VIDEO: 3Z Scale Bulldog R/C Rider world's first rideable R/C car
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We're big fans of R/C cars here at Autoblog, but we obviously love actually driving vehicles, as well. 3Z Scale has what might be the marriage of our two passions with its Bulldog R/C Rider. The Bulldog is a 1/3 scale remote control vehicle that sports a stadium truck body, 110cc four-stroke engine, disc brakes, automatic transmission, independent suspension and aluminum wheels. You can pilot the big R/C all day long behind a 2.4 GHz radio transmitter, but when that gets old, the Bulldog converts into a rideable ATV of sorts. Unfortunately, as the video after the jump demonstrates, controlling the vehicle by remote is not possible when there's a rider on the back of the Bulldog. In that mode, the rider controls the vehicles with handlebars. Nevertheless, imagining the fun we could have with an R/C car that's 4' 2" long and weighs nearly 200 pounds makes the mind reel. And when we're done we can just ride the damn thing home! Follow the jump to watch the video and see the Bulldog operating in both modes.
Gallery: 3Z Scale Bulldog R/C Rider
[Source: 3Z Scale via Hobbymedia.it via BoingBoing]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
That One Person 8:03PM (3/12/2009)
Dumb!
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Alon 8:03PM (3/12/2009)
110 cc... not 1100 cc.
I'd get one if it was 1100 cc for sure.
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kdaviper 10:29PM (3/12/2009)
wouldnt 1100 cc have made it the higheset-displacement quad on the market?
Dan 9:19PM (3/12/2009)
I was gonna say...
superman211 12:35AM (3/13/2009)
Make one out of a Honda CBR engine and make it look like a F1 car. That would be too cool.
Catapult 8:11PM (3/12/2009)
Would Hamilton's F1 car not be the first rideable RC?
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abbas350 5:27AM (3/13/2009)
zing!
Parkerman 8:37PM (3/12/2009)
I dunno why.. it just sounds kinda sluggish.
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Galley 9:13PM (3/12/2009)
Why would a car need to be RC if you can ride on it and control it directly?
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Shadyman 10:27PM (3/12/2009)
It's an RC so you Don't have to be on it to drive it around.
Mel. R 10:34PM (3/12/2009)
So you can mess with your drunk friends and not cause a potentially lethal accident.
tankd0g 12:42AM (3/13/2009)
In case you're too lazy to walk over to it.
James 9:55PM (3/12/2009)
It just looks kinda stupid. It looks too big and bulky to be all that much fun as an RC car, and looks ridiculously small and tiny when converted for a rider.
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PJ 11:20PM (3/12/2009)
"Unfortunately, as the video after the jump demonstrates, controlling the vehicle by remote is not possible when there's a rider on the back of the Bulldog."
In other words, this is *not* the world's first rideable R/C car. It is either a) rideable or b) an R/C car.
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Level 11:21PM (3/12/2009)
if only I was a kid again, I would of loved to ride these then instead of those plastic electric Tonka's lol...
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geo.stewart 9:03AM (3/13/2009)
would have loved, HAVE, not of
stupid phonics
Level 12:45PM (3/13/2009)
Just when I thought people couldn't get any more anal you prove me wrong....correcting a small grammar error that didn't even take 3 seconds of thought to type plus being irrelevant to the subject at hand, and on Autoblog of all places????hahahahhahahhahaha
I take it u dont lik textng lol u must spend hours correcting them rofl
geo.stewart 1:19PM (3/13/2009)
well, I'm guessing then that "if I was a kid again" is a grammar error either as you dont seem to have gotten past that point in development.
but I see now. 4 letters are twice as hard to type as 2. and everyone should text no matter the environment.
Since I see so many folks using 'of' instead of 'have' in text lately as well as using the wrong homonyms, I do assume its a phonics thing and a pretty sad state that it is so widely accepted.
its a sad state that mediocrity is so accepted by today's yutes. ah well, the ramblings of a 30-something OF.
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OBTW: NRN, LTS
Tim 12:37AM (3/13/2009)
That is... what's the word I'm looking for...
Retarded.
Completely retarded.
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yakapo 12:38AM (3/13/2009)
I think a powerwheel Barbie ferrari would take it easily.
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