Thanks for the suggestion. Luckily my LHS is crap so I'm going to go to topspeedtoys now by default.

Now I just need to convince the pants in the family to fork over some repair money. :-)

I drive a Tornado XP because I heard it was a good starter car.

Finally I see on Topspeedtoys 2 sets one for japanese and one of taiwanese. Is this where the motor was made and how do I tell?

Thanks in advance