Well, with a little experience you will find the nitro drifter is the way to go. If you can tune a nitro, then theres no problems...
If you run the nitro WOT all the time then yea, xpect it to die fast. I havent had any problems in the last 3 months running my old kyosho spider mk2. The only thing that I need to do is replace the tires every now and then due to xtreme use... I Never have to re-tune it, as long as its running slobering rich and it dont stall, then its all good. Top speed isnt an issue... Yea, its greasy, yea you will get a little dirt on your hands, but that is the price to pay to have 100 times more fun, and IMO its worth every minute. If your worried bout getting dirty then stay with the e-drifters I guess...
Start with a (cheap) electric, then when your board with it and have more driving/drifting experience, go getta nitro and have both, like me!
My poor ta-03f hasnt seen the light of day since I got the spider running, lol.
