What motor do you recommend? (Was hoping this would be one of the 10 questions you answered). Gonna preorder one today from my LHS or Cardinal... EDIT: Pre-ordered from Cardinal!!! So stoked!!!

Excellent video! Loving this series so much.

Good info in the video! I like the behind the scenes info. It’s very cool that you were able to get in on the kick-off of the Re-Re. I think I was getting out of Baja’s as you were getting into them around 2011/2012. I’ve since picked up a Re-Re flux and started digging in on the build. I haven’t touched a Baja since I got out of them, so I have to dust off the cobwebs and try to remember the platform.

Can't wait to order. Bought my Baja in 2013, has been rebuilt 3 times and then I retired her. Now I can have 2. This is awesome!!

We need more nitros, as well

Cool video buddy! It's not my thing but answered a few of those forever cycled questions!

Cheers boiz ! Man i really like those kind of video, short , full of useful information.. only downside is the fact that now i need one of those ! Kit version seems so nice to build !

Excellent video brother!👍👍👍👍

I always loved the Baja. If I find a place to drive one, I see this in my future.

This was my grail when I was a kid, now here I am at 27 getting back into RC and the Baja has returned to shelves. I'm gonna try everything in my power to get a Flux version of this buggy. I would love to restart my channel next year with one of these haha.

Awesome video again.

I was just about to rebuild my second with rovan parts then I heard about the proper rerelease. I love my SS and can't wait to have 2 runners.

Cool vid, good answers.

Simple answer to no10 is YES. I have 4 bajas at the moment yes rovan, king motors are alot cheaper but the quality difference in the HPI baja is second to none. It's silly to think about it but you can feel the quality difference just by touching them.

It'll be badass if hpi releases the 5MT monster truck kit! Gas and electric kit!

Great video KPop! Cheers to beers 🍺🍺

So happy it's back . 🏁🏁🏁🏁. Thanks for the info!!! I live at the beach,so hopefully be able to get paddles. Also I can't decide on gas or electric. I do ride two stroke dirtbikes.

I want the 5t to come back so bad thank you for this video!

Might go for an electric one. I've got two gas one's (original and a rovan) and have wondered about an electric one 🤔

Lots of aftermarket support for the baja. Sadly alot of the original guys who were making aftermarket stuff the the hpi have slowly faded away . Hopefully with the hpi coming back they will start making parts again . Good thing i stocked up on parts from ddm . Now I just need 2 kits one to build and one to restore my old school baja

I am curious are you going to try and start racing this Baja like the old days? Loved all the videos you made back then!

Your so cool keep popin

Get the Rovan, just got mine and it's a beast, for 420 almost err it is amazing

I still have my 5B SS. First thing I broke was a front arm and bulkhead. Bent the up turn on the chassis a little too. Not too hard of a crash. Fixed that and added a front chassis doubbler. Then I broke the "tuned pipe" it came with. The one that tucks behind the motor. Went to a can muffler then to a Victory muffled tuned pipe. That is still on but the front hanger is sorta broke. I have installed more upgrades over time but not from breakage. It's been a pretty tough rig. I stopped driving it due to a motor cut out issue. tracked it down to one of the "upgrades" I did. some kind of brass high flow fuel fitting for the tank. It was sucking in air on the fuel feed side. It's been so long now since I've run it the RX battery is bad and the front tires are rotten.

That’s extremely sad that the 5t and 5sc might not be coming back….I was really hopeful

Shout out to Cardinal racing for being the first to accept pre-orders🤙😎

when it comes to things that will most likely break. Ive had these 1/5s electric and nitro. on a the baja platform, first thing that will break is the rear upper link, they break pretty easily and most people change them to aluminum. the second most likely thing to break is the drive shaft pins as I've broken a couple my self and the last thing is probably the clutch to wear out if you are racing it or you are hard on the throttle.

If HPI releases an electric version of the RS4 super nitro I'll be all over it...

Wish i could buy it right now, specially the flux/electric version

I have a brand new Baja SS kit ,from what ,5years ago? .. still sitting in my living room never used, so glad I can now buy another one and beat the tar out of it, and get parts I guess.... you're all about the 5B so.. subscribed. 👍

Man that sucks they aren't coming back with the 5t or 5sc I love my 5t and never got the SC but would buy it for sure if they come back

So where did rovan come from? They call there terminator 5th scale a baja 5t, so also about the only place I can get replacement bodies for my hpi 5t

I got my Gas SBK for £679($833.62). A massive saving of £95.99($117.85). It's the first RC car that I've ever bought.

