FTX Kanyon 4x4 RTR 1: 10 XL Trail Crawler

This is a 1:10 scale crawler but described as XL size. And it is more like a 1:8 scale in reality ... A brilliant R/C vehicle and you get a quality machine for its low price point with lots of spares and upgrades readily available. Brilliant !!

Honestly I cannot understate how monstrously big this is. I love it. A lot of the volume is admittedly the boxy 4x4 style body shell. The main chasis is a dense plastic ladderframe style cage, and onto this is bolted a large steel folded plate at each end to extend the overall length. The mounting of these plates is notoriously clumsy and easily broken so it's almost essential to strengthen this if you're going to use it outdoors in my opinion (easily search for 'ftx kanyon chassis mod' for several guides). Other than this, this beast comes out of the box literally plug-and-play ready. I was impressed that it took less than 5 mins to unbox and have it running. I also really appreciate the fact that everything is relatively standardised and open too, so it's working out well as my first RC modding project. I can bang a brushless motor and ESC in, but I don't HAVE to yet, I can just test the limits of this and do it when I want to later. The servo is standard and easily accessible, the oil shocks work extremely well. Everything is perfectly modular, and I was really pleased that the choice of assembly out of the box is more than enough to have a fun time straight away still. It's not the fastest beast, and that works well for me because we wanted to have a fun time with it in sight, and not just whizz it off into the distance and back, so the torque-forward way the power is delivered was just what I wanted. The ESC can only be changed with a nifty button press to switch to protected LIPO mode, rather than NIMH, if you have LIPOs already you dont need to rip the ESC out in order to use them. To swap between modes:- With it turned off, hold the small white program button on the ESC (down next to the blue heatsink).- Switch on whilst holding, let go after one beep for NIMH/unprotected mode. Let go after two beeps for LiPo/protected mode.- After letting go of the button, the three note tune should play, then turn the whole thing off and on again and away we go.

so had a 1/10 outback bought traxxas parts they were to big bought a 1/10 trx4 that was much bigger kid wanted this one my god its HUGE compared to the trx4 & collosal compared to the outbacki thought it was a standardised scaleso the truck well watch "ftx kanyon issues" fix the chassis weakness change the motor to a 35t (hence 4 not 5 stars) omg what a machine wish id saved a tonne of cash & bought one instead of the trx4 (stands me at around 4 figures) well worth every penny loads of hop up parts 2.2 tyres & wheels plenty of aluminium parts loads of videos showing it in action how to upgrade too

The media could not be loaded. It's a great machine very powerful and much larger than I thought it would be I love it

The media could not be loaded. Best rock climbing car out good price for what you getIn the video I have converted it in to 4 wheel steering

Love it, I love the way it looks and drives. I have modified the chassis with 15mm angle aluminium ( there are many you tube videos on this)

Rear wheel fell off on first use. Did not work after put back on. Refused refund, terrible service. Still not resolved a year later. Amazon no bloody help.

Fully working RC crawler.