Still wrong. It is simply no longer the case that you have to pay a fortune for a good nitro engine(talking 1/8 buggy racing here, THE class for nitro engines..)

Even RB is now producing in Taiwan.

You don't need a $400 Novarossi to race. A $200 Argus will do JUST FINE.

As for more RTR bashing MT's and other "fun" RC's, for 26's and 28's, LRP Spec 3 or Dynamite Big Red all day. NO probs..

I busted one of my LST2's out the other day. Broke it in over two years ago, and barely ran this year at all, and only very little last year.. Probably has max one gallon on it.. Have done ZERO maintenance to it other than sealing the backplate and carb throat at the beginning.. And it ran just great:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeBRnW1ct-c

I bought this engine when it was going for $130 at www.amainhobbies.com . It works GREAT with the stock Losi LST2/XXL pipe, and surely would too with a stock HPI polished on the Savage or MGT pipe or whatever.. You can break this engine in in five tanks and off you go. Cheap, tunes easily, great power. NO problem...

And to me and lots of other nitro fans it at least sounds cooler than any electric toy ever will, with three times or a hundred times or however much torque... Electrics are fine - run them if that's what you want. But when you start talking trash about it, be ready for the comments about them being like watching an action movie or NFL game on mute. Cuz to me that's what they're like. Seriously, ANYBODY, go to your local track and watch a nitro buggy race, then an electric race. Night and day levels of exhileration for me. Maybe not for everybody. But for LOTS of people I'm pretty sure the same applies.