Hopefully you got an esp ported 34cc from ddm lol. Once i went ported theres no way i could rip around stock again. Good pipe also adds insane amounts of power but they are also ridiculously loud. But for me i love the firework crackles at idle and insane power of my esp 34 with olimat tsk-b pipe.

do we know how long this will be sold for? the og baja stopped being sold for a while and its gonna take me a year to save up for all the stuff i want for when i go to order mine. i really hope it will still be in stock by then.

taylor rc is the way to go

Do you know if they will come out with a SS version with all the upgraded metal parts?

I love the hpi baja.. I have 2 of them so dont get me wrong but I believe the kracken vesla will just destroy the baja on and off track.. I am however curious to see how many thousands of dollars it will take me to build a full race vesla vs my full race baja..glad to see them back tho.. I need parts..lol

Always liked the Baja when I was a kid and now that I earn my own money, I might get one. Would love to go for a gas one, but I dont know where I can run it. How loud is a gas 1/5 vs a 1/8 nitro?

Show ranques carros 🏎🚗🚙🚘❤🤩🥰👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻 baja 🥰💪🏼

Do they come with engines

I guess I either wait for HPI to retool the 5t or pass on these, I always wanted the Baja Bug but never could afford it, stadium trucks would be my other choice

what would be the perfect electric motor and gearing for it? Don't wanna over power it and break some other stuff :)

I would like to see the 5sc roller for electric set up

When the manufacturers assemble rc cars and bolt everything together how are they able to not mark any of the bolts when tightening everything down? As soon as I need to replace something and use my tools they will mark the the nuts and I use expensive rc tools?when one buys a brand new rc all the nuts & bolts etc do not have a mark on them. How it that possible? Thanks

5t is like going to the moon we cannot go,back we lost the technology

Do they have strong part support?

The biggest problem with the original baja was that it was an un-muffled weed-whacker...wanted a quiet and more powerful brushless system? Well you just had to wait...for clones to come out, cheap enough that you didn't mind throwing away the engine and buying an additional $600 worth of powertrain. The new flux kits being available are a massive game changer. A sub-$800 roller, ready for motor and electronics, makes this competitive with even-smaller-sized rollers from Arrma/Horizon. Move this release 5 years into the past, the RC world might've been completely different. Instead, I'm the only person in our group with a baja, and it's a brushless-converted clone...not to spite HPI, but because that was what was available. Really hope the 5b flux does well.

they could of updated the rear tires with a way better tread which actually grips

so looks like you have to buy an entire new Baja platform for the electric version

Hpi says they lost the molds, but Rovan has clones of their original Short course (and Truck) bodies. Even Probodies has an unbreakable version. How hard is it really to make a reverse mold from a shell that was already made using a reverse mold

All plastic parts with bearings wil get hot. Melt and breakdown. So those parts needs to be alu.

Don't forget about outerwear covers for the air filter to keep dirt out. Same as shock covers, and we all know how " cheap " shocks are 💸

Tune pipe !! ....melt everything then upgrades!!

🤘y'all have a badass day🤘🍻🤘

HPI COME OUT WITH A 4WD HPI BAJA MONEY IN THE BANK !!

I’m over here trying to decide if it’s worth the price difference to buy a hpi vs the king motors cars we’ve been using and been happy with as the donor considering we use so little of the original car in dirt oval

I think thw rovan baja is faster and the clutch carrier on the clone is of metal

Well Let’s show some love!, Who wants a 5t body?.

Plot twist. The HPI Baja is a 1/5th scale Ultima Mid. Compare the two.

I've had B5 clone made by roven It his head the c*** kicked out of it for about 4 years no and the only thing I replaced was the transmission... I recently have done a bunch of upgbabes but it's been pretty Is reliable The one thing I can say about them get a new radio for it do not use the 1 that it comes with they are very cheap and you don't have the range

