New MotorWorks Car
 

Just stopped in Wal-Mart and found a new MW car. It comes in a square bubble(see pic) and has a bunch of extras with it.

1 set of knobby tires
1 set of rear slicks
1 nose cone
1 super charger
1 set of hub caps

and it all stores in a compartment in the charger base.

The charger base is huge 5"L x 3"W x 1-1/2"D and takes 3 AA batts.

The controler is tiny 2-1/4"W x 2-1/2"L x 1"D and takes 3 AAA

The body kinda looks like a Dodge Charger with a blower sticking out of the hood

are they still 15bucks? hows the steering? is the motor swappable?

I've gotta get one!!!!

EDIT:
If I can't find them again today, will someone hook me up?

man someones gona have to start a 12step group for us.

hogjowlz

it was $13.88

Motor is hard wired and you can't remove the axle unless you pull the wheels off (no bottom access like the old ones)

Steering is ok same set-up as the old ones (2 magnets and a center coil)

the inside

That blower makes it all worth while... :p if not the blower then the knobbies, that's just too cool. So hows the range on it, telescopic and 3AAA's gotta mean something?!

Truthfully, if the MotorWorks motors were exchangeable and they started putting out hop-ups, Bits/Sizers/Zips would have their best competitor yet. I loved the old ones and i'm going really LOVE the new ones.

kwikbb

I just tried out the range in my apartment hallway it went about 60ft before it died. The antane is 9" and it comes with a extar super charger so you can swap out the blower

Hate to bump but,

it's a 49MHz and I just tried it with my ZZ and my Bit

both got about 50ft range but the foward and reverse buttons are backward on the Bit

Dutch, what part of WalMart did you find them? Were they with the HotWheels and other R/C's or in a special area? Were they hanging up or on a shelf?

Stidex

The were on a shelf with all the R/C stuff.

Think I got the frist 1 one :-) they had about 30 of them

Holy Crap! On 2 counts... number 1; that's some sick range and number 2; I just realized what the car looks like, I think it's knock-off of 'The Last of the V-8's' you know the one from Mad Max and The Road Warrior... the grey headlight covers give it away!

Cool clone.

Can you post some closeup pics of the tires that came with the set? And are the tires interchangeable with a Bit chassis?

NoPropMan


Ok here is a pic of the knobbies, They will fit on bit rims.
The stanard tires and the extra drag silcks will not work, there to fat and rub on the chassie

Knobbie----------Standard MW tire


Bit Tire------------MW Drag Silck

knobbie profile

Wow! Thanks for the pics.

I'd be interested in the performance of those knobbies on an unmodified Bit.

i just went to my local wally world and they fanally have the motor works cars, i dint get one becouse i want to know if the motor is able to be replaced with any other motors.i heard that the motor works cars are fast and have great range and at the price ill get one anyways somtime soon.but can somone answer this question and how would you put a reguar engine from a bit or zip into one of these cars.

My crappy walmart still has the old ones.

Question for ya, Dutch
 

I just picked one of those up... it's pretty cool. Do you figure that charger should work for Bit/MS cars? I removed the front tabs from the charger base so that my MS car could make contact, but the charger would not turn on. I wonder if there is a simple fix, or if I should try the charger mount from a MS controller. I like the Motor Works base idea a lot and would like to make it work for my MS cars. If you have any ideas, I'm willing to hack up my Motor Works base to try them out.

Thanks,

Hue

Hue35

I just tried to charge a bit clone on the MW charger and it works,
But you have to make good contact on the charging contacts.

The Bit charger puts out 3 volts

The MW puts out 4.5 Volts

I'm not a battery expert but I think you my fry your battery after long term use

Does the bod fit Bit? that would rock!

Just drill a small hole in the top of the MW charger and run the wires from a Bit charge pad to the + and - on PCB

Did you have to modify the charger base to get it to work on the clone? Like, removing those front tabs?

Hey everyone, I actually just picked up the same car last night at Walmart.
Runs nice, motors a lil' loud, overall a nice product! Which was surprising to me since I have come to associate the word Walmart to be synonomous wth crap.

Anyone who wants one in Philly area should go to the Franklin Millls Walmart, they had about 10 left.

Hey PWalk

I was just over at my local wally-mart and they had at least a 100 of these thing some in the R/C section and some on the EndCaps

Yeah same here in Philly, I was actually out buying Valentines cards, but some how I ended up in the R/C section and spotted them. There went an extra $14.

Did you see the other bodies available? All I saw was what looked like a celica. Wasn't too sure.

Mine is Dodge Charger ??? they have the celica a small truck and some sort of race car. I also noticed that some of them have clear orange or yellow hoods and or roofs on them

I just picked up one of these new Motorworks cars. I found a truck, they had orange and purple ones. I have been looking for a truck. They actually run pretty good, cool.

can you post pictures of the truck
body please?

Here it is.

lol wtf is that supposed to be.. but i like the rims.. may be worth it.. ill have to check them out.

Thanks for the pics of the truck. I love the body and the RIMS. The decals need some help. But, all-in-all it looks like the MotorWorks is still the #1 clone.

does anyone know if they sell those at canadian wal marts? i've already been shafted by rat shack not releasing zipzaps in canada and microsizers arent here either. i have a bit but i wanna get a motorworks too if they're available here. anyone know if they are? i live in toronto.

Very Nice!
 

Hello All, I currently have 2 of the old Motor Works and 7 Shen's, I like the MW separate charger which I modded with a Walmart transformer, they aren't quite as fast as my Shens or run quite as long but they drive much smoother. I wish they would put these out on more frequencies. From what I've heard because of their short range they the US restrictions on the Bit/Clone freqs don't apply but I guess they haven't figured this out yet. My local Walmart doesn't have these yet, but I've got 2 more 20 minutes away so I'll have to try those. Regards, Szandor

hey dutch! ive been looking through these pictures again, and i noticed that in the one where youve taken the motorworks car apart (the motor and the chip are exposed), there is a half-finished ZZ pickup in the background. what truck is it? where did the body come from? it looks great so far!

ugh


Yes that is a half finished ZZ Truck, I got a 3 pack of pull-back
4 x 4's at Wal-Mart the were called Peterson ???? something in the Hot Wheels section cost was $6.00

motorworks
 

I bought a motorworks a while back and I thought it was terrible. It died after like 5 days (motor burn out) and the turning radius was far to large to race with. At least it couldn't turn on my track... Now my panther clone on the other hand is fun. The motor that came with it doesn't have enough torque but I can fix that. Range is better than the bits. The panther was only $10 at the shady gas station across the street.

i thought the motorworks cars were duel cell from the get go.. like the nakamichi racers..

limited edition
 

the motor works rc I bought a few days ago has a sticker on the case that says limited edition. there isnt anything diffrent I can tell about these than one without the L.E. sticker. does anyone know the reason it has this?