Breakdown of Types of Scalextric Cars

Scalextric produce a range of cars for their range of Scalextric sets, whether you have a drift set or the new digital set there is a is a wide range of manufacturers available for your choice.

Scalextric have produced a range of vehicles that are easily compatible with analogue and digital sets with their digital plug ready (DPR) chassis, the cleverly engineered chassis have a small trap door located on the underside of the car secured with one small grub screw. You can simply fit a digital plug C8515 in about 1 minute. Digitally fitted cars can operate on analogue and digital tracks without and compatibility problems. Not all vehicles can be converted to digital such as some drift cars, also four wheel drive cars can be problematic to convert due to the chip having to be placed at the rear of the as the motor in this design is fitted at the front that allows the realistic characteristics of a rally car. You will have to extend the wires to allow them to run down the channel on the side there the four wheel drive band runs from front to back of the vehicle. You will have to use a digital chip either a saloon car chip C7006 or the F1 chip c7005. These chips require some solder work to fit them to any older cars or some of the non DPR digital plug fitted. Mounting slats are generally fitted to the chassis of the non DPR cars and the chip will simply fit between the mounts to hold the chip safely in position.

As mentioned before Scalextric cars produce a rally range, they car skid more in the corners than standard cars. This is due to the front mounted motor, most of the power is sent to the front wheels and this helps pull the vehicle around your track allowing the rear tyres to skid.

The drift range act in a similar nature as the rally cars with the rear wheels having very little grip, they can drive in both directions around you track with a clever guide blade set up. They are created this way to test your skill with the controller to try and drift the cars around the corners on you layout.

The last type of Scalextric cars is the standard vehicle, these all have the new easy fit guide blade that simply slide on and off when required. This means no more struggling to fit braids and trying to secure then with fiddly brass lugs. Other features are adjustable Magnatraction this is two slots cut in the chassis and these fit the standard magnet that Scalextric produce to allow preference for you driving style to help lower your lap times.

Not all of Scalextric vast range of cars have front and rear lights fitted as standard you will find that cheaper cars are normally designed for younger racers with a robust design and few parts that can be damaged are ideal for smaller children or for tracks that have points for crashes. Some more expensive cars are made in the robust style these are cars that have extra lights fitted as emergency vehicles or a siren.