Buggy: Nitromethanol-run RC cars patterned on road-hugging open-wheeled race cars. Truggy: Nitromethanol-run RC cars with greater ground clearance and, therefore, seen more as a truck than a car.

That new preference is driven in large part by Chinese government policy and incentives to encourage a shift from traditional gasoline-powered cars to electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.

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