WELL I HAVE A ROVAN 305A 30.5cc and for more then 250$ less it comes with an engine that has a race tuned pipe on it and im breaking every thing but i took a year off so im learning how to drive again n its been a while since i had a 1/5 scale the one i had was the turnigy trailblazer the green n black 4wd buggy n a gangster with the hpi moved across the street from me n started talking s#$% n racing me n there was another older gang that rented the other side of the town house i lived in n they all were under the illusion that this new s%$^ talker could beat me n people were making bets n all that until finally he told the head gang guy he didnt have any cars that could beat any of my cars n not even my 1/16 ... he would watch me drive my cars in the middle of the night from his kids room window upstairs n reality hit him that he couldnt even beat my 1/16 ford fiesta by turnigy not the traxxas ken block but a clone n mine was faster then the traxxas .. every car i owned that had a rival car at traxxas that was fast i made mine faster then the traxxas ... i was a product specialist at hobbyking.com n i wanted a baja 5b or 5t but i didnt have 1500$ dollars for just 1 car oh the things the 5b would drag race n win like cr 250 in a dirt drag race n win or ninjas coming out of a park n muscle cars n it beat them all... n now i have the rovan n i love it but its a money pit lol n i cant wait to race a hpi or any other 5th scale n im almost decided on what motor ill put in it n what esc to replace the gas engine and im all ready looking for new engine to replace the stock one ... n the rovan isnt even trying to claim licensed hpi any thing nore are they in any competition with them cuz i asked about sponoring n they dont sponsor any one... as for me though ill be ready to race a hpi in the next month or so and im sure my set up will be more then enough to make easy work of it i took it to the track yesterday n for the first time trying any jumps i almost hit the 1st triple on my last run n i hit the double every time i tried .. but enough for now i love racing n these big 1/5 scale cars are a blast....

Why did they rerelese it with faulty plastic clutch cover cmon and I'm guilty of purchasing a rovan baja 5b about 4 years ago 😆 its flawless with all kinds of mods

Not bringing back the truck? I guess I'm not interested then. Never have been a buggy guy.

Australian price $1269

Super Thicc!

$750 fir just the kit !! Seems a bit pricey, specifically when you could buy an RTR version for around $1,000 back when Tower Hobbies had them. I want one but $700-$800 for just the kit……..

Will never come close to a losi 5ive t

people gonna hate but as an owner of an original legit hpi baja 5bss kit i can tell you it was trash, shock bodies, tires, arms, driveshafts all failed DURING the break in period as done PER manual ( yes i still have it but half of it has been upgraded to fix the failures). all my friends went king motor and rovan and NONE of them ever had the failures i had with the genuine baja. so i honestly wouldnt touch one of these re-releases especially considering the price stated in this video is MORE than i paid for my original one at DDM

Just buy a rovan end of discussion 🤣 it's rtr and you're gonna upgrade it anyway but they're solid I've beat the snot out of a few and haven't broken anything

749.99 FOR A KIT NO MTR /ENG OR ELC UM I DONT KNOW?? $$$ REALLY WHATS BETTER ABOUT IT??? I SEE NOTHING FROM HPI, SORRY BUT HPI NEEDS A BETTER VENDORS /INVESTORS!! BE COOL IF HPI CAME OUT WITH A 4WD BAJA THE PAST AS BEEN PLAYED OUT ALREADY! I SEE NOTHING NEW OR BETTER ABOUT IT.

This thing is not worth the money, no disrespect to HPI but the clones are sourced with the same parts if not better. While HPI has been dead, Rovan and King Motor have still developed the platform and come out with upgrades. Now you can get a RTR with a 30.5cc for $500, aluminum clutch housing out of the box, stronger wheels, and much stronger arms. And these clones have had these "new HPI" upgraded driveshafts for years. Why spend the extra $250 for a roller that doesn't even come with any electronics?? Is the fascination just because it says HPI on the box and a few of the parts?

1/8 arrma price for baja 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦🏽‍♂️. A good engine will cost you 6-700. Then the overpriced 750 for kit. Easy 1500 in the kit on low end. Just wait for losi 5b to come in. Much better.

It's very over priced for Europe.. I buy baja 5b 2.0 RTR before 7yrs for 850 euro

I don't get it. I'm into 1/10, and I can't stand the noise tiny gas motors make. I suppose the electric one could be fun, but look at it. There's no imagination there, for me. It looks incredibly dull, unfinished and lazy. Yall have fun tho! 👍 🤪

First off, that’s a straight lie on the plastics for the clones. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. That’s a rovan 9mm cv axle you showed on the new one btw. They are made in the same area, China, different tooling but same materials. The clones are way way better for the price and even come with necessary aluminum upgrades. Mine is 5 years old, hardly any issues. Don’t spew lies man. Only complete idiots are going to pay $750 for a car that will have to be upgraded straight out of the box to bash hard with. But you know, common sense is not everyone’s strong suite.

dont buy hpi overpriced crap, cheapest rovan baja is best option

PhatDad Dog Bones is what HPI copied for this Repop.