This Rally Datsun 240Z Is The Coolest RC Car I've Ever Seen

Remember when you were a kid, and remote-control cars were cheap plastic toys that were great fun until they quickly and inevitably fell apart into unfixable shards? Well, those days are over. Now, RC cars are high-dollar enthusiast machines, built to look incredible and tuned for ultimate performance. Case in point: This Kyosho EP Fazer Datsun 240Z.

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The Fazer is a stock chassis from Kyosho, one that’s been put under every body from WRC STIs to Hakosuka GT-Rs to drift Mustangs. The Fazer beneath this Datsun, however, is modified for rally use: Bigger lifted shocks, reinforced connecting parts, and a dust shield to keep the internal components free of dirt.

Atop that chassis, however, is the real beauty: The Kyosha 240Z body. It’s built to replicate the Z that won the 1971 East African Safari Rally, and it’s a nearly perfect match. The colors, the sponsors, the fog lights, everything is all there.

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The little RC Datsun, however, comes with some rally capabilities that the real car lacks. The Fazer chassis is four-wheel-drive, meaning the toy may well be quicker off the line than the six-cylinder car it replicates. In video, it looks properly quick for a little remote-control toy that can tool around your local park, woods, or whatever a “yard” is.

I’ve long liked the idea of high-spec RC cars — drift cars, particularly, pique my interest — but this Z is truly something special. Taking my all time favorite car body, dressing it up in full rally spec, and sitting it atop an RC chassis meant for off-road driving? Does anyone want to Venmo me $270 to try one of these out?