GT Drift. They are the biggest name
  55. 2:10in remote control, but they designed a
  56. 2:14pretty poor drift car.
  57. 2:17Every time somebody has brought one of
  58. 2:19these to our local track, they have
  59. 2:22regretted their purchase decision. The
  60. 2:25thing is just miserable. And then
  61. 2:27lastly, the one that kind of hurts a
  62. 2:28little bit as well, the Yokomo Rookie
  63. 2:31Drift Ready to Run. Maybe one of the
  64. 2:34better chassis that you can get, but all
  65. 2:37of the electronics in it are absolute
  66. 2:40garbage. Maybe it has a lot of good head
  67. 2:43room for performance later on in life,
  68. 2:46but at the beginning for someone
  69. 2:49starting into RC drifting, it's a really
  70. 2:52hard pill to swallow to pay that much
  71. 2:54money for a drift car, and then
  72. 2:56immediately have to beat the like double
  73. 2:59the price by replacing all the
  74. 3:01electronics. But what we are comparing,
  75. 3:04HPI Stage D10, this is the Flux Edition
  76. 3:08now. RMX 4, as of right now they offer
  77. 3:11it in a brushed and brushless. This is
  78. 3:13the brushless spec in order to make it
  79. 3:15as comparable as possible. And then this
  80. 3:17is the brand new just released Ralaro
  81. 3:19XDX.
  82. 3:21They offer [snorts] it in both a Porsche
  83. 3:22and a Supra A90. Obviously, I have the
  84. 3:25Porsche model. So, ready to run versus
  85. 3:27ready to run for all of these. And
  86. 3:28[snorts] category number one that we're
  87. 3:31going to talk about is the base purchase
  88. 3:33price.
  89. 3:34And we immediately get a win here with
  90. 3:37the Ralaro. $349.
  91. 3:41The MST ends up being the most expensive
  92. 3:44at either 449 or 420 something,
  93. 3:47depending on exactly which body you get.
  94. 3:50And the HPI Stage D10 right in the
  95. 3:51middle, $399. So, cheapest, in the
  96. 3:55middle, the most expensive. Category two
  97. 3:58is then the price as tested. What that
  98. 4:01means is really considering the fact
  99. 4:04that this one actually comes with a
  100. 4:05battery and charger, whereas the MST and
  101. 4:09the HPI do not come with a battery and a
  102. 4:12charger. So, you're going to have to
  103. 4:13tack on about an extra $100 to get them
  104. 4:17fully up and ready to run. This one you
  105. 4:20do not. Provide AA batteries for the
  106. 4:22transmitter in all of them. This one's
  107. 4:25running, whereas your still lift looking
  108. 4:27for a charger and a battery for these.
  109. 4:29Being that most complete ready to run
  110. 4:32package, these get a little bit of a
  111. 4:35knock, whereas this one still takes the
  112. 4:36win. So, let me know down in the
  113. 4:38comments. I went back and forth on this
  114. 4:40a little bit. Is this really three
  115. 4:41distinct categories? Is this just kind
  116. 4:44of one or two categories? Ah. I want you
  117. 4:48to argue with me down in the comments as
  118. 4:50to whether or not the categories are
  119. 4:52appropriate. Um, and if you agree with
  120. 4:55my ratings on We are three categories
  121. 4:58in. The Ralaro has won all three of them
  122. 5:00so far based on completeness and price.
  123. 5:03But now we get into the specs of the
  124. 5:06equipment that's underneath the body.
  125. 5:08When we talk the ESCs and motors that
  126. 5:10are in them, all three are brushless.
