In the RC community I hear alot of truths and non truths out there. Everyone has opinions about RC. That is fine. All company's trucks Traxxas's Tmaxx, Revos, Hpi's Savage, Duratrax, Losi's Lst"s all have there strengths and weaknesses. You get the point. There is a Hobby Shop in San Diego named Hobby101. (Hobby101.com) I went there to see if they sold Cen parts for my GST. The owner named Jewels (its a wierd name) bad mouthed my GST even calling it a piece of junk. He said out loud this hobby shop doesn't sell junk like Cen and XTM ! (I couldn't believe how brazen he was.) He went further and even said we kick out people from Cen onto the streets when Cen comes in this shop begging us to try to sell there stuff. Also saying they'll soon go out of business. Jewels RC shop mechanic named LEE said Cen was the biggest disaster in RC history. I even remember him saying you drive them once and Cen products fall apart. Here these cocky arrognant people were killing Cen's reputation in front of many customers almost preaching out loud negatively on and on and on. I turned around holding my GST and walked right out of that hobby shop never to come back. Telling many of my friends in the San Diego area to best avoid this Hobby Shop and there rip off prices. I found out later alot people I knew felt the same way I did about this shop. Of many stories I later found out one friend who I knew went in there to get his XTM Mammoth fixed, they told him we can't help you with this junk there not made to be fixed. Thats another person that I know that doesn't go to this shop. I myself own a Cen Fun Factor, NX, Genesis and GST and I can honestly say I've had nothing but good luck with them. My friends have Cen NX's and GST's and they love them more than there Revos and Lst's they've owned. This part I'm about to say sounds like I'm sticking up for Cen well I am. When someone trys to ruin a companys reputation by talking lies you hurt the owners, reps, designers and the people that put that product together. I know two people that said revos, mgts were junk , looking into it I found out they were beginners and both people had leaned out there engines killing them in just a few runs. That is understandable. (there beginners), but to hear it from a shop who claims there the best Shop there is, then Shame on them. Point is this if I was new to this hobby and listened to those idiots at that hobby101 shop I would of never have bought a Cen in the first place. Moral of the story is dont listen to people like this out there. Believe me Cen makes great products !