The thing I liked most about the hyper 8 was how its overall handling was at any speed on any surface. I've noticed unless you have a fairly loose setup all of these buggies will lose a lot of steering at higher speeds. The hyper 8 keeps a lot of its steering even at high speeds without getting the rear end loose much at all. Even with all of that steering at high speeds it doesn't oversteer or act twitchy at low speed cornering. As far as I'm concerened that is a huge achievment because with the buggies I've driven its been more of a compermise between high speed and low speed handling. It might not help you run much faster but it sure as hell is nicer to drive. The suspension will also take a wide range of track surfaces without having to change the setup. It takes the big bumps extremly well but with the same fairly soft setup it still stayed very stable on a hard packed nearly blue groove track. It did push on the hard packed track but that could easily be fixed with some fine adjustments... the point is it didn't feel at all sloppy like most other buggies would with a soft setup on a smooth track.

Also the adjustability of this buggy is great. They took ideas from XRays adjustments which you just can't beat. The bushings in the front to easily change your caster adjustment which makes a pretty big difference in the handling. Unlike having to change out entire parts to change caster like on most other c-hub buggies and with pivot ball suspension its heavy and if you adjust your camber you need to re-adjust your toe afterwards so the hyper 8/XB8s c-hub setup is the way to go. Theres still pleanty more adjustments as well but you don't need to upgrade ANTHING on that buggy. You'll never need to upgrade shock towers, steering knuckles, servo trays, chassis, chassis braces, or anything else you might upgrade on a buggy because all of the parts are already top knotch.

Sure the buggy isn't winning a lot of races but its still the same basic design as all other buggies on the market and it will only go as fast as the driver can drive it. Even with the same basic design as other buggies it still has some great racing and development into it and well worth the $430. Personally I'd NEVER spend $750 on something like a mugen which isn't that special of a buggy at all in the first place especially when I can get a buggy like the hyper 8.