  127. 5:12And so, wait, okay, great. They're going
  128. 5:14to be kind of equal. Not the case. The
  129. 5:17MST, which is the most expensive one, is
  130. 5:20brushless and it's censored, which is an
  131. 5:22upgrade compared to the previous
  132. 5:25iteration of this car, but it does not
  133. 5:28have the ESC does not have turbo or
  134. 5:30boost in it. So, you are left a little
  135. 5:33underwhelmed by power. Everybody who's
  136. 5:36driven this car has said so far, "Oof, I
  137. 5:38wish I just had a little bit more
  138. 5:40power." But it could be worse cuz the
  139. 5:42control of this is really well. Ralaro,
  140. 5:44on the other hand, went with an ESC that
  141. 5:47is non-sensored, but the power delivery
  142. 5:49here also felt very low compared to what
  143. 5:52we would have wanted. So, this being
  144. 5:54non-sensored and very weak definitely
  145. 5:57gets the lowest score. The HPI, on the
  146. 5:59other hand, brushless, sensored, and
  147. 6:02with a program card, you can actually
  148. 6:04unlock the turbo and the boost in the
  149. 6:07ESC. You end up never really needing to
  150. 6:10upgrade this motor and ESC. Once you
  151. 6:13what you buy it out of the box, you do a
  152. 6:15couple little tuning things to it, never
  153. 6:17touch it again. So, the HPI is the clear
  154. 6:20winner here. Next up is the transmitters
  155. 6:23that the cars come with. And this is a
  156. 6:25big differentiator between them. The MST
  157. 6:28[snorts]
  158. 6:29is disappointing us by still giving us
  159. 6:31the same controller that has literally
  160. 6:34been around for decades at this point.
  161. 6:37It basically lets you turn it on and
  162. 6:39off. It lets you do steering and
  163. 6:40throttle and some other little basic
  164. 6:42features, and that's practically it. One
  165. 6:45of the first things you will do to this
  166. 6:48car is replace that transmitter. The
  167. 6:50Ralaro is a little bit better. It has
  168. 6:53lamp controls. It says it has a gyro
  169. 6:55button, and technically, from the
  170. 6:58controller, you can, through a bunch
  171. 7:00[snorts] of gyrations of holding the
  172. 7:02steering this way and doing that and
  173. 7:03doing that and hit that button while you
  174. 7:05power it on, you can actually control
  175. 7:07the gyro gain from the controller.
  176. 7:09Technically, yes, but
  177. 7:11it's a pain in the tail. After the motor
  178. 7:14and ESC, probably the first thing I'm
  179. 7:16going to do on this car is upgrade the
  180. 7:18controller. Only one that provides a
  181. 7:20transmitter that I may legitimately
  182. 7:23never upgrade is the HPI. It has all of
  183. 7:26the controls and everything that you
  184. 7:28would need here on it, including the
  185. 7:31ability to adjust the gyro gain straight
  186. 7:33from this by just bumping it back and
  187. 7:35forth. It's [snorts] not as nice as a
  188. 7:37Futaba, it's not as nice as a Flysky
  189. 7:39Noble. Those are all going to be better,
  190. 7:41and maybe eventually
  191. 7:43you will upgrade to a better radio, but
  192. 7:46this one would be it's a very low on my
  193. 7:48list of things that need to get
  194. 7:50upgraded. The HPI clearly wins in the
  195. 7:54transmitter category. Up next is the
  196. 7:56servo and gyro combination. If we start
  197. 7:59with the Ralaro, the servo in it I've
  198. 8:00had no issues with it. It feels
  199. 8:02powerful. It feels fast enough. Servo
  200. 8:05seems fine. Gyro is I believe it's
  201. 8:08Ralaro branded, but I do believe it's
  202. 8:10actually a Dumbo RC at the base. And
  203. 8:13what's funny is if we jump over here to
  204. 8:15the HPI,
  205. 8:16I'm pretty sure that's exact same gyro.
  206. 8:19Little bit of different form function.
  207. 8:21Some HPI stickers stuck on it, but I'm
  208. 8:23pretty sure
  209. 8:25both of those came out of the Dumbo RC
  210. 8:27factory. So these actually have the same
  211. 8:29gyro in them. They're both good gyros
  212. 8:31actually. Compared to what used to come
  213. 8:33in the ready to run drift cars, both of
  214. 8:35these are dramatically better and offer
  215. 8:38a decent amount of tuning that you can
  216. 8:40do with them straight on the vehicle.
  217. 8:43But I never knew I'd actually really say
  218. 8:44this one day, the MST actually wins this
  219. 8:48category. It used to be that the MST
  220. 8:50ready to run gyros, the LSD, were quite
  221. 8:54bad. But this MGX is really good, set up
  222. 8:58very nice out of the factory, drifts
  223. 9:00well straight out of the box. MST
  224. 9:02clearly wins the servo and gyro
  225. 9:05category. As you're going to want to
  226. 9:07start tuning and adjusting the
  227. 9:09alignments and setups of the car. So how
  228. 9:12adjustable is the car from the factory?
