I truly enjoyed reading how all of us feel about what is out their,prices verses performance! Most of the time you do get, like you say, what you pay for. I myself love to compare apples to apples not apples to oranges, seems that's hard to do for some of us, I do agree with a lot of what you guys say, and a lot I do not agree. It all boils down to what are you going to do with a rig? it's a simple deal the manufacturers tell us, what they are built to take, a beating, bashing, running over curbs wide open, in dust so heavy you barley can see the car. All of em pride their products andclaime unheard of lies about speed about durability. Sales pitch... out the ying yang. If we believe that sales pitch then we are all in for a ride out our pocket book. Everybody believes that whatyoudrive is the best out their. You are what you drive, I've seen and lived it, your no gonna go out and buy a monster truck to go circle track racing with buggy's, your are not gonna buy a street racer to go drag racing and expect to win. It all boils down to what we love to do, some of us drive our vehicles like we would never drive our full size 4x4 but we cry when it breaks, and the word is out, this so and so is trash.We carefully don't tell the truth? that we either made a big mistake driving! Or we ran over a curb wide open to see if your $500.00 dollar 8Th or quarter scale monster truck would take the abuse. We need to be careful what we wish for and careful what we expect out of our cars. I'm very optomistic and love all the Rc stuff out their and I'll never bash a product because it cost less than what you all drive. What I drive is what I wanted with what I do.?!?!? Nuff said.