I agree, the electric Stampede is a great truck, I had one for 2 years and loved it. I think the Nitro Evader problem isn't as much to do with the Nitro Evader as it is to do with your skills/patience with nitro vehicles. I guarantee that if you had bought a NITRO Stampede rather than an electric one, you would have made a thread saying you would never buy another Traxxas vehicle again.

I had a Nitro Stampede... lol, the N-Evader is a far better machine in everyway. You just can't compare electric and nitro in such a way, as nitro vehicles with always have more "problems" than electric vehicles, but those problems rarely have anything to do with the vehicle itself. It's usually typical nitro stuff, and depending on your experience/patience, you either identify the problem and fix it easily...

...or you go onto a forum and whine that your truck sucks.