  229. 9:16And MST again, a little bit
  230. 9:17disappointing here, fixed links in many
  231. 9:21locations on it. Has a few different
  232. 9:24alterations that you can do to both the
  233. 9:25gearbox and the motor position. Some of
  234. 9:28the steering has some opportunity. It
  235. 9:30even does have an adjustable wheelbase
  236. 9:33to the chassis, which is super cool. But
  237. 9:35when it comes to making the car drive
  238. 9:38differently and being able to tune the
  239. 9:40alignment, one of the first things
  240. 9:42you're going to do is drop a decent
  241. 9:43amount of money on upgrade turnbuckles
  242. 9:46and fix all of these to where they are
  243. 9:49adjustable. And when you compare that to
  244. 9:51the Relarvo that has full adjustability
  245. 9:54on all aspects of the alignment, same
  246. 9:57with the HPI has full adjustability on
  247. 10:00all aspects of the alignment plus crazy
  248. 10:03motor positions and things along that
  249. 10:05line.
  250. 10:06It's really hard to kind of support the
  251. 10:08MST here. Both the Relarvo and the HPI
  252. 10:12both get the nod here. They're both
  253. 10:13doing great. This next category I might
  254. 10:16make a few of you mad with. We'll see
  255. 10:18what you have to say here. It's all
  256. 10:21about the factory setup. And what I'm
  257. 10:23going to say about that is how quality
  258. 10:25is the car setup before it arrives at
  259. 10:28your doorstep so that you can be
  260. 10:30confident slapping a battery in it,
  261. 10:32going out there and driving it, and that
  262. 10:33it will perform well. This MST, put a
  263. 10:36battery in it and you can literally take
  264. 10:38it out and just go drive laps and get in
  265. 10:41people's doors immediately. The car just
  266. 10:44drives well straight out of the box.
  267. 10:46This is accredited a lot to the fact
  268. 10:49that MST, in theory, what they say is
  269. 10:51that they drive every single one of
  270. 10:53these around a track before it gets
  271. 10:55stuck in the box. So, that tells me that
  272. 10:58someone who knows what they're doing
  273. 11:00ensures that everything's working
  274. 11:02properly as kind of a final quality
  275. 11:04control check before it goes out the
  276. 11:06door. The HPI is just ever so barely
  277. 11:10barely I would rank it slightly behind
  278. 11:13the MST.
  279. 11:14This HPI, again, with all the proper
  280. 11:17electronics from the Flux model in it
  281. 11:19does great out of the box, but what we
  282. 11:21found is there is some tweaking to like
  283. 11:24the gyro setup and things like that that
  284. 11:26you would probably want to do before you
  285. 11:29really take it to to track the first
  286. 11:30time. In contrast with the experience
  287. 11:33that I had, which may not be the same
  288. 11:36experience from everybody,
  289. 11:38>> [snorts]
  290. 11:38>> the Ralar Lo left a little bit to be
  291. 11:40desired here. As an example, when I took
  292. 11:44mine out of the box, one of the
  293. 11:45fundamental things about an RC drift car
  294. 11:47is the front alignment, and it actually
  295. 11:50had a closed or negative Ackermann,
  296. 11:52where the front tires were actually
  297. 11:54crossing each other at the drift angle,
  298. 11:56and as you got over to lock, very
  299. 11:58difficult to drive straight out of the
  300. 11:59box. And it required me and some folks
  301. 12:01at the track to actually do some tweaks
  302. 12:04to the alignment in order to get it to
  303. 12:07drive well, which means if you got one
  304. 12:09that might not have been assembled quite
  305. 12:12right, just like I did, but you're very
  306. 12:14new to RC drifting, you might struggle
  307. 12:17and you might be frustrated. This next
  308. 12:19category is upgrades needed. And what I
  309. 12:21mean by this is
  310. 12:23a couple weeks, months, whatever into
  311. 12:26owning it, how much money are you
  312. 12:28probably spending to get this car to
  313. 12:31perform even better? Is it basically
  314. 12:34good to go? Are you going to be throwing
  315. 12:36additional hundreds and hundreds of
  316. 12:38dollars at it? Transmitter is really
  317. 12:40bad. Turnbuckles are going to be needed.
