We know the Rage 2.0 was designed for fun, and the light oil/lack-of-foam combo does keep you on your toes in the rough. Combine light front damping with no foam in the tires, and well, the Rage 2.0 can get crazy in the whoops. Btw, the Rage 2.0 has tons of clearance, both front and rear, for those steeper take-offs and landings.īumps/Whoops: To get the style of steering that they were looking for, Kyosho had to go light on the damping up front. Landings were generally pleasant at lower heights (think below a foot off the ground), but when landing from larger jumps the suspension would bottom easily. Trigger inputs were not nearly as gnarly as a brushless truck, thus making it simpler to make mid-air corrections for newer drivers. For a brushed RTR, the Rage 2.0 tended to jump fairly level. Jumping: We felt that the Rage 2.0 we well mannered over jumps, leaving us very little to complain about. In both sweepers and tight corners, we felt that the Rage 2.0 had quite neutral steering, with more than sufficient turn-in at corner entry. At high speed the Rage is another 4wd that is a bit sensitive just off neutral, but otherwise it steered well. No, the Rage 2.0 won’t have the raw corner speed of something like one of their Ultima RB race buggies, but it does make it super easy for nearly anyone to make a nice arc around a corner. This limiting of corner speed helps make the Rage 2.0 easy to control for first time drivers. The lack of foams makes the Rage bounce around a bit more than a “race” style buggy, but more so it limits traction in corners. As such, it does not come with foam inserts inside its tires. Turning: Right up front we have to say that the Rage 2.0 is aimed at the “fun” side of our hobby. Battery charging was impeccably handled by a Hitec RDX1. Set-up Notes: For juice we used four AA MaxAmps cells in the transmitter, as well as one of their 2S 5250mAh LiPo packs to power the truck. Test Venues: Testing with the Rage took place at three of our local parks, plus our local (and extremely muddy) 1/8th scale off-road track. Test Drivers: We had our fairly usual crew of Iron “The Pirate” Mikeee, THE RC Kid, Robbie G., Jamie The Rookie, Hawaiian Chris, T-$$$, and yours truly. What’s Needed To Complete: The Rage 2.0 comes completely pre-built, but you’ll need to supply four AA batteries for the radio, plus a battery and charger for the truck.īuild Quality: After closely checking the gear mesh, various bolts, the wheel nuts, and the shocks, we didn’t find a single fault with the assembly quality on the Kyosho. However, there are a good number of other 1/10th brushed/RTR/bash-vehicles on the market like the brushed Traxxas Rustler 4×4, ECX makes several, dittos for ARRMA, etc. OK, so it doesn’t look like a moon buggy anymore, it has some scale appearance to it, so maybe a rock racer’ish look? Hey, we dig its original look, it’s just hard to put it into a “category”. Primary Competition: Ummmmmmm, imagine me scratching my head right now. Runtime (measured by BSRC on 2S 5250): 19 minutes Top Speed (measured by BSRC on 2S 5250): 25 mph Speed Controller: Brushed, 60 amps, waterproof, LiPo capable Unboxing Pictures: BigSquidRC Unboxes The Rage 2.0 We have been thrashing a Rage 2.0 for several weeks, here is what we found out… Building upon their previous platform, the 2.0 gets more of a scale look, plus a simplified chassis design. The original Rage was very well received by us, as well as many others, so for 2019 the Kyosho crew bolted up a number of upgrades. Kyosho has long been known for building rc vehicles for both the track and cul-de-sac, with their latest bash machine being the Rage 2.0. Some rc cars are made to win world championships, others strictly for backyard fun.
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