HPI Performance Parts

In 1986 Tatsuro Watanabe began Hobby Products International (HPI) in Southern California. Initially producing car accessories like graphite parts for existing race cars, wheels for off-road and on-road vehicles and motors. HPI quickly grew the product range and eventually released the first car kit designed by HPI, the Super F1.

From the initial electric-powered car kits, the HPI product line expanded into fuel-powered RC with the Nitro RS4, off-road with the RS4 MT, small-scale RC with the Micro RS4 and eventually into bigger and bigger kits like the legendary Savage monster truck and Baja 1/5th scale buggy and truck series of vehicles.

In 2019, the HPI Racing brand changed ownership and the major shareholders are now the Scandinavian based Vestergaard Group.