  318. 12:43>> [snorts]
  319. 12:43>> You're probably going to upgrade this
  320. 12:46ESC rather quickly because, again, it's
  321. 12:49censored, but it doesn't have turbo and
  322. 12:51boost. Now, the good news is should
  323. 12:53should be able to just keep the motor,
  324. 12:54but you're going to be upgrading that
  325. 12:56ESC. But you're going to also have You
  326. 12:58notice these yellow parts that are on
  327. 13:00here. Those are actually 3D printed body
  328. 13:03mounts that I have designed for this
  329. 13:04chassis. What I don't like about this is
  330. 13:07from the factory, it actually just comes
  331. 13:09with standard body posts, and even
  332. 13:11though it has a really cool-looking
  333. 13:13body, they want you to drill holes in it
  334. 13:15and use body clips and all that in the
  335. 13:17body post to mount the body. It's not
  336. 13:19the 1990s anymore. Every drift car
  337. 13:22should come with a magnet body mounts
  338. 13:24out of the factory. The Ralar Lo is
  339. 13:26going to end up being the same way. Like
  340. 13:28I said, I'm probably going to put a
  341. 13:29different transmitter on it. I'm
  342. 13:31probably going to end up putting a
  343. 13:34different motor and an ESC on it since
  344. 13:36it's not censored at all from the
  345. 13:38factory. But, I want you to also notice
  346. 13:40that these are not the factory tires and
  347. 13:43wheels that are on it. It's because
  348. 13:45Relarlow from the factory has an oddball
  349. 13:47tire wheel diameter and width on this
  350. 13:51car, which means you can't fit your
  351. 13:53track specific tires on the car from the
  352. 13:57factory. So, before you ever take this
  353. 13:59thing to the track, you're going to have
  354. 14:01to put different tires and wheels on it.
  355. 14:03So, that leaves us with the HPI. And I
  356. 14:06already mentioned, I'm pretty happy with
  357. 14:08the transmitter. I already mentioned,
  358. 14:10really happy with the ESC and the motor
  359. 14:13back here. I think the thing that I'm
  360. 14:14probably going to do number one for this
  361. 14:17car is the servo. I think
  362. 14:20from the experience and the testing that
  363. 14:22I've already done, replacing this servo
  364. 14:24with an upgraded unit really transforms
  365. 14:26how the car drives. That's basically
  366. 14:28[snorts]
  367. 14:29all it needs. Gyro's good, transmitter
  368. 14:32works, ESC and motor works. It has all
  369. 14:34the adjustability. I think this is one
  370. 14:36of those cars that you can dang near
  371. 14:38just about leave stock and drive. Clear
  372. 14:41winner in the upgrades needed category.
  373. 14:44Next category, body design. So, you
  374. 14:47could just say at first glance that is
  375. 14:50beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
  376. 14:51That's a subjective
  377. 14:53judgment. Maybe you just really hate
  378. 14:55Mustangs and so you think this body is
  379. 14:57about as ugly as it can get. But, if we
  380. 14:59think about it in objective terms, does
  381. 15:02it have things like over fenders already
  382. 15:04molded in? Yes. Does it [snorts] have
  383. 15:07lights in it as an example? No. Yes and
  384. 15:10some crazy light kit that does
  385. 15:12everything. So, there's [snorts]
  386. 15:13definitely a differentiation when it
  387. 15:15comes there. The fact that I had to make
  388. 15:17my own body mounts for this car, if you
  389. 15:20use the factory ones, you're going to
  390. 15:21literally have body posts sticking out
  391. 15:23of the hood here. Both of these cars
  392. 15:25come with magnet body mounts. Both of
  393. 15:28these cars come with a plethora of
  394. 15:31lights and hard plastics all around
  395. 15:34them, all included with the controllers,
  396. 15:37with everything from the factory. And
  397. 15:39this body ends up being super plain in
  398. 15:42comparison without even a plastic grill
  399. 15:46as an example with literally a sticker
  400. 15:48down here.
  401. 15:49Uh you end up clearly the MST from a
  402. 15:52body design loses. This HPI, I think, is
  403. 15:56absolutely awesome and I would have said
  404. 15:58was best in class of any ready to run
  405. 16:01that's ever been done
  406. 16:03until this one came out.
