RE: Price difference
Traxxas prob has more operational cost in advertising, employees, customer service, promotional, design, etc. They seem more well tested too. However Traxxas omits a lot of parts to give you "a great price" on the new basic Revo RTR. Take a look at all the hopups Traxxas offers for the Revo. Kinda makes you wonder why you gotta buy them seperatly while other manufactureres include them.You want the real deal get the multi million dollar Platinum revo.