It would be really interesting to see and unbiased company or individual(s) come up with a testing procedure as an industry standard. Like automotive crash testing standards where ALL R/C companies are tested from high dollar to low dollar to have an accurate comparison. Like for trucks,Mt's,buggies,etc.. have a ten foot drop test,acceleration test, stability test, head on into a barrier test, I could think of many, all vehicles tested on the same platform at the same place by the same people and see if "you get what you pay for" really lives up to it's words. If you tested 10 vehicles from 10 different companies in the same environment, you may see that a "cheaper" vehicle may out perform a "top of the line" vehicle in these certain areas that may be important to a buyer. So now you have this "standard" that consumers are basing their purchases off of, now the companies would work towards improving these areas on their products and overall get a better product from everyone! People would still buy what they want or can afford and pick the areas that a vehicle did well in and the not so well may not be in areas they would run in and expect to not have a good turn out in those areas because it doesn't apply to them. Every R/C publication and from what I have seen, even forums do testing, but none are standardized or organized.

If that job became available....I'm in!!!