  407. 16:04>> [laughter]
  408. 16:05>> They absolutely went the next level. Not
  409. 16:08only does it have the lights, you can
  410. 16:09program the lights to do different
  411. 16:11things with a click of a button. It's
  412. 16:13got the massive wing. It even has
  413. 16:14backfire exhaust and everything on it.
  414. 16:17Uh roll cage that you can see through it
  415. 16:19is not technically part of the body, but
  416. 16:21kind of part of that whole look and
  417. 16:22beauty of it.
  418. 16:24Uh it really has set a completely new
  419. 16:26bar for how scale an RC drift car can be
  420. 16:30out of the box. Kudos to Ralaro. Clearly
  421. 16:33winning the how much effort went into
  422. 16:36your body category here. Next one that's
  423. 16:38a little intriguing is parts
  424. 16:40availability. The MST has a huge list of
  425. 16:45factory MST parts that you can get from
  426. 16:47a wide range of distributors including
  427. 16:50both the MST parts themselves, but also
  428. 16:52upgrade parts. You can do all sorts of
  429. 16:55stuff with this car. HPI is I think
  430. 16:59we're still kind of trying to see where
  431. 17:00it's going to land. For me personally, I
  432. 17:03can get all the factory parts for it
  433. 17:05plus the impending factory upgrades from
  434. 17:08a retailer like AMain Hobbies. I can get
  435. 17:11some of it, I think, even from my local
  436. 17:13hobby store. So, So, parts availability
  437. 17:16is good, but the aftermarket hasn't
  438. 17:18picked up on it quite as much as the
  439. 17:20MST. I think as this car matures a
  440. 17:23little bit more, it's going to catch up
  441. 17:25with the MST. It's just not there quite
  442. 17:27yet. The Ralar we're going to have to
  443. 17:30just see how it goes. This is brand new
  444. 17:32as I am filming this. What I have seen
  445. 17:35from some of the other Ralar vehicles
  446. 17:37that I have owned is that they end up
  447. 17:39producing parts for it, but that ends up
  448. 17:42being it. Uh a state side stock parts
  449. 17:46availability can be hit or miss.
  450. 17:49Uh they do get to sell some of them on
  451. 17:50Amazon, but really I've struggled to
  452. 17:52find replacement parts. If I do [snorts]
  453. 17:54order them, obviously they're coming
  454. 17:56from
  455. 17:57uh Ralar themselves with some shipping,
  456. 18:00with some taxes, and things like that on
  457. 18:01them. So, [snorts] it really has
  458. 18:03probably the least part support of that.
  459. 18:06It's not necessarily a knock on that
  460. 18:07Ralar is doing anything bad. It's just
  461. 18:09that these have been more popular and
  462. 18:12have more support broadly within uh the
  463. 18:16RC drift like retail realm. Last
  464. 18:19category may absolutely blow all the
  465. 18:23other categories out of the water
  466. 18:25depending on your opinion, which is how
  467. 18:28does it perform straight out of the box?
  468. 18:30So, what I did is I took all three of
  469. 18:33these cars in the exact form that you
  470. 18:36see them now, practically as stock as
  471. 18:38you could get. HPI, literally nothing
  472. 18:41done to it except for a couple tweaks to
  473. 18:43the gyro settings. The RM-01D 4, uh
  474. 18:46nothing done to it except for the body
  475. 18:48mounts so that I don't have body posts
  476. 18:49sticking out. The Ralar, different
  477. 18:51wheels so that I can fit the proper
  478. 18:53track tires to it, slight tweak to the
  479. 18:56shock preload to make sure that the
  480. 18:58front had enough responsiveness, and
  481. 19:00then eventually as we talked about some
  482. 19:03alignment changes to make it actually
  483. 19:05drift well. But, it wasn't just me that
  484. 19:07drove them.
  485. 19:08Shout out to the folks at Riverside
  486. 19:10Drift Club. Thank you, folks, for being
  487. 19:12awesome. Bunch of members came out and
  488. 19:15we all just shared the transmitters and
  489. 19:17everybody got a turn driving every
  490. 19:19single car. Shout out specifically to
  491. 19:21Koa. He was out there kind of leading
  492. 19:24the train a couple times so we would
  493. 19:26have kind of a repeatable person to kind
  494. 19:28of judge how the performance of the cars
  495. 19:30were versus a baseline. The results of
  496. 19:32this ended up being highly entertaining.
