RE: please help me pick my first truck, and im serious!
The Tnx is a great basher, easy to tune and rugged, I love mine. I love to hillclimb it, and bash it. It handles better than my savage. i do like the savage also but am more partial to the handling of the TNX.
The only difference in advantage or disadvantage would be parts if you buy parts from your local hobby shop. You will most likely have to mail order most parts for the TNX, but the savage parts will be more readily available for the savage at you local hobby shop. My local hobby shop is like 60 mi one way so I do all mail order.