i don't really have anything against redcat. i mean, i bought their product because i hadn't heard of the.. i didn't some research, heard some good and some bad, so i figured why not, i should be able to do something with it. my friend's decided they wanted to get into this hobby, and it honestly felt like the right move, and was, for them to buy something cheap and learn how to drive them, break them, and fix them.. esp since the parts are impossible to find locally, it made them think about how the car works, and how to rig something to replace a broken part. whether its coat hangers, zip ties, rs4 parts, whatever we have laying around. that's really one of the major parts of the hobby that i enjoy.<div>
</div><div>but, i just feel like the redcat wasn't worth the money in upgrades and repairs. the rs4 mt is an odd design. i used to have a solid aluminum one. it was a brick, weighed as much too, but it never broke. plastic, yeah. that design is meant for the onroad cars, and the rally car. i loved my rally rs4 it was one of the most fun cars i've ever owned.</div><div>
</div><div>its just that when i tally up what i personally spent on my redcat, i feel as though it was a waste. over 100 bucks in just wheels and shocks, that really shouldn't have needed to have been replaced when they were. i wasn't looking for super high quality, just something that replaced what i had, because what i had broke very easily. the wheels on the vortex were esp bad, they literally broke every spoke. i kept epoxying the inside spokes together until i was literally putting epoxy on epoxy on epoxy to make it to the rim, and then the rims started breaking and i couldn't epoxy the tires to the epoxy lol...</div><div>
</div><div>the s30 has a better front suspension setup than the shockwave due to the very similar rs4 knuckles on the shockwave. at least the s30 uses dual arms. we were snapping pins and a arms like crazy though on that, and this was really just bashing on baseball fields and whatnot, nothing major and no major collisions that these broke under. the s30 that kept breaking the back drive shaft, also went through a few differential gears as well on the back. but it was all fluid moving, i don't know what was going on back there i couldn't figure it out.</div><div>
</div><div>but i don't want to say that redcat is bad, they're garbage.. that's not what i'm saying. what i'm saying is that for the money i spent on my redcat, i could have easily bought the revo 3.3 that i just did, or a slayer pro, or a savage, or a blitz, or whatever used, and it would just be a better experience because these are trucks designed for the actual sport, not designed to copy another design, cheaply. a copy of a copy of a copy etc.. becomes nothing like the original. that's what i picture redcat being. my onroad hpi rs4 .18 evo is awesome, i love driving that car. the only things i break on that are what i break crashing into my friends because i'm just an aggressive racer.  but the going rate for these like new  on craigslist is like 180 here in long island, and that's sooo much better than the lightning that redcat offers. so my main point here is that if you're going to buy a redcat, and you do know something about the hobby, my advice would be to go with a better car used than a redcat new. i was disappointed in redcat from my experience, i really did go into it with an open mind, and had higher hopes.</div>