Carbon Fiber is strong, but it is not flexable and it is very un-forgiving. Do your homework and you'll see that just because it is carbon does not make it better even if carbon is stronger.

I personally am not in the market for an RC8, and I don't like to get buggies (or any other RC's) on the cutting edge of development. I would not discount all the failure's racking up, but I don't think the buggy is made of glass either. Something tells me there will be some "upgrade" parts in the near future that will make it more bomb proof even if it is at the sacrifice of increasing weight.

Time will tell if this is really a great buggy or not, but one thing is for sure it is not built to bash at all.