  497. 19:35The RMX needed a number of tweaks to
  498. 19:37made it make it drive smoothly around
  499. 19:39the track to where you can make laps.
  500. 19:41Once we did that, it was really fun to
  501. 19:44drive. What we noticed is of the three
  502. 19:46cars, maybe because of the big weight,
  503. 19:49maybe because of the underpowered
  504. 19:51system, not exactly sure exactly why
  505. 19:53yet, it was clearly the slowest. It was
  506. 19:57the one that had trouble keeping up with
  507. 20:00everybody else that was out there on
  508. 20:02track. The RMX 4 felt way underpowered,
  509. 20:05but it was the one car that you could
  510. 20:08just take out and it was comfortable to
  511. 20:10drive almost immediately and everybody
  512. 20:13within one lap could basically be making
  513. 20:15laps, hitting all the marks, doing
  514. 20:17everything that they wanted. A little
  515. 20:19slow, little less power, probably some
  516. 20:22other tweaks, transmitter upgrade, some
  517. 20:23things like that were required, but it
  518. 20:25was probably the easiest to drive
  519. 20:28straight out of the box. And the HPI
  520. 20:30came away as best power delivery without
  521. 20:34a doubt, easy to drive, a little bit not
  522. 20:38as smooth to drive with the gyro as the
  523. 20:40MST. So again, that Dumbo gyro that's in
  524. 20:43it, not quite as good maybe as the MST.
  525. 20:46A few tweaks required and it'll be
  526. 20:48great, but you could tell it was like
  527. 20:50just behind it. So to put it to the
  528. 20:52final test of out of the box
  529. 20:54performance, everybody that was there at
  530. 20:57the track, I asked them that after
  531. 20:58driving all the cars, I said, "Which one
  532. 21:01would you give to a brand new person as
  533. 21:04they walked in the door? Which is the
  534. 21:06one that you would recommend? And what
  535. 21:08was very interesting, Mr. Anthony, the
  536. 21:10owner of the whole place, said the
  537. 21:11Ralaro because he could sell them a box
  538. 21:13that would have a battery and a charger
  539. 21:16and everything in it, and the folks
  540. 21:17would be there to help them get the
  541. 21:19front end sorted out, and someone could
  542. 21:21have a beautiful-looking car that maybe
  543. 21:24didn't perform super awesome,
  544. 21:27but they could have it in one box,
  545. 21:28everything ready to run, and they didn't
  546. 21:30have to worry about buying another
  547. 21:31battery and charger or anything to go
  548. 21:32with it. A lot of other folks said that
  549. 21:35MST is the way to go. They know how to
  550. 21:37make it upgrade. They don't care that it
  551. 21:40was the most expensive car to start with
  552. 21:42because 6 months later you've forgotten
  553. 21:45the purchase price, and all you care
  554. 21:46about is are you in someone's door or
  555. 21:48not? The with the clear upgrade path,
  556. 21:51the known performance for this, a lot of
  557. 21:53people said they'd rather take this one.
  558. 21:56I would say the bulk of folks, though,
  559. 21:58leaned to the HPI. More folks said the
  560. 22:02power delivery is better, the driving
  561. 22:04dynamic is sharper, everything is just
  562. 22:07that little bit better on the HPI, and
  563. 22:10they appreciated the less upgrade path
  564. 22:12that it would probably need in the long
  565. 22:14run. So, which one of this really wins
  566. 22:17the out-of-the-box performance category?
  567. 22:20For me personally, it's the HPI, but
  568. 22:23there's an argument to be made about how
  569. 22:25the MST might be easier to drive for a
  570. 22:29brand new person compared to the HPI. It
  571. 22:32needs a little bit more of a skilled
  572. 22:34hand potentially to get the most out of
  573. 22:36it, but the clear frustrating point that
  574. 22:38folks had was the Ralaro's performance
  575. 22:40out of the box. Not only did you have to
  576. 22:43tweak the alignment to get it to work
  577. 22:45right. Overall, the car was just slower.
