Engine types

These are the engine types present in Re-Volt, known as Class in the Car selection screen and frequently misunderstanded as Rating. Classes are classifications in Re-Volt which describes a motor type or fuel/power of certain R/C car. They do not affect the cars' driving abilities, but make them produce different engine sounds during the race. Also, Electric-powered cars tend to be mostly from the Rookie and Amateur ratings, while Glow-powered cars are typically the higher-ranked cars. The classes seen in the Car selection screen are Electric, Glow and Special, but there is also the engine class of the Clockwork which uses an unique engine sound (clockwrk.wav), even if in the car selection screen and parameters of the car were set/displayed as an electric one.

Types[]

Electric[]

Like real-life electric motors, this engine type is powered by batteries and produces a hiss sound (wavs\electric.wav). It's used by more than half of the cars in the game. Almost all the cars in the Rookie and Amateur ratings use this engine type, though there are also two Electric cars each in the Advanced and Semi-Pro ratings.

Glow[]

Glow refers to a special kind of fuel made for internal combustion engines used in R/C cars. Also known as Gasoline or Petrol, the fuel is made from a mixture of methanol, nitromethane and petroleum oil. Glow is generally more powerful than Electric, enabling Glow cars to reach higher speeds, as in real-life. This engine type is first introduced in the Amateur rating, and most cars in the higher ratings also use Glow.

Special[]

This type describes a range of cars that do not fit into either of the above. It was set for Probe UFO and also attributed to Trolley. Even though Probe UFO is the only car able to produce the special engine sound (wavs\ufo.wav), any other car set to this class produces the glow sound instead (wavs\petrol.wav). Evil Toyeca is another car that has the special engine attributed to it.

Clockwork[]

In theory, it works as a real Clockwork motor. This is an unlisted type in the game, but has its own sound (wavs\clockwrk.wav). For some reason, the only car able to produce this sound is the Clockwork of the Clockwork Carnage, while the rest of the clockworks produces the default electric sound.