I have had a Hyper PBS and it was a good buggy. It is heavy and like all of the ofnas it pretty much just beats threw the bumps on the tracks. It was easy to drive because aside from the jammin buggies the ofnas do always have understeer to keep the rear from sliding out making it very easy to predict and drive (of corse depending on your setup). I just got a kyosho MP777 and it is 100% better out of the box. I do have a looser driving style and the kyosho have a whole lot of steering to fit that. The kyosho mp777 was a full pound lighter than my hyper 7 and you can deffintly feel it on the track. It floats over the bumps and a lot of the time you don't even notice the bumps being there compaired to the ofna you feel every one of them. The suspension arms are also longer to give you a lot more leverage from the wheel aiding in how smooth the buggy handles the rougher spots on the track. If you don't like a hand full of steering than get an SP2 because they moved the engine back to put more weight on the rear of the buggy giving you more rear traction and slowing the normally quick oversteer that the mp777 and kyosho sp1 has. The hyper was a great buggy but you might feel limited by it if you ever get into more serious highly competative racing. It all depends on your driving style really. If you get ANY rtr ofna don't even bother running with the stock radio or servos. Pretty much any radio is better than the one that comes in all of ofnas rtr buggies. I run a JR XS3 which is a very good radio for $200. You never need to worry about conflicting channels because all of them are programed right into the radio and if your on a test and tune day by yourself there is a lap counter on the radio. Everytime you cross a certain point on the track there is a button you hit with your thumb that will top that lap and start counting the next. When you finish you can scroll back threw and you can run up to 50 recorded laps. I run futaba servos because they are deffinatly the most reliable servos you can buy. I have ran JR servos and especially the JR590 servo i used for the steering would just loose torque after so much abuse from racing. I have NEVER had to replace a futaba servo for any reason as long as you use it correctly. (example: don't use a standard throttle servo for steering ). I run the futaba 3010 for throttle and you can go to a higher torque servo if you need some more pull for the brakes and 3305 metal gear high torque for the steering.