  578. 22:48If somebody new got it in the same way
  579. 22:51that I got it out of my box, it would be
  580. 22:54dramatically more frustrating than
  581. 22:56either one of these two. But as we've
  582. 22:57been doing this video, you've seen that
  583. 22:59I've I've color-coding and kind of
  584. 23:01ranking. Green is good, yellow is kind
  585. 23:04of in the middle, and the kind of the
  586. 23:05orange-ish is maybe a detractor from the
  587. 23:08vehicle. So, if what I do is I add up
  588. 23:11all the greens as a plus one and all the
  589. 23:13detractors, all the oranges, as a minus
  590. 23:16one,
  591. 23:17the winner here becomes very, very
  592. 23:20clear. When you take all the positives
  593. 23:22and the negatives of the Relar Lo and
  594. 23:24you add them all together, sum it up, it
  595. 23:26gets a total score of two. MST actually
  596. 23:30stays in the negative side, so it
  597. 23:32actually gets scored the lowest out of
  598. 23:35all of them, and the HPI ends up at a
  599. 23:37seven. So, the HPI clearly wins the day.
  600. 23:40So, with all that to say,
  601. 23:43which one should you buy? Do you want
  602. 23:45the best mix of performance, price,
  603. 23:49and looks?
  604. 23:51You get the HPI. Do you want the one
  605. 23:53that's just the absolute easiest to
  606. 23:55drive out of the box and probably half
  607. 23:58the people at your local track will have
  608. 24:00some parts for?
  609. 24:02You want the MST. And do you want the
  610. 24:04one that just looks absolutely the
  611. 24:06coolest and is going to require some
  612. 24:08tinkering and everything and really you
  613. 24:10want to got to dive in and turn some
  614. 24:11wrenches and make the most of it?
  615. 24:14Then you want the Relar Lo. I think at
  616. 24:16this time, any one of these can be a
  617. 24:19good choice depending on your goals,
  618. 24:22where you want to drive, how you want to
  619. 24:24drive, and do you want more scale, do
  620. 24:27you want more performance, do you want a
  621. 24:29mix of both? What do you want? That's
  622. 24:32It's just It's up to you, but I think
  623. 24:33all three of these can make a good logic
  624. 24:35sense depending on what your goals are.
  625. 24:37Now, it's your turn. Did I judge any of
  626. 24:41these categories wrong? Did I clearly
  627. 24:44miss a whole category? Did I just miss
  628. 24:47an aspect of it that would change how it
  629. 24:50scores? Let me know. That's what the
  630. 24:52comment section is for. Go down there,
  631. 24:53tell me which ones you think I missed or
  632. 24:57that I got wrong. And then also let me
  633. 24:59know if you are new yourself, which one
  634. 25:02of these camps do you fall in, which one
  635. 25:04makes the most sense for you. If you are
  636. 25:06experienced and you've been around, but
  637. 25:08you're going to recommend some drift
  638. 25:10cars to a friend or somebody getting new
  639. 25:13somebody new getting started, which one
  640. 25:15would you recommend? Please let me know
  641. 25:17down in the video comments below that as
  642. 25:19well. I'd be really curious to hear what
  643. 25:22you all think. And then lastly, if
  644. 25:24you've made up your mind and you know
  645. 25:25which one of these you want, there's a
  646. 25:26link down in the video description to
  647. 25:28each one of them, the ones that I
  648. 25:30recommend. If you go down there and you
  649. 25:32buy them, they're affiliate links. So,
  650. 25:34you pay the exact same amount, I get a
  651. 25:36small cut, which helps cover the cost of
  652. 25:39this channel, and I really do appreciate
  653. 25:41it. If you want to see anything more
  654. 25:42about these cars, I actually have
  655. 25:44dedicated playlists for the HPI, for the
  656. 25:46RMX, and for the Relardo. Those are all
  657. 25:49on my channel. You can see each one of
  658. 25:52them, all the modifications and all the
  659. 25:53tuning and all the driving and
  660. 25:55everything that I've done with them, so
  661. 25:56that you can dig in a little bit deeper
  662. 25:58to each one. So, I really appreciate you
  663. 26:00watching. Thank you for watching, and I
  664. 26:02hope to see you in one of those videos.
  665. 26:04Goodbye.

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