LDRC 1899 Skyline Review

Hi guys,
This metal body beast is a very interesting entry level RC. For what you get, the price is pretty fair. The metal body looks great, the electronics are pretty good and it drives quite nicely. I would say it is an improvement over the plastic body cars but they have different upsides, so it isn't 100% cut and dried (big diff is it generally costs more although I got it on sale for $67 cdn which is only about 8-10 bucks more than a plastic body car). I wasn't sure about this car at first, so much so that I had trouble articulating what I was seeing. I decided to leave my waffling in the vid because anyone who already has one of the plastic body LDRC cars will probably feel some of the same contradicting emotions when they first drive one of these. Biggest problem with mine is that the LEDs don't work properly, most likely due to a wiring problem from the factory.
If you like the old Nissan Skyline body, this is a pretty sweet car and the value is good because it looks almost as good as some of the expensive models you can get and it is an RC car so you can drive it. There are also some nice chrome wheels out there to jazz it up a bit.
No link because the deal I got is no longer available. The going rate is about $90-120 on AliExpress.
Do you drive to wrench or do you wrench to drive?

[@snorrevonflake]

You could have tried to run it without the body. Since i want to change the body anyway - if the gyro on this so good that i dont have to change it this would speak vor this over the RX7 ones.

[@drivetowrench2709]

I did, there's a note - less weight, more twitchy gyro like the plastic cars, so I'm not sure the gyro is different. Might be that the servo is a little weak. The 1899 chassis is super stiff so it's hard to test without the body on. You need the stiffer springs/sway bars to run the heavy body, the plastic body springs are way too soft