(water raging)
- [RCSparks] What a beautiful day
in the neighborhood, my friends.
A beautiful day indeed for me to unveil the Traxxas
TRX4 Mercedes and G Wagon.
Look at this behemoth.
I absolutely love it.
I've been waiting for this to roll out
to North America,
and I am lucky to have my hands on one so early.
Look at this, metal skid plate on the front.
Mercedes symbol on the front, looking choice.
I didn't install a few LEDs in here
with the Traxxas just like yet.
Just so I know when I go off trail here in a few minutes.
It's gonna be a little bit shadier.
I did add some easy pull pins,
but man, I gotta say, this thing is absolutely spectacular.
All stock, all around.
I think we should get it out on the trail
and see what it can do.
Way we go in low gear, everything's locked.
My first crawl, right into a huge boulder.
This portal axle's clearing it easily though.
(water raging)
What a beauty.
No snorkel on this yet,
so I'm not gonna be going deep.
Well, and it's too pretty.
I'm a little nervous of scratching it up. (laughs)
Look at this shot for scale epicness, aye?
Just incredible.
Not an overly aggressive tire, you could say,
but definitely one that I think
is gonna have plenty attraction.
(water raging)
Just looks amazing.
(water raging)
A lotta people ask me,
"What's the best scale truck to get?"
And I gotta say, the TRX4 lineup.
You know, it is pretty darn amazing.
There are many leaders out there,
but I put the TRX4 near the top, that's for sure.
(engine roaring) (water raging)
A little bit of water to wash the tires.
Back it up.
(engine roaring)
Oh, did I get hung up?
Hah.
Choose a different line, an inch over.
(engine roaring)
Nice and slow.
Like I took out my dad's car,
and I wasn't supposed to.
I didn't ask. (laughs)
Drive it like I took it out without asking.
Not that I'm encouraging that.
Just how I'm driving mine.
(engine roaring)
That sun is startin' to get lower in the sky
in the afternoon.
I thought it would be a nice break for a change
to do an afternoon video.
Such a nice vehicle.
The sun does well on it's side.
Look at that articulation.
Box doc.
Cannot believe how much this scale world
has taken off in the last 10 years.
Really, it's just phenomenal.
And the amount of creativity we're seeing from fabricators
and the manufacturers to products they're coming out with,
is you know, it's unlimited.
(engine roaring)
We'll see how I fare here with choosing my line.
(engine roaring)
Not bad, a little bit more.
Wanna make sure to be all locked up there.
(engine roaring)
Beautiful clearance in the valley area.
(engine roaring)
Into the shadow.
That was easy.
(engine roaring)
Okay, so here is something that is very hard
to translate on camera.
This area here
is exceptionally steep going up to the top.
I've never made it going up.
A few times coming down I have, but if you fail here,
you immediately fall down the Abyss,
like it ain't easy if it goes down into the woodpile there,
and there's not a lot to grab
to come right back up. (chuckles)
But I think today, if I win, excellent.
If I fail, not so good.
It's such a nice paint job.
(squeaking)
Low year.
See what I did there, low gear.
(engine roaring)
I think the crawl ability is definitely possible
as long as I approach this straight on here.
(engine roaring)
Oh, straight on (laughs)
on an angle as it can get.
(engine roaring)
It's going to need some real speed.
(engine roaring)
Oh, come on.
(engine roaring)
Oh, I chickened out, because failure is so close.
(engine roaring)
Ooh.
(engine roaring)
There it is, there it is.
Whoa, it wants to tip over right there.
(engine roaring)
Come on, failure is not an option.
Everyone is watching.
Yes, come on.
(grunting)
Okay, I do have a little bit of margin for error,
the top it.
(engine roaring)
Yeah.
Yeah!
I avoided failure in front of everybody.
And I don't have to go down there.
Okay, let's bring it down.
And I mean down.
Real far.
Per nice and slow will win.
Let that drag break on the ESCN motor do its job.
It's just rolling neutral right now.
Just making sure if I wheel placement.
(engine roaring)
Easily done.
Always watching my wheel placement.
Into the smallest amount of mud. (laughs)
(engine roaring)
It's all right.
I don't wanna get this beautiful pain job done yet anyway.
Be that I can straddle through it.
(engine roaring)
And then everybody boos,
and then I just freakin' give her,
(engine roaring)
and everyone goes, "Yeah!"
At least we got some mud on the side.
Well, just a eenie, weenie, tiny little bit.
Looks like someone splashed me when they drove by.
(engine roaring)
Look at this
Straight up to the trials area.
(engine roaring)
Big hole.
Just gonna try to hop right over this area.
Put it in high gear.
(engine roaring)
Ooh, little rougher than I wanted.
Still, same outcome.
(engine roaring)
Back it up a bit.
(engine roaring)
Hop over.
I always crawl with this saying in mind:
"As slow as possible, as fast as necessary."
And it really has, you know, it helped my crawl ability.
And always look ahead on the trail,
whether it's full-size or small-scale.
(engine roaring)
(car crashing)
Oh!
That's beautiful paint.
Rubbin' a little bit there.
I see.
(engine roaring)
We're through, we're through.
(engine roaring)
Beautiful great run for the trail today.
(water raging)
And you know there's no way in heck,
I'm not gonna end this
with a gray water crossing, of course.
Thanks for joining me today, guys, on my RC adventure.
You can see that my Mercedes G Wagon
is certainly just that, all in style,
even as it crosses over the creek.
(engine roaring)
Let's wash those tires off.
In fact, let's put it in high gear and wash those tires off.
(engine roaring)
Get some real power goin' there.
That's on a 3S life battery today, guys.
Everything gettin' washed out there.
That rim looking absolutely fantastic.
Let's see if I can back it up.
(engine roaring)
There we go.
Choose a slightly different line.
(engine roaring)
Let it fight its way through
and onto the next RC adventure.
Alright, so on my way back,
I have this massive incline you guys can't see.
It looks just like a field, I get it.
It goes way up.
People have even tried to step stairs into it,
because it's so steep.
And it's multi-leveled up there,
and then you gotta keep up, feet, keep on going.
Best thing about the TRX4, one of them,
is that I can put it on cruise control.
Check this out.
Just turning up my multi-function button,
and it'll start going forward right.
I set it on cruise control.
And all I have to do is steer it,
and it'll give itself power.
Now I can turn up the speed if I want.
And it'll just crawl with me.
Locked, unlocked, it don't matter.
Straight up.
Like (chuckles), like that kind of step.
I better pay attention to driving.
(engine roaring)
I love how this thing climbs.
And barely any effort for me.
(engine roaring)
It's almost like taking your pup for a walk.
Except this is legal.
And I don't have to pick up.
(honking)
(man laughing)
Okay, here's one of the hardest spots.
It just goes vertical here.
So I'm gonna try and go around.
Still no throttle.
It's doing its own thing.
(breathing heavily)
It's going faster than I am, ironically.
Hooh!
Here's the first stop.
Turn it down before it goes off the edge.
(breathing heavily)
And it goes away down.
Cool!
So there it is, guys.
The Traxxas G Wagon.
What do you think?
Pretty gnarly, aye?
Also pretty darn capable.
I can't believe how far trail trucks have come.
The technology is fantastic.
Anyway, thanks all for joining me today.
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