3D is aerobatics man... flying upside down and other silly stuff... do a google video search on Curtis Youngblood, the guy is bad!
not everythign has to be 3D, but for 100 bucks, I'm going with you should spend the money on real flight or something, besides, it's winter, you aren't going to fly much.. spend time on the sim, save money and go for something decent (t-rex or clone). The CX's are cool, and they can get you going on nose in/out hovering, but you can't fly them outside much and like they've been saying, it flies too easy and can get boring..
these are nothing like cars dude