As Traxxas’ main entry into the crawler world, the TRX-4 is a proven favorite that has stood the test of time, not to mention many challengers. The venerable off-road crawler platform is incredibly capable out of the box and infinitely customizable, which makes it the preferred truck for custom builds and bashing, as well as competition. For quite some time now, we wondered how Traxxas could top the TRX-4. We recently found out—and it wasn’t what we were expecting.
Instead of going bigger, Traxxas instead did the opposite. They shrunk it. TRX-4M is a 1/18-scale version of the brand’s full-size 1/10-scale crawler. In keeping with recent RC trends, where smaller RCs are becoming more popular, Traxxas had the foresight to develop, from ground up, an all-new 1/18-scale crawler.
We quickly…