Radio controlled cars are available in all shapes and sizes but two main categories exist namely hobby and toy. One is not able to find hobby level rc cars on the same shelves as those for toy stores. There are amazing toy cars out there with amazing functionality and these include nitro rc cars. These are radio controlled cars modeled off existing real large size fuel vehicles. They boost interactive features found in real large size fuel vehicles and these features are a detailed interior, working lights and even radios that play mp3 tunes. If this sounds good for you, you can start on the radio controlled cars found off the shelf of your local toy store to get that feeling of riding real large sized vehicles. Once there, one may decide how far he/she wants to progress on the hobby.
Getting to know better the specifications of your radio controlled car e.g. the speed etc., one may want to have a taste of it all the way to the end. Starting out on a radio controlled car such as nitro rc cars, one has to make better decisions the first of which can be deciding on the ready to race or build your own type of model. Build your own kind of radio controlled cars are available in kits. When decided on this pre-fab kind of vehicle, a person needs to make sure that parts in the kit are replaceable, interchangeable and replaceable. This is because it is disappointing to build the whole thing up together on a single hard to find part only for it to break. One would as a result be unable to fix the car.
The hobby radio controlled rc cars including the nitro rc cars come in an array of shapes and sizes which run on variety of power sources. The nitro rc cars are powered by nitro fuel while electric cars are powered by battery power. The radio controlled electric car batteries are available in the following categories: nickel metal hydride, nickel cadmium and lithium polymer cells. These require a simple charger for hook up but not opening anything up and pouring fuel in such as in nitro rc cars. Electric powered radio controlled cars can become just as complicated as gasoline and nitro powered radio controlled cars moving up the ladder. One has also the option of choosing between high performances brushless motors and traditional, cheap and easy to find brushed motors.
The most popular radio controlled cars are the nitro rc cars. They have glow plug engines that are tiny combustion engines just like those found in real large fuel vehicles but are smaller and simpler. Nitro rc cars run on fuel called nitro, which is a blended mixture of nitro methane, castor oil, synthetic oil and methanol. One of the good things about nitro powered radio controlled cars is that they are much less expensive compared to gas powered rc cars but it is their fuel that can keep the costs high. Either way, the consumer chooses the rc cars on the mode of performance, speed etc.