ORIGINAL: Kemo
ORIGINAL: MrN8
ORIGINAL: chrobar
If your not gonna be racing, the traxxas nitro sport or rustler are great beginner trucks.
As someone who's not a beginner and owns a Rustler, I'd say look elsewhere.
Nitro sport and rustlers are terrible to start out with. After having both of them driven, i'd pick up a tower hobbies ST-15 before I'd go traxxas. Let me start with all the weaknesses on the rusty/sport:
Weak shocks, and they are common to leak
< LOLOLOL
cheap driveshafts. they always break or fall apart.
<LOLOL again.. 20+ gallons on the SAME ones.. all ran with 2.5s!
Extremely finicky engine. terrible engine for a new person to the hobby.
if you can't tune a 2.5 your plain retarded. 2.5 is the EASIET motor in the WORLD to tune! they run with any tune!
Radio gear is way below par of today's RTR vehicles.
so? it works..
Transmission is weak. You'll find that the gears tend to separate from where they are supposed to be. thus ending up with a chipped gear in the tranny.
ROFL! 20+gallons again, ON FACTORY TRANNY< that means ALL stock gears.. DIFF and all!!
Suspension arms are of a cheap quality plastic.
LOL
And thats just a small list of things that need to be improved. For the price you pay to get one of these, its ridiculous. For the "quality" that the rustler is, you SHOULD be able to buy a nitro rustler at 150-200 bucks. But, traxxas would rather disagree.