Buggies are more agile in the air, the can be manipulated in mid flight easily by throttle/brake. My Kanai 2 started cartwheeling at over 40 mph and didn't brake a thing. A stadium truck would have been almost totally shot, don't say otherwise because I speak from lots ands lots of experiance. I spend around $500 a month on this hobby and I now know it quite well. An MT would fair well only if it was a Savage. I modified my Savage in many ways and now I am happy with it so I'll keep a very long time. I don't really see any MTs beating the Savage for toughness.