Ok well here's my input. I have the evader... only ran about a quart of fuel through it so far... but i'll tell you this.. its got a LOT of acceleration. Too much i think. When i have it tuned properly (usually about 1.5 turns out) you touch the throttle and the front-end jumps up into the air! The battery box is virtually a wheelie bar. (it no longer has 90 degree corners ive scraped it so much). I did NOT think this was going to happen. I had the body off when it happened.. the thing went over backwards and flipped for a loooong distance. Then the controls stopped working. All that happened was a battery popped out (thank goodness for the throttle return spring). Nothin broke tho! All this talk about breaking evaders all the time.. i swear i think something is wrong with mine because i can't get it to break no matter what i do to it. All in all i think its great. 1-year warranty on platic parts, 2-year warranty on engine and that INCLUDES new piston's and sleeves when they wear out! Just send in the motor and they do it for ya for the first 2 years! The ONLY gripe i have about the car is that it is VERY hard to control in dirt... just too much torque in the engine.. makes it very squerlly because you touch the throttle when in dirt and it breaks traction easily. You have to ease onto the throttle and slowly get on it... which makes it quite tough when comming out of a turn.. give it the go and it wants to spin the tires and come around.

Also i just wish it had some more top-end.. its all acceleration and the top-end is somewhere at 40 im judging. Everyone says ohhh yeah your first nitro will have more power than you know what to do with. Well... yeah its quick.. but i want 50mph now lol. But the wheelies are cool!!!

And about the x-cellerator.. yes it can do 50 out of the box. And about people racing it... isnt its engine also a .18 like the evader? Everyone says the vader isnt race legal but really.. is the x-c?



Since your lookin for grass and whatnot... i'd go evader.. like i said it has lots of torque which is really what you want for bashing and going through thick grass and sand.. snow.. all that kinda stuff.