FMS FCX24m: it's Not an FCX24! 

This 1981 Range Rover model has a distinct body shape that can be better appreciated without the oversize roof rack I think. To my mind, it and those silly size sand ladders, add more weight than realism. Simply remove three screws, accessible from above. The two beneath the "LANDROVER" stickers, on top of those spare wheel covers, are attached to unsightly horns on top of the roof. I suppose, one could disguise these to look like flashing light units, by popping little round domes over them, you know, coloured pill halves or something, but I'm never going to refit that roof rack and so, I ground the stubs down. The Range Rover's character is, like most cars, defined by it's front. Happily, that bull bar masking it, also unscrews easily and without leaving any unsightly fixing points. Yes, I know, it's supposed to be a Camel Trophy / seriously off road vehicle, ie it's not meant to look like an on-road Range Rover, but that is what I'm trying to approximate. So, as with too many hobby grade remote controlled trail-cars and almost all crawlers, this Range Rover, to my eyes, has "Oh dear, clown shoes again !" comically oversized tyres that also protrude out of the sides. Shame the wheels look so good and the tyres grip surprisingly well too! Oh yeah, the nice foams soak up any mud and moisture when driving through puddles, quickly making the car's performance sluggish. My advice would be, to either waterproof the tyres or keep away from moisture. I fitted much more scale and smaller wheels and tyres to mine which revealed massive body holes where the original monster wheels were and a much too high riding body. I don't know how to make the wheel arches smaller and rounder, but, at least the tops of the shocks can be mounted one hole higher, which lowers the body a little. I also found the velcro holder under the front to be too high and fixed that by re-shaping it and it's peg sockets. Finally, the big Camel Trophy stickers came off. I wish I hadn't used acetone to dissolve the "RANGE ROVER" from the windows because it ate into the clear plastic, making it look like a frosted bathroom window. I have written really critically about this FMS Range Rover and yet, I LOVE playing with- and otherwise just looking at it. :) To sum up: What a fun car ! :)

I got one of these recently and I totally agree, really nice scale driver. The tip using the cable ties was a great bit of lateral thinking (Just did it to mine) 👍👍😊😊

I got a scx24 for my birthday which is my first real small scale crawler and I have already spent more on upgrades/mods than the thing is worth! Great fun little rig though.

What a rad little vehicle. So much for the price. We need some scale RCTNT stickers for the corners of our windscreens though please.

If i picked one it would be this one. Great job. Great Video.

Yep, very nice truck. Quick mod to steering, cut off bump stops on the axle, increase travel on the transmitter. Refrigerator foam liners are a perfect thickness and softer than the stock foams. Thank you for your videos.

Great look over of this truck, Craig!

It looks good, even though I’m not a Range Rover fan. It would be nice if a company got brave enough to release something different. Jeeps and land rovers have been done to death

I totally agree mate. A great little car with excellent performance. So small and so cute. Regarding weight distribution, just add a little weight to the front wheels and a little less to the rear ones and the car will go even better. The counter-rotating shaft solution is one of the best things they could have done. It completely eliminates body roll, especially on climbs. Adding lights is disarmingly easy. What more can I say, I love it!

Excellent review I’m not sure which one I’m getting yet but I don’t have a Range Rover so I’ll probably get that model. RC sizes are like shoes the sizes depending on brand are all different so a size 9 varies depending on brand. I’d like to see FMS come out with a 1:10 scale Range Rover or some kind of Camel Truck. Thanks for the look at it. 👍

Quite the impressive vehicle. I knew nothing of this truck before your review and I incorrectly assumed it was another FCX24 with a new body. I'm happy to be wrong. It's very well thought out new vehicle and FMS should be congratulated. I'm looking foreword to seeing how you personalize this. Also,I love your puppers chasing the Rover at the end. Mine does the exact same thing. Too much fun! Thanks a bunch!

Great looking rig. FMS sure are cranking out some nice stuff. Some of the best scale in the 24ths by far.

these are awesome 👌 i have all 4 ,discovery is my favourite 😃👍👍

Yuuup, getting the Defender 110 for my birthday next week, although I would like the upgrade options on the scx24 I prefer the smoother crawler action. Might just do heavier rim and bigger tire I saw on another video to keep the center of gravity low for the 110 body. Oh and ordered ton of cosmetic upgrades of aliexpress.

Great review, ordered the discovery a while ago. Hope it will be here for the holiday. Scale wise, probably more 1/20 though.

You've done another very good review. The majority of the reviews have been done of the Range Rover model. Everyone likes it as a great little trail truck. Tomley reviewed itand did some crawling with it and it was good, which is different from what most people found. He used a bigger battery which I didn't understand. This is very reasonably priced while other small scale crawlers with less features are more expensive.

If the list of RCs I want to buy for my collection wasn't already huge and varied, this would certainly find a spot in it! :)

It's cute! Could it be possible to modify it more to the "civilian" version, like your olde car? I have always liked how the rear tires articulate inside to the fenders (or whatever). It would be funny little sleeper with that much articulation and all. 😎

Traxxas take notice it’s a whole new RC 😂

Really great looking truck! But what about the 6 problems?! 😂

Bravo as you say 😉

awesome intro

fcx24 was really 1/20th or something, that's why fcx24M is smaller...it is bigger that Kyosho 1/24th though, which is spot on in scale...

Can confirm. FMS ship to Australia

fcx scx... M.. 4m... names are way too close. interesting how that happened. nice scale items though and look. The doggo was very excited too... nice to see

Would love to see reviews of hb toys 1001 series trucks vs rgt and the 6 problems.

I got the same one! LR RR I’d call it Fact :: India, Tata owns Jaguar Land Rover.

The dog is losing it over the scale interior. Just look at it! Can you see this?

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nice review, lots of interesting features. The first time I used mine indoors both gears in the rear diff broke into pieces, I am waiting for new ones, does anyone else have this issue ? take care eh!

Just to let you know I don't think you should be recommending RCAWD parts is there customer service has gone to rubbish and if you check reviews you will see that they are not answering complaints and not fulfilling orders have bought parts from them in the past and always found them good upgrade parts but just recently ordered a servo servo Mount and steering links they sent wrong servo Mount and steering links email them no response gave bad review on their site still no response so I checked reviews silly I know but 25% of people had same troubles as I did in fact one person didn